Wish List # 1

Cookware from iittalla $225-$450This iittalla cookware is what I most want to find under my tree this holiday season. Function and form are perfectly combined with an inner ball blasted steel surface and a satin steel finish that is non-stick, without coating. The inner aluminum core between the steel layers ensure food is heated evenly and rapidly. Suitable for inversion, gas and electric stoves and ovens. Frying pans, casseroles, saucepans and oven pans available.

Carrie Lamp by Norm Architects $149.95
Lightweight and portable with a USB charger, the possibilities of the Carrie lamp by Menu are endless – use it on your bedside table, light a nursery, hang it from a tree or light your way to a beach bonfire. Suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

Tom Dixon Chop Long $110A chopping board milled from solid oak with a soft curved edge.The longer shape can be used for bread or as a decorative charcuterie board. Who wouldn’t be delighted to receive this as a host gift?  

The Tear Drop Mini $580

An orb of light floats within the transparent hard glass globe of the Tear Drop. Scaled to the size of a human heart, it is not a lighting fixture, but a design of light, itself. With soft, warm halogen light, this lamp is perfect resting on the corner of your desk or shelf.

Hang Around cook set by Muuto $40

The simple genius of this design makes these a perfect gift for the aspiring chef or design enthusiast. Serve salad or stir a sauce and then rest them securely on the edge of your pot or bowl to preserve the integrity of the wood utensil and keep your space clean and tidy.

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