Chessboard chic – and we’re not talking about the show-that-everybody’s-watching, The Queen’s Gambit. A mainstay in the world of interiors, chequerboard floors are as striking and as sophisticated as they come, having long been in the tiling hall of fame be it in the temples of the Ancient Egyptians, the entrance halls of the Britain and France’s grandest heritage homes, or even teamed with red leather banquettes in the diners of 1950s America.
