18 Unique and Beautiful Objets to Give This Year
For the design connoisseurs and aesthetes on your list, splurge on one of these gorgeous trinkets. From a vintage Tiffany salt box to a bong designed by L’amour Supreme, we’ve collected an array of beautiful items that will brighten any desk, wall, or coffee table. Click ahead to see them all.
*This article appears in the November 24, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
Tom Dixon Desk Set Includes tall and wide pen pots and a paper-clip tray, all carved out of aluminum blocks and plated in brass.
Desk Doodad Seattle-based Ladies and Gentlemen Studio makes these perfectly balanced procrastination aids to order. With a push, the metal frame ...
Desk Doodad Seattle-based Ladies and Gentlemen Studio makes these perfectly balanced procrastination aids to order. With a push, the metal frame will spin end-lessly around the wooden sphere.
Surrealist Skate Deck Darling of the Whitney, the New Museum, and Kanye West, artist George Condo’s Red is a silk-screened skateboard deck.
Marble Mouse Pad Because they already own the marble surfboard and the marble rolling pin.
Designer Bong A collaboration between artist Zach Puchowitz and Dumbo’s Mighty Tanaka gallery, this bong features a ghoulish design by L’amo...
Designer Bong A collaboration between artist Zach Puchowitz and Dumbo’s Mighty Tanaka gallery, this bong features a ghoulish design by L’amour Supreme.
Gold Staples Well, yes, $118 is a lot for 24 staples. But these Oooms 14-karat-gold-plated ones can be used as a lapel accent on a wool coat. Or ...
Gold Staples Well, yes, $118 is a lot for 24 staples. But these Oooms 14-karat-gold-plated ones can be used as a lapel accent on a wool coat. Or on your master’s thesis.
Leather Party Hat A single piece of cowhide leather ensures that this topper won’t get crushed or ripped on New Year’s.
Civil War Hottie Actual portraits of mid-19th-century soldiers are bound in their original, gold-embellished, pocket-size cases.
Cork Catchall Fill this poke-friendly desktop box with pushpins and paper clips.
Edith Wharton Salt Box A Tiffany & Co. piece, made of cobalt glass and solid sterling silver, dates to 1910.
Hand Mirror, Hand-Carved Annie Raso shapes and lacquers these gradient-striped mirrors from fine woods in her Bushwick shop.
A Letter From Jackie O. It’s not that Lee, but from a circa-1970 correspondence between Jackie and her interior designer, Lee Onthank Barrett, th...
A Letter From Jackie O. It’s not that Lee, but from a circa-1970 correspondence between Jackie and her interior designer, Lee Onthank Barrett, that includes her delightful sketch of a telephone stand.
Bawdy Dolls Artist Mimi Kirchner makes these one-of-a-kind, approximately 20-inch-tall dolls out of dyed cotton toile dating back to the 1700s.
Nudie Blanket A digitally woven, 100 percent cotton blanket they likely wouldn’t buy for themselves; it sure perks up all the basic throw pillows...
Nudie Blanket A digitally woven, 100 percent cotton blanket they likely wouldn’t buy for themselves; it sure perks up all the basic throw pillows.
Gold Grill Nothing says status like a 14-karat row of chompers, mold taken in-house and turned around in 48 hours.
Vintage Aluminum Pay Phone Before they go extinct.
Bold Key Ring They’ll never lose their keys again thanks to this leather accessory from Spanish design house Loewe.
Lump Nubbin What’s a Lump Nubbin? Why, a tabletop sculpture made in Brooklyn of recycled paper pulp from junk mail, of course.
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