We are a small studio building considered objects for the American mahjong table. Our debut collection of tiles, mats, racks and bags are in production and coming in 2026.
A Letter From the Founders
We started Set One Fifty Two because the sets we wanted didn't exist.
American Mahjong has had a moment lately, and we're glad for it — more women playing, more tables being set, more rooms with the sound of tiles in them. But the objects haven't kept up. The sets on the market today fall into one of three places: ultra-traditional sets that are inherited rather than purchased, mass-market sets in plastic and gimmick prints, or a recent wave of brands that solved the aesthetic problem by replacing the traditional iconography altogether with themed tiles that are challenging to read and play with.
None of it felt right. We didn't want a set that needed to be hidden when company came over. We didn't want one that erased the soul of the game. We wanted the modern equivalent of an heirloom — a set built like a piece of furniture, made to be lived with, designed for the way our homes actually look now. So we're building it.
Set One Fifty Two is a modern luxury American Mahjong brand. Cases, racks, mats and accessories designed in considered colorways and built in our family's creative studio. The traditional iconography stays: bams, dots, craks, winds, dragons. The world the game lives inside gets modernized.
— Julia & Lauren
On the Founders
Julia and Lauren are the founders of Set One Fifty Two. Julia spent her career in luxury and digital media at Goop and MasterClass. Lauren spent hers in production across gaming and tech at Zynga, Twitch, and Meta. Mahjong is both a luxury object and a great game and as founders we want a brand that exists at that intersection.
Why one fifty two
One hundred and fifty two is the count of tiles in an American mahjong set.
It is the suit tiles and the honor tiles, the flowers and the jokers, the wash and the build, the wait and the call. It is everything that arrives at the table when the table is set.
Mahjong is a Chinese game with more than a hundred and fifty years of continuous history. The iconography on every tile, the dragons, the winds, the suit characters and their forms belongs to that lineage. It is not a design language available to us. It is an inheritance held by others, faithfully copied forward by every set ever made.
The studio process
A patient workshop.
We design and produce within our family’s design studio and manufacturing house, which lets us choose materials and finishes that volume-first brands cannot. No middlemen. No minimums that compromise the work.
Materials we'd keep.
Cases lined with cloth that ages well. Resins chosen for sound as much as for weight. Hardware in solid metals, not plating. We test by living with th