Sorry Thanks I Love You was created to help the world #givedifferent. Everything at STILY has either taken hours to design or has been made by hand, and all of it has a story to tell. STILY’s Caroline Ball has given Open Journal a run down of her top 10 Christmas gifts from their range of unique design, fresh flowers, gourmet food and craft beverages from around the world.
- 0600 Kayak $2200
Based on the traditional 4000 year old Inuit design, OSixHundred’s award-winning kayak is made from an interlocking lightweight pine frame and translucent carbon skin. It comes flat packed and can be constructed in two hours (though it also makes a pretty great DIY project!) and at 10kg is lighter than a toddler.
- Christmas Pudding Brittle – Winnow Chocolates $22
They say it’s difficult to improve to Christmas Pudding. They lie. We’ve commissioned an obsessive Sydney chocolatier to immortalize the flavours of December in a special dark chocolate brittle. Decorated with edible 23 carat gold leaf, studded with moist currants, cranberries and crunchy almonds, heavy on glacé cherries and carefully spiced with Christmassy cinnamon and nutmeg, it’s the king of sophisticated festivity.
- MH40 Headphones $530
It’s not often you come across something that sounds better than it looks Nicknamed the thinking cap, Master & Dynamic’s over-ear headphones combine leather, lambskin, memory foam and world class audio engineering and have been built specifically to encourage wearers to escape to their own private world.
- Ferdinand’s Saar Dry Gin $95
Believe the hype. Infused with hand picked late-harvest Riesling grapes from the Saarburger Rausch vineyard on the border of Germany, Luxembourg and France, Ferdinand’s Saar’s gin is crisp, citrusy and bordering on the revelatory.
- Karl Kokeshi Doll – Lucie Kaas $60
For Lagerfeld fans of all heights.
- Five Cheeses and Spiced Cherries – Bruny Island Cheese Company $140
Bruny Island Cheese Company’s award-winning cheeses are justifiably famous – but the accompanying jar of boozey cherries marinated in Tasmanian pinot noir almost outshines them.
- Sushi Party Bracelet – Venessa Arizaga
Incorporating mixed charms, antique silver plated brass hardware and a drawstring close, Venessa Arizaga’s haute couture take on the humble charm bracelet has raised more than one eyebrow at Vogue.
- Sip Scarf Yarnz $290
Wrapped around the neck, Yarnz’s superfine cashmere scarf is a mess of soft pastels, but at full stretch perfect pink lips slurping up the taste of summer are revealed. So soft it makes the fingertips weep.
- Round The World Sunglasses – Lucy Folk $385
There’s Prada and Karen Walker, and then there’s Lucy Folk.
- The Gift Series $100 per month or quarter
The king of Christmas presents! This premium gift subscription lets you surprise a friend with a present valued at $100 from our ever-evolving range of unique design, fresh flowers, gourmet food and craft beverages from around the world on a monthly or quarterly basis.
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