’Tis the season of putting your money where your love is. Luckily, designers craft meaningful, beautiful, and unique pieces year-round to make shopping for the holidays less of a bore. Whether gifting for material geeks, seeking something special for a formalist, or buying presents for graphic designers, interior designers, or landscape architects, this gift guide caters to a range of typologies, and, perhaps more importantly, price tags.
The guide is divided by budget and features items by architects, designers, and artists, including gifts that give back to communities in need. Each make for carefully curated gifts for the design-minded—along with the latest arrivals from The Architect’s Newspaper, AN Interior, and ArchWork, of course.
$50 and Under
smudge studio | $20
Through photography and installations, smudge studio researches landscapes as an aesthetic-ecological act. The studio—run by Jamie Kruse, artist and assistant professor at Parsons School for Design, The New School; and Elizabeth Ellsworth, author of Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy—embarked on an ongoing research project examining rocks at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. These postcards locate some of the rocks catalogued in the project. They make for an unsuspecting backdrop for messages of holiday cheer, while supporting an independent organization’s research.
IKEA | $20
Swedish designer Gustaf Westman burst through social media and design bubbles with his chunky and funky designs. The designer recently collaborated with IKEA for a collection of table and homeware in his signature bright colors and playful aesthetics. Included in this launch, a LED table lamp with expandable rings that allow the fixture to take on different shapes.
Lambwolf Collective | $22
What do architects love more than buildings? How about their furry friend? This enrichment toy combines the love of both, as it’s inspired by the forms of Marcel Breuer’s concrete designs. The squeaky and crinkly toy most recalls the tree-columns of Breuer’s IBM Research Center. After all, dogs should enjoy the built environment too.
Eames House Construction Flipbook
Eames Office | $23
Flip through this booklet to see the Case Study House No. 8 come to life, steel frame and prefabricated facades and all. The flipbook uses 72 faithfully reproduced stills from the film, House: After Five Years of Living, which captures the construction of the 1949 residence. Eames reissued the product after the home was recently damaged and re-opened following the Southern California wildfires. As such, 15 percent of these proceeds will go to the Charles and Ray Eames Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund, which supports rebuilding efforts in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu.
Dudd Haus | $38
Part of the collective gallery Dudd Haus, an offshoot platform of JONALDDUDD, the dipper candles by Carl Durkow showcase the Philadelphia-based designer’s minimal yet expressive form. Durkow’s processes embraces the construction of the human hand in opposition to an increasingly digital world. The candles delivers both playful illumination and sculptural accessory.
Under $100
Ellsworth Kelly Hundred Panels Recycled Polyester Scarf
MoMA | $65
This scarf features a reproduction of Ellsworth Kelly’s 1951 piece, Study for a Mural in a Hundred Panels. The accessory encapsulates the painter, sculptor, and printmaker’s colorful abstractions, often drawn from and made to interact with architecture and public space. The paper-based construction of the original work is well translated in the gauzy, slightly transparent fabric of the scarf.
SIN | $70
While designing lighting and furniture, SIN got its start with the humble dinner plate. Founder Virginia Sin first designed the plate in 2007 which elevated the classic ruffled paper plate to a porcelain edition that was made using paper pulp alongside the porcelain slip. The dining object was featured in the collection of the New York Historical Society for capturing a design beloved in Asian American potlucks and barbecues. Sin recently revived the design, including its sculpted edge, recalling the way standard paper plates bend under the weight of food.
ENORME | $72
Play with scale. The ENORME tote is, as its name suggests, extra roomy and, as a result, extra functional. The tote stems from Ettore Sottsass and David Kelley’s collaboration on the design of the 1985 ENORME telephone. Five-hundred of the phones were recently unearthed, alongside a series of the merchandise celebrating the postmodern design. They’re sold exclusively on Basic.Space.
Tortuga Forma | $72
Tortuga Forma collaborated with Office of Tangible Space, one of AN Interior’s Top 50 architects and designers of 2025, on a dishware series. The designs riffs on classic midcentury style but with a twist: a sculptural and ergonomic lifted edge. The collection composes dinner, salad, and bread plates, and a serving platter.
Sophie Lou Jacobsen | $85
Designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen returns with a new homeware line, dubbed Continental Collection. Inspired by the items found in European fine dining, the collection consists of glassware and silver-plated tableware for breakfast, taking up the classic typologies but putting her signature feminine and soft spin on them. Included in the collection is an apple-shaped glass bowl, the perfect container for sugar cubes, loose tea, or other fancy accoutrements.
Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape
Kelli Anderson | $85
Published by Katherine Small Gallery and written by Kelli Anderson, Alphabet in Motion puts the history of type into an interactive and visual explanation. This book illustrates how letterforms came to be, illuminating the facets of ’60s type by projecting light into a pop-up or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by incorporating puzzle pieces of Josef Albers’ Kombinations-Schrift.
$100 and Over
Drawing for Food | $100 (CAD)
Drawing for Food solicits drawings and illustrations from architects for sale at auction to support organizations in Toronto that provide food for people experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, or housing instability. The online auction is co-organized by DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS, one of the firms in AN Interior’s Top 50 architects and designers list of 2023. Firms from around the world submitted work which will be open for bidding from November 26 to December 5.
Insulation Hatch Grey Knitted Crew Neck Sweater
Architectural Icons | $104
Founded by Adam Nathaniel Furman, Architectural Icons is a clothing and object store that brings architecture into everyday goods. This sweater is part of the CAD Hatches collection. It’s made-to-order with a blend of cotton and polyester.
Nik Bentel Studio | $130
Never lose a project idea again. The Doodle Bag makes sketching designs and jotting down thoughts on the go easy. The glossy surface enables writing with the six included dry erase markers which can then be wiped clean. The design is part of architect-turned-fashion-designer Nik Bentel’s playful oeuvre of both accessories and furniture.
Kadre Architects | $145
In 2024, Kadre Architects designed a commercial kitchen for Hope the Mission, a rescue organization in California. The duo also teamed up to design scarves, made in Los Angeles, that not only translate the site plans from the firm’s recent housing projects into bold, graphic patterns. One scarf feeds one person from the Hope the Mission kitchen for one week.
Max ID NY x Great Jones Manhattan Beacon Glass
Great Jones Distilling Co | $160
Maximilian Eicke of design firm Max ID NY collaborated with Great Jones Distilling Co on a limited edition set of glassware designed specifically for Manhattans. The collection includes the Manhattan Beacon, a two-in-one hand-blown glass that, when filled, mimics the cocktail’s amber hue.
Archigram | $195
Published with Designers & Books, Archigram: The Magazine is a faithful reproduction of the rare, small-press publication by architects Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron, David Greene, and Michael Webb. This box set, funded through a Kickstarter, includes exact facsimiles of all 10 issues, including the flyers, pockets, a pop-up centerfold, posters, gatefolds and an electronic resistor. It also includes a fully illustrated reader’s guide featuring essays by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane and Reyner Banham, and tributes from the architectural community, such as Tadao Ando, Kenneth Frampton, Norman Foster, Zamp Kelp, David Rockwell, and Patrik Schumacher.
andSons Chocolatiers | $295
In 1970 artist Ed Ruscha designed an installation at the 35th Venice Biennale that covered walls in chocolate. So perhaps it’s not out-of-the-box that the artist would collaborate with California chocolatiers andSons on a bespoke collection. The partnership, Made in California, features a bar of chocolate, made with dark chocolate and blood orange olive oil from Sonoma County, that features the topography of the Pacific Ocean eastward to the Santa Lucia Mountains. Production will be limited to 300 chocolates, which will open for ordering in early December.
Head Hi | $350
Designed by Niles Fromm for Head Hi, the Head Hi Lamp is defined by a steel, minimal base with a softly rounded top. Fromm, based in New York, is a frequent participant in Head Hi’s annual lamp show, which is currently open for submissions for 2026.
Kate Forbes | £450
Look like an architect—or at least Adrien Brody playing an architect. This sweater mirrors the his character, struggling architect László Tóth, wore in The Brutalist. The movie generated fanfare for many reasons, including eyes for this sweater and its sculptural neckline and soft pleats. The movie’s costume designer Kate Forbes and knitwear designer Ilana Blumberg came together to produce 300 for purchase. The wool piece is the same original gray as seen in the Oscar-winning movie, but it now features a deeper rib cuff and longer sleeves.
Ravine Collection: 448 Series Table Lamp
Idaho Wood Lighting | $800
Developed in collaboration with Post Company, one of the firms included in this year’s AN Interior list of Top 50 architects and designers, the Ravine Table Lamp is named after the last remaining forest in Brooklyn in Prospect Park. The lamp is made with solid pieces of timber with an Edison base socket. It comes in western red cedar with natural timber oil, Douglas fir with natural timber oil, or Douglas fir with yakisugi.
Bocci | $1,000
Bocci recently released a new, portable iteration of its popular 118 series. 118p is made with reusable steel cage. As air is introduced, it fills the interior of the cage to create the unique blob-like orbs inside. The portable version is available in white, bronze, green, and gray with a 45-minute charge.
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