{"title":"Optical","description":"\u003cp\u003eOptical by Baci Milano is an encounter between elegance and surrealism — refined geometric forms where a strong black-and-white contrast evokes the interplay of a chessboard. The collection rescales two of the game's most iconic pieces, the Knight rendered as a horse head and the Queen, into sculptural objects in three sizes, each issued in black-dominant and white-dominant colourways. The language is op-art meets chess: rigorous two-dimensional patterns that, wrapped over a curved surface, hint at three-dimensional depth and read one way from the front, another from the side. Cast in durable polyresin with substantial weight, the larger pieces double as bookends, holding a row of design titles in place while making a statement. Collected in pairs — a black queen beside a white one, or a horse-head set framing a shelf — they stage a frozen chess match on a console. Bold, graphic and conversational, Optical is the design-led choice for a Dubai villa, a gallery-minded office, or a yacht interior built around striking monochrome.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"optical-midi-queen","title":"Midi Queen – Optical","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Midi Queen arrives on any surface like a chess player mid-game — quietly precise, immediately noticed. This mid-scale sculpture from Baci Milano's Optical collection renders the crowned silhouette of the chess queen in durable polyresin, its curved form wrapped in a strict black-and-white op-art grid that rewards a second look as much as the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOptical's design premise is a discipline: only black, only white, only geometry. The checkerboard pattern running across the Queen's curved body shifts as you move around it — flat from one angle, hinting at real depth from another. The visual game mirrors chess itself: strategic, layered, never entirely settled. Italian design meets mid-century op-art in a single sculptural object, conceived at Casa Baci in Milan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Dubai homes and hospitality spaces that lean toward bold, graphic aesthetics — contemporary villas, executive offices, design-forward hotel lobbies — the Midi Queen works as a focused accent within a larger shelf composition, or holds its own alone on a narrow console table. 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Sculpted in premium polyresin in two mirror-image colorways — black field with white op-art overlay, and white field with black — the pair logic is embedded in the design itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOp-art and chess collide in a collection that takes the iconic Knight silhouette and wraps it in geometric precision. The rigorous black-and-white pattern reads as flat from one angle, three-dimensional from another — a visual shift that mirrors the strategic depth of a chess game. Designed at Casa Baci in Milan, this is Italian decorative sculpture at its most graphically confident: no color, no compromise, only contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Dubai interiors with a contemporary art bias — the collector's villa, the executive office that doubles as a gallery, the superyacht salon where bold monochrome sculpture anchors the space — the Maxi Horse Head delivers visual authority without a word spoken. The horse-head silhouette also carries weight in Dubai's equestrian culture, reading simultaneously as chess Knight and tribute to the racing stables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePair the black-dominant and white-dominant versions as mirror bookends, or place one against an opposing character piece for a frozen chess-game vignette on the console.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baci Milano","offers":[{"title":"White","offer_id":41889890074742,"sku":"HOR2.OPT02","price":839.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black","offer_id":41889890041974,"sku":"HOR2.OPT01","price":839.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/5152\/3702\/files\/Maxi-Horse-Head-_-Optical-Amprio-Milano-13000765.png?v=1766499960"},{"product_id":"optical-magnum-horse-head","title":"Magnum Horse Head – Optical","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Magnum Horse Head is the defining statement of Baci Milano's Optical collection — a large-scale polyresin horse head sculpture that commands any interior with the discipline of chess and the intelligence of op-art. Available in two mirror colorways, black-dominant or white-dominant, it brings the sharp geometry of Italian design thinking to spaces built for visual impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOptical works from a single radical premise: two colors are enough. The collection's geometric patterns wrap the sculpted Knight silhouette, transforming a two-dimensional op-art grid into something that reads differently from every angle. Front-on, the pattern is rigorous; from the side, it shifts — much like the layers that reveal themselves in a chess game the longer you study it. Designed at Casa Baci in Milan, it lives somewhere between sculpture, board game, and a Bridget Riley canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Dubai interiors shaped by equestrian culture and a love of bold contemporary art, the Magnum Horse Head finds its place naturally — on an entryway console in a Gulf villa, anchoring a design-forward office, or punctuating the salon of a superyacht where black-and-white sculpture speaks its own design language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePair the black-dominant and white-dominant Magnum pieces as oversized bookends and the effect is a chess match frozen mid-game — a commanding vignette that anchors any shelf or console with purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baci Milano","offers":[{"title":"Black","offer_id":41889890107510,"sku":"HOR3.OPT01","price":1679.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"White","offer_id":41889890140278,"sku":"HOR3.OPT02","price":1679.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/5152\/3702\/files\/Magnum-Horse-Head-_-Optical-Amprio-Milano-13001588.png?v=1753272088"},{"product_id":"optical-magnum-queen","title":"Magnum Queen – Optical","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Magnum Queen is Baci Milano's most commanding presence in the Optical collection — the chess queen rendered as a large-format polyresin sculpture that brings the board's most powerful piece into the gallery of the home. Bold, monochrome, and unmistakably Italian in its design wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Optical collection lives at the intersection of op-art and chess strategy: rigorous black-and-white geometric patterns wrap the Queen's sculptural curves, shifting in visual weight as you move around the piece. What appears as a flat grid from one angle reveals surprising depth from another — a three-dimensional illusion drawn from the same conceptual playbook as Vasarely and Bridget Riley, realized at Casa Baci in Milan. The monochrome discipline here is not restraint; it is the quiet confidence of black and white against everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt Magnum scale, the Queen anchors a bookshelf in a design-forward Dubai villa, commands an executive's desk in a DIFC office, or holds court on a lobby console that treats décor as a collected art. Monochrome sculpture carries particular authority in interiors built around contrast — and this piece earns attention long after the first glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePair two Magnum Queens — black-dominant and white-dominant — as mirror bookends, or build a vertical composition with Maxi and Midi companions. 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Geometric grids map themselves to the curved horse-head form in patterns that play tricks on the eye: the same surface reads flat from one angle, three-dimensional from another. Rooted in mid-century op-art, this is Italian design sculpture with genuine visual intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Dubai's design-forward interiors, the Mini anchors shelf corners, desk edges, and console vignettes. 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