Vilac, specialist in wooden toys for over 80 years has dedicated a collection to the American artist Keith Haring. The balance game consists of 18 parts, which are stacked in competition, hand made in France by wood artisans.

Available from colette.

Details after the jump.

ChippewaFive know how to party.

They do it in style. They do it with their classy take on the beer pong table.

Custom designed and built Beer Pong Table. Exterior Surfaces are Poplar wood. Legs are dining quality cast iron. Body is seamless, free of any visible screws and/or nails. Wiring for light up Beer Pong Cup set up is completely internal and plugs into power source on bottom of leg. Triangles are red plexiglass and lit by long-lasting LED lights. Rear panels detach for maintenance. On/off switch is under-mounted. Clean, Cool, and one-of-a-kind.

Available here. More images available after the leap.

This is more revisionist classic design than true to life celebration, but nonetheless a nicely conceived product. Exclusive to Restoration Hardware, Vintage Edition Scrabble® is a handsomely produced version of the classic American word game. Invented in the 1930s by architect Alfred M. Butts and brought to mainstream America in 1948 by James Brunot, Scrabble® has since sold to over 100million people. The vintage edition clothes the game in a hard wood cabinet with die wood metal accents and includes embossed wooden tiles.

A full look at Vintage Edition Scrabble® after the jump.

There’s lots of fun stuff coming up with Art Basel Miami set to kick off in early December. This year there seems a good amount of art related product and off-kilter activity to compliment the main shows. “Bay to Basel” is a fine example.

San Francisco based designer game & fine art company, Tools of The Trade, is heading from the Bay to MIA for Art Basel. Tools of The Trade will be setting up a pop-up art gallery for the week featuring the fine art of some of today’s quickest rising art stars. The line up of artists include; Mike Giant, Ron English, Donny Miller, Tara McPherson, Buff Monster, Anthony Ausgang, Claw Money, Oliver Black, Mark Bode, Vaughn Bode & more. The opening party will be Friday, December 3rd from 8pm – 2am. The pop-up gallery, located at 153 N.W. 36th St. Miami, FL 33127, will also be open to the public December 2 – 5, 10am – 8pm daily.

Check out TOTT goods from Ron English, Mark Bode, Vaughn Bode, and Buff Monster after the jump.

Open through January 2, 2011, at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.

Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic is the first museum retrospective of award-winning author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick. Author of Can You See What I See? and co-creator of the I Spy book series loved by millions of children and adults around the world, Wick has a keen interest in puzzles, games, science and illusions. The exhibition will feature a selection of Wick’s early photographs, which provided a foundation for the artist’s interest in illusions. It will include several of the handcrafted, meticulously detailed installation models accompanied by his large-format color photographs that are the illustrations in his children’s books. Together they will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s creative process and a window into the puzzles and illusions for which he is so well known. The exhibition will include two models and photographs from Wick’s 2008 book, Can You See What I See on a Scary, Scary Night?, inspired in part by the Walters’ Chamber of Wonders, as well as the debut of models and photographs from his newest book, Treasure Ship.

Representative work from Wick after the jump.

This Wednesday, Bonhams Knightsbridge offers a sale of chess sets, games, and playing cards. The lots are enough to tickle my fancy for historic games and especially that of historic playing card design. A good number of rare books on chess are available as well. Highlights are certainly weird and wonderful chess sets. Few are actually weird, to be fair, but many exhibit the types of subtle design cues that continue to make chess sets so ripe for artistic exploration.

The auction begins at 12 GMT, Montpelier Street, London.

Above is lot number 64, a “St. George Pattern” boxwood and ebony chess set of the 19th-century and made in England.

For Keith Haring lovers Paul Smith is offering a new way of getting your fix of the New York artists colorful style. Produced by Vilac, the domino set includes a 28 pieces enclosed in a wooden box. Game rules (for those unfamiliar with dominos) are also included. (via Retro to Go).

More images of the domino set after the jump.