Crowns, chips, and a checkered flag. That's Monaco inthree objects — and that's the Monaco Collection. The Monaco Collection takes those three threads — the monarchy, the casino, theGrand Prix — and weaves them through every tile in the set. Nothing sits on top asdecoration. The story runs all the way through. T H E D E S I G N Read the tiles.Every suit tells a piece of the story. C R A C K S Crowns of the Grimaldi Nine crowns for the longest-reigning royal house in Europe — a family that has heldthis coastline since 1297. Set on a Monaco red checker, the principality's own. B AM S Chips of Monte-Carlo Casino chips drawn straight from the Monte-Carlo gaming floor — where the house hashosted the world's high rollers since the 1860s, and where, by local law, citizens ofMonaco themselves are still forbidden to gamble. D O T S Bamboo on the Riviera Tradition meets place. The bamboo stays, the green stays — but the One Dot openswith a flamingo at the water's edge. A wink to Monaco's Mediterranean gardens and thelong, slow summer light of the Côte d'Azur. W I N D S Four landmarks North, East, West, South — rendered as the Prince's Palace, the Monte-Carlocoastline, Porte Saint-Antoine, and Sainte-Dévote, the patron saint of the principality.The compass points of Monaco itself.D R A G O N S The Grand Prix trio Two F1 cars and a checkered flag. The green and red dragons become the racingmachines that thunder through Monaco's streets every May — and the white dragontakes the form of the flag itself: the same checker that runs through every other tile inthe set. J O K E R The roulette wheel Of course. The single most recognizable object in Monte-Carlo, sitting in the wildestposition on the board. And tying it all together — a checkered flag running across the top and bottom of every single tile. T H E M O N A C O C O L L E C T I O NStart yourengines.We built Monaco for the customer who walks into your store knowing whatthey want — the one who's been on the Riviera, or wishes they had, orwatches every May with a glass of something cold in hand.Give them a set worth telling a story about.
