We have a games shop in the city, located in royal arcade Melbourne (http://www.gameshop.com.au/). We were working on Sunday and could not help noticing several hundred treasure hunters wearing marathon numbers pinned to their chest, wandering around Melbourne...a few of these folk came into the store and were asking if there were two men playing chess, and to figure out which one is winning!
We knew immediately and pointed to our sign, which is hanging in the front window and depicts Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes playing chess in an amazing lead light frame (looks especially great in the morning when the sun manages to stream through the arcade roof above Cocoa Black).
The actual leadlight window and design was the idea of the previous owners wife who came up with it in the middle of the night - the gave a few rough ideas to a designer (which happened to be her first design job...nice work) and walah, you have an iconic window that's as amazing as ever 30 years on.
So who's winning the chess game? Sherlock Holmes of course (as he reclines back with his pipe in mouth and takes a celebratory puff), hes just put Watson in Check mate!
We knew immediately and pointed to our sign, which is hanging in the front window and depicts Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes playing chess in an amazing lead light frame (looks especially great in the morning when the sun manages to stream through the arcade roof above Cocoa Black).
The actual leadlight window and design was the idea of the previous owners wife who came up with it in the middle of the night - the gave a few rough ideas to a designer (which happened to be her first design job...nice work) and walah, you have an iconic window that's as amazing as ever 30 years on.
So who's winning the chess game? Sherlock Holmes of course (as he reclines back with his pipe in mouth and takes a celebratory puff), hes just put Watson in Check mate!
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