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10 Best Gifts For The Home Of That Friend With Impeccable Taste

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10 Best Gifts For The Home Of That Friend With Impeccable Taste

Who’s the arbiter of good taste now?

by Imran Jalal  /   December 3, 2022
gift ideas for home

Deck the halls... rooms, shelves and more.

Finding the perfect house gift for that pal with a knack for aesthetics and design is perhaps the most brain-racking part of holiday shopping. In the list below, we’ve curated 10 items that will pass the taste barometer of anyone from the ardent minimalism fiend to the obsessive audiophile.


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10 Best Gifts For The Home Of That Friend With Impeccable Taste
Mist-o glass cup, $35, www.spacefurniture.com.sg
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The 10-year-old Tokyo- and Milan-based design studio Mist-o creates elegant glassware collections that are distinguished by their basic simplicity and sense of humour. Clock this playful bowl-slash-drinking glass hybrid which serves as a chalice, dessert bowl – or anything you want it to be.

Space
Kagerou Aromatique Incense, $53 for a pack of 33 sticks, Aesop
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If the earthy scent of vetiver infused in Aesop’s Reverence Aromatique hand wash or balm smells like heaven, you would approve of the herbaceous and woody accords of these incense sticks wafting through the home.

Aesop
Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore, $65, nuspress.nus.edu.sg
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This recently-released 376-page tome of Singapore’s modern built environment by Jiat-Hwee Chang and Justin Zhuang is the perfect addition to the library of any architectural or design history buff. Pore through the 33 essays in the book, which are peppered with some 200 archival images and drawings as well as more than 100 contemporary photos by architectural lensman Darren Soh.

Aluminium candle holder, $880, Balenciaga
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Looking for a conversation starter at the dinner table? In true Demna fashion (remember the speaker bag he designed for Balenciaga’s Couture Store?), this novelty candle holder riffs on the design of beer cans.

Balenciaga
Tiffany & Co. x Andy Warhol bone china ring dishes, $680 for a set of six, Tiffany & Co.
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From 1957 to 1962, Andy Warhol created greeting cards for Tiffany & Co. that were offered at the latter’s Fifth Avenue flagship store. These featured holiday-themed motifs such as birds, stars and trees in the artist’s distinctive blotted line and watercolour style. Six decades on, those drawings are making their comeback at the American jeweller as part of its Holiday offerings this year – appearing on collectable bone china pieces, playing cards and Christmas tree baubles.

Tiffany & Co.
0/0 nylon wine bag, $88 for magnum size, www.tanchenstudio.com
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Impress the party host by gifting vino stashed in this elastic cord bag by Singapore-based and Shanghai-based textile specialist Tanchen Studio. The versatile design also doubles up as a carrier for fruits, beer cans and more.

Tanchen Studio
Tekla organic cotton towel set, $153, www.luisaviaroma.com
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Founded by Acne Studios alum Charlie Hedin, Tekla makes some of the plushest organic cotton home textiles – including this set of bath, guest and hand towels, which feels like a dream to the touch.

LuisaViaRoma
Volt'H leather wireless charging change tray, $2,350, Hermes
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Keep the workspace clutter-free with this handsome desk accoutrement that comprises a wireless charger and a change tray, that has been wrapped in the French maison’s smooth taurillon H leather.

Hermes
Devialet Mania portable smart speaker, $1,360, Devialet
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Turn the home into the perfect soundstage as you stream that party playlist on Devialet’s first portable smart speaker. Its Active Stereo Calibration technology renders sound to suit the surroundings – allowing 360° audio if the speaker is placed in the middle of the room or optimising acoustics when the speaker is placed near a wall.

Devialet
Hay metal bottle opener, $26, The Editor's Market
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The aesthete will certainly appreciate the sleek contemporary industrial design of this bottle opener.

The Editor's Market
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