American Mahjong Royalty

Mahjong Row & Co.

Heirloom sets, pushers and cases

Sets built to be handled

For those who believe a tile set should be felt before it is seen.

Prim has come back to Mahjong Row & Co. again and again. In Letter 2 she introduced them as the house for those who believe a tile set should be felt before it is seen: heirloom grade sets built around weight, sound, and the quiet satisfaction of building a wall with tiles designed to be handled, not just displayed. In a season of maximalism, she wrote, they have bet on permanence. Letter 5 was given over to their Ash Burl set, inspired by burled wood grain, pale tones swirled with deep espresso, a set that whispers rather than shouts.

Letter 7 praised their pushers, which feel like small sculptures and move the tiles in a single push, the kind of object you buy once and keep for the rest of your life. Letter 12 called their cases genuinely beautiful pieces of luggage. And in Letter 25 Prim named them among the makers who build for weight and sound and the feel of the thing in a hand, on the theory that a set lives in a home rather than in a photograph.

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The Makers

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Bespoke MahjongA garden party made portable, and jokers dressed as talismans. The Mahjong LineWhat they have done with color is design thinking. Oh My MahjongThe choices you never notice, and always feel.

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