A gift often says more about the gifter than the giftee. A good gift is fine-tuned to its recipient but nothing so obvious that the gifts creativity doesnt surprise and delight. The right gift then, tells the recipient that the gifter really does know themand has good taste. If the task wasnt daunting enough, its particularly challenging to buy for people whose vision is always exact and precisein other words, for architects and designers.ANs 2024 Holiday Gift Guide is calibrated to meet the standards of even the most scrupulous. It features gifts for all types of designers: those working in interiors, landscapes, structural engineering, furniture, and moreand features many objects designed by peers in the industry. Organized by increasing price, the following list ranges from art, models, decor, and toys, a resource for those in search of holiday gifts for architecture students, colleagues, principals, and architectural aficionadosincluding yourself.$50 and UnderThe Pattern Book Greeting CardCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | $6(Courtesy The Pattern Book)The Pattern Book finds graphic design inspiration in technical drawings and scientific illustrations. The Holiday editions include patterns found in snowflakes, as well as an interpretation on winter landscapes, an apt holiday card for those who appreciate technical details and terrain.Eames x Art of Play: Hang-It-All Playing CardsEames Office | $13.50(Courtesy Eames/Art of Play)Now in new colors, the Hang-It-All Playing cards are made in collaboration with Art of Play. Theyre inspired by the works of Charles & Ray Eames which manifests as a graphic series of lines and circles.Luna Luna Andr Heller Dream Station Porcelain MugMoMA Design Store | $24(Courtesy MoMA Design Store)This funky mug comes from the newly re-exhibited exhibitionLuna Lunawhich first debuted in 1987. Within, the shows art director Andr Heller designed an inflatable, spiked balloon sculpture that served as a cafe. This mug takes after Hellers fun vision.Modernist Weekly Planner 2025Blue Crow Media | $31(Courtesy Blue Crow Media)This weekly planner celebrates modernist interiors from the likes of Alvar and Aino Aalto, Hans Asplund, Jean Balladur, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, and more architects. Printed on environmentally friendly paper, the planner features a space for notes as well as blank space for each day of the weekthe perfect gift for architects who need to stay organized.Tortoise Chop SticksQuarters | $34(Courtesy Quarters)In Common With and its new showroom and bar Quarters celebrates artisan and craftsmanship. The shop, located within Quarters, is no different. These tortoise chopsticks are not only visually stunning, but they are also hand-crafted by a family-owned manufactory founded over 150 years ago.Special Edition New York MapUrban Omnibus | $50(Courtesy Urban Omnibus)In commemoration of Urban Omnibus 15th anniversary, the team has partnered with artist Stipan Tadi to create a special map of New York that highlights the physical supports for everyday life in New York. From infrastructure and housing to public spaces and neighborhoods, the map collects projects and places that explore social concerns.Under $100Blockitecture Frank Lloyd Wright UsonianAreaware | $60(Courtesy Blockitecture)From New Yorkbased designer James Paulius, these building blocks reference Frank Lloyd Wrights Usonian homes. The kit features a honeycomb grid system similar to the ones Wright used, and it can create various stacks, supports, and structures for endless playtime for little architects-in-trainingor adult ones, too.Gustaf Westman x Home in Heven OrnamentsHome in Heaven | $75+(Courtesy Heven)Stockholm-based furniture and object designer Gustaf Westman collaborated with homeware and fashion brand Home in Heaven for a fun glassware collection. In addition to Westmans signature chunky, heavy plates and cup sets, now rendered in glass, the partnership includes ornaments that take after both the fashion lines tongue-in-cheek ethos and Westmens penchant for play.Jug EMILY SkyHome Studyo |$80(Courtesy Home Studyo)Residing in the middle space between collectible design and mass production, Home Studyo aims to bring handmade objects to a more approachable level. The designers do so with the illusory jug whose inflatable-like edges disguise its ceramic materiality.Symmetry Collection BowlStudio Jialun Xiong | $85(Victor Yuan Chen)Jialun Xiong is a Los Angelesbased architect and designer known for her high-drama yet restrained approach. She applies the same methodology to interiors as well as products like her new symmetry collection. It includes a porcelain bowl that seeks, as its name suggests, perfect symmetry with elegant and sophisticated results.Ceramic PlateOWIU Goods | $90(Courtesy OWIU Goods)A gift for architects from architects: This ceramic plate is by OWIU Goods, the ceramic goods line of the Los Angelesbased architecture firm OWIU. The studio began its own ceramics line after offering employees a membership at a ceramic studio as part of a mental health benefit. It was such a hitwith employees as well as clientsthat it became its own branch that works in tandem with the architects.Yinka Ilori Radiant Blooms Recycled Leather Placemats Set of 4MoMA Design Store | $95(Courtesy MoMA Design Store)Designer Yinka Ilori made a splash at this years NeoCon when he debuted his colorful and geometric collaboration with Momentum. These placemats take after the same design language with a functional and sustainable approach.Anna G. CorkscrewAlessi | $99(Courtesy Alessi)Celebrating the iconic corkscrews originally designed by Alessandro Mendini, Alessi has relaunched the product in three new collaborations that cross disciplines: Arthur Arbesser, Studio Temp, and Fulvia Mendini. Each puts their own take on the design with new clothes for the figural corkscrews using a new, plastic-like, bio-composite material.Over $100Chirp No. 13 GEHRYChirp Birdhouses | $109(Courtesy Chirp Birdhouses)When ONY Architectures Nima Yadollahpour made an architectural birdhouse with his daughter to protect some local chicks, it blossomed into a father-daughter venture: Chirp Birdhouses. The brands latest edition of architecture-forward homes for birds is modeled after Frank Gehry and his deconstructive ethos. The avian home features a continuous textured roof form that breaks apart and folds into itself. Its best suited for White-Breasted Nuthatches, Titmice, and Wrens.Shoulder Bag ArchitectGRNBAG | 134(Courtesy GRNBAG)Working closely with architectural firm Pluskontoret, GRNBAG developed the quintessential work bag for architects. It features three inner pockets to organize a binder and A3 format, a laptop, and smaller notepads or writing utensils. On the exterior there are two outer pockets to carry water bottles or a camera and charger. The bag is made of leftover material from tarpaulin production in Denmark so its durable enough to take on construction sites yet sleek enough to transition to meetings and other events.Plus HooksGoux Studio | $150(Esther M. Choi)Brooklyn-based Goux Studio riffed on a single form to create multiple possibilities. The form in question: a plus-shape extrusion. Graphic and elemental, its used to create hang jackets, towels, and (in one iteration) plants, and, due to the symmetry and connection to the wall, the hooks get stronger with the more weight thats added. They can also be paired with one of the studios boards to create floating shelves.Mola Kit 1Mola | $189(Courtesy Moto)Mola began when architecture student Marcio Sequeira wanted a hands-on model for his studies on structural behavior but couldnt find one to suit his needs. So he made his own. The result is Mola Kit 1, a set that simulates different structural systems with over 100 configurations. Its a tangible way to learn about connections, tension members, columns, beams, frames, and trussesa stimulating gift for students, educators, or structural engineering enthusiasts.DUO Salt & Pepper Grinder SetZaha Hadid | $190.50(Courtesy Zaha Hadid Design)A kitchen staple made sculptural, the DUO set by Zaha Hadids design team evokes a pair of twisting towers, as theyre comprised of aluminum in two parts, each of which twists to form a triangular peak. As expected of something devised by architects, the salt and pepper grinders are striking on the table, in plan, and other angles.Skateboard & Walnut DishAdrianMartinus Design | $254(Courtesy AdrianMartinus Design)Brothers, skateboarders, and carpenters, Adrian and Martinus Pool were frustrated with construction material waste. The duo, founders of AdrianMartinus Design, decided to find new life for hardwood floors and old skateboards, creating homeware that mixes and matches these repurposed material. The Skateboard & Walnut dish does so with clear contrast, made from repurposed skateboards and offcuts from their furniture production.Tarp 01a83 | $300(Courtesy Gus Crain/A83)This print by Gus Crain was exhibited recently in a83s group exhibition, Architectural Drawing III.Crain presented his Ongoing Constructionseries, which depicts familiar objects in American construction rendered in precise drawings.Bocci 14pAesop | $360(Courtesy Bocci)14 is Boccis first product, a pendant light designed by Omer Arbel in 2005. The portable version, 14p, continues to capture the allure of the original designs embrace of material integrity and imperfection, featuring two hemispheres that touch along imprecise edges with air bubbles introduced as the glassblower fills the molds. This year, Bocci collaborated with Aesop to render the 14p in the body brands iconic amber hue.Real BougieMenorahMA-MA | $650(Courtesy MA-MA)Design and interiors studio MA-MA, led by Sanam, Laylee, and Safura Salek, offers a sleek, minimalist take on a menorah. Two aluminum slabs sit atop one another and rotate around their connection to reveal a new candle holder for each day of the holiday. The highly reflective metallic exterior of the Menorah aims to amplify the candle light beyond the object itself.Untitled (Grids)LAND Gallery + Blu Dot | $850(Courtesy Robert Latchman/Blu Dot)This print is a gift that gives back: 100 percent of each purchase goes directly to the artist as part of Blu Dots Art Mode collection. The gridded artwork depicts the structure of the Brooklyn Bridge, made by artist Robert Latchman who lives in Brooklyn and was born in Trinidad.The TWA Flight Center Desk ClockVulcain | $1,300(Courtesy Vulcain)The iconic clock that hangs down from TWA terminal at JFK Airport has now been reissued in a smaller, more compact format suitable for desks. The reissue remains faithful to the original design with a 316L stainless steel body and an iridescent warm light grey finish.Wicker Dog BedCharlap Hyman & Herrero | $1,500(Courtesy Charlap Hyman & Herrero)Dogs appreciate design, too, and certainly designers love their furry ones. Charlap Hyman & Herrero certainly do, designing a sophisticated bed to show some much-deserved love to pups. This resting place features an integrated cushion and bolsters consisting of a wicker and steel base which floats on glossy black spheres.LEBOND SOUTO MOURA ORIGINALLebond Watches | 2,700(Courtesy Lebond)Eduardo Souto de Moura designed a light, restrained timepiece for Lebond. The face is rotated 30 degrees to improve readability when looking at it on a wrist. The piece is exceptionally light, featuring a case that measures only 7.6 millimeters in thickness. The minimalist timepiece is both elegant and comfortable.