"A deck about the Tea Ceremony." The white plywood edition of the original Japan Deck by American contemporary artist Tom Sachs. Each card face features a photo of an original piece from his Tea Ceremony sculpture series. Limited run of 666 decks (supposedly sold out within hours of release on the Tom Sachs site store).

"American contemporary artist Tom Sachs continues to keep himself busy with a slew of product offerings. Having just debuted his first industrial furniture collection at Design Miami/ 2017, Sachs now offers something more compact in size — a “Japan Deck” plywood edition playing card set. Sporting Sachs’ signature deconstructed and craft-centric aesthetic, each of the casino-quality playing cards is made of plywood and features a Tom Sachs art piece from his Tea Ceremony series. The exterior box is also stylized with a plywood effect and features sketch-like laser cut typography." -Joanna Fu, HYPEBEAST

The idea was to show the deck of cards as it was a book, a book full of stories that it has lived, it is living and it will live itself but that it can tell anyway. In many magic routines it’s normal to use a story as play choreography… telling a story… telling it as a fair to read to children, in order to let the interlocutor go deep inside in the magic’s world. It’s the reason why the ace of spades has written “every deck tells a story”, because cards are the voice and the instrument magic uses to tell about itself… No one like ace of spades could tell it better than others. Oris… the magic’s mouth, one wizard… and their stories.