Holiday Gift Ideas: Kitchen Soldiers

Your name does not need to be Arthur Stanley Jefferson, aka Laurel, or Oliver Norvell Hardy, aka Hardy, to march a few kitchen essentials out of the shop or to feel like a true babe in toyland after a purchase. These three kitchen stalwarts continually surprise and delight.

Menu Salt & Pepper
Norm Architects upends expectations with these paired pepper and salt shakers. The grounds dispense from the top to keep counters clean, while the smooth mechanism of the ceramic grinder produces perfect grounds whether spice, nut, or seed. $60 - $65

Nut Hammer
Roger Arquer’s Nut Hammer tickles – and for some may even frighten - the soul. From its playful wink-right-at-you name to its supreme utility as a nutcracker, you may have to get more than one for the after dinner table. $40

 

Muuto Push Coffee Maker
Mette Duedahl has reimagined the press coffee pot. The simplicity of the four design elements: stoneware, steel, plastic, and beech, reveal a sheer mastery of controlled Nordic form. $149