Ding-dong December is here and my Christmas gift guide drops for
another year with ten ideas that will guarantee culture points under the tree this Holiday season. Inspired from the worlds of art and design that have caught my
eye on my travels or have been featured here on the blog and on my Twitter
throughout the course of the year, follow my curated countdown of discerning
gifts for the naughty and nice…
1. Butt of the joke
Paris was the
setting (and crime scene) for Paul McCarthy’s provocative
public art work, Tree, erected in conjunction with his Chocolate Factory
exhibition at La Monnaie de Paris this year. A
souvenir of the work is being produced by the artist and French chocolatier Mademoiselle Chocolat during the exhibition.
2. Tribal Instinct
Discover society’s unconscious universality in photographer and flâneur extraordinaire, Hans Eijkelboom’s anti-sartorial publication People of the Twenty-First Century published by Phaidon
3. Desk sculpture
Haute-stationery from Japanese papermaker ITO Bindery for the aspiring curator – the recycled Memo Block is available at
Please Do Not Enter
4. Adult Entertainment
Forgo the wood fire and turn up the heat over Robert Lazzarini’s distorted Puzzle series featuring images from 1970s porn - the limited edition of 50 jigsaw puzzles per design are produced by Brooklyn-based creative platform Grey Area
5. Child’s Play
Matt Austin Studio transforms our long-lost ephemera in the bottom of the junk drawer into a witty 8-piece collection of Chalk Ware for use or decoration - from Marc Jacobs Bookmarc
6. Stick your neck
out
Be anything but
square with this UNIQLO SPRZ NY X Keith Haring art bandana – available at UNIQLO
stores worldwide
7. Light on your
feet
ICNY defy the
no-socks-for-Christmas code with these ‘Original Dot’ 3M reflective performance pair ideal for the urban athlete – available at ICNY Sport
8. Design Digit
For those who
couldn’t give a festive f**k this holiday season, Maurizio Cattelan’s L.O.V.E
Snow Globe is on (finger) point – available at MoMA Store
9. Model breakfast
Mark 2015’s
highly anticipated return of designer John Galliano at the helm of cult fashion house Maison
Martin Margiela with these alternative Fortune Eggs for a prosperous and stylish new year – by Maison Martin Margiela
10. Tea-total
Give the gift of
wellness with this irresistible blend of loose leaf maté, green tea and lemongrass from the Detox collection at tea emporium Kusmi Tea
Images courtesy
of Paul McCarthy, Phaidon, Please Do Not Enter, Grey Area, Marc Jacobs Bookmarc, UNIQLO, ICNY Sport, MoMA Store, Maison Martin Margiela and Kusmi Tea
