Our love affair with the chess-inspired print started in our teens, when any emo and skater worth their salt owned a pair of classic Vans checkerboard slip-ons, but in the later 2010s the pattern ...

Potts notes that the checkerboard pattern is a prolific design that can be spotted everywhere from an imperial villa in Japan to a 1950s-style diner in American suburbia.

The checkerboard pattern has had a recent resurgence, but it arguably never went out of style (think: the everlasting elegance of checkered French chateau foyer floors, for example). Characterized ...

But this pattern is more than another passing trend in the Instagram algorithm. Long before any of this had ever occurred, I was introduced to the checkered way of life in my childhood home.