Maxi Queen – Optical

The Maxi Queen is the chess queen rendered as a sculptural statement — available in black-dominant or white-dominant finish, each crowned polyresin silhouette wrapped in a geometric op-art overlay that appears to shift depth as you move around it.

Optical is Baci Milano's answer to a single design question: what happens when you apply mid-century op-art discipline — strict monochrome, geometric exactitude, optical-illusion precision — to a form with cultural weight? The chess queen's profile, from regal crown to tapered body, becomes a canvas where pattern conceals, reveals, and flatters every angle differently. Designed at Casa Baci in Milan, it belongs to a tradition of Italian decorative work that earns attention without competing for colour.

At Maxi scale, the Queen carries enough heft to anchor a bookshelf as a functioning bookend, or to hold a corner of a console in a Dubai villa library or a design-forward hospitality interior. In rooms that treat décor as a collected art form, this is the piece that draws the eye and keeps it.

Pair the black and white colorways together for an immediate chess-game vignette on your shelf, or combine with the Maxi Horse Head for a full mid-game tableau.