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The Gift Guide Guide to Gifts: A Guide to Gift Guides

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By Dan Duray 12/23/11 2:59pm
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    Everyone loves gift guides, even broke journalists who essentially haven’t spent money on anything that isn’t food or electricity in the past year. You don’t want our opinion about what to buy your loved ones this year, but we’ve gone to the experts and pulled some choice selections from their gift guides. Won’t you take a look?

    All images courtesy of the gift guides.

  • Back Forward Planters With Panache

    Planters With Panache

    Publication: The Wall Street Journal

    Representative gift: "Container gardening is hot, and what better way to display plants on your deck or patio than in oversize, historic-looking planters. Made of heavy-gauge steel dipped in molten zinc, they should last years. And there's no need to worry about freezing weather causing cracks, as happens with pottery containers.”

    Price: $219 to $529.

    Potential recipient: Go-go sibling in public relations with dreams of feudalism.

  • Back Forward Wine Bags

    Wine Bags

    Publication: Monacle

    Representative gift: "Keep your drink snug in Ichizawa Hanpu wine bags, hand-crafted in Kyoto.”

    Price: Probably quite a bit.

    Potential recipient: Locavore alcoholic co-worker, only wears bowties.

  • Back Forward 'Unique Artistic Reinterpretations of Frankenstein's Monster'

    'Unique Artistic Reinterpretations of Frankenstein's Monster'

    Publication: Boing Boing

    Representative gift: "From pop art to comedy, horror to whimsy, a large collection of hand-painted Frankenbusts.”

    Price: ~$500.

    Potential recipient: Tragic boyfriend.

  • Back Forward Porn Movie-Style Luxury Dog Bed

    Porn Movie-Style Luxury Dog Bed

    Publication: Gawker

    Representative gift: "Look at this fucking dog bed. It's way nicer than your bed. It also comes with a white and black embroidered silk throw pillow, and black nail heads for added beauty and sophistication.’ That's right. Sophistication.”

    Price: $1,550.

    Potential recipient: A dog.

  • Back Forward Earbud Splitter

    Earbud Splitter

    Publication: New York Magazine

    Representative gift: Earbud splitter from the MoMA Store.

    Price: $10.

    Potential recipient: Oversexed friend who doesn’t need to flirt via shared earbuds and has never heard of Radioshack.

  • Back Forward Arcade Table

    Arcade Table

    Publication: Vanity Fair

    Representative gift: "Arcade Tables offers 60 pre-installed games on the Stealth model”.

    Price: $2,500.

    Potential recipient: A blond child named “Bushwick.”

  • Back Forward Bull Footstool

    Bull Footstool

    Publication: The New York Times

    Representative gift: Bull footstool from Coach.

    Price: $898.

    Potential recipient: Not-unstylish aunt with inexplicable MoDo obsession.

  • Back Forward Nature Cufflinks

    Nature Cufflinks

    Publication: Bloomberg BusinessWeek

    Representative gift: ” These silver dress-shirt accoutrements offer formality with a touch of whimsy. Choose from fishing lure, stag’s head, or acorn.”

    Price: $130, $210, $195.

    Potential recipient: Retired father who needs to be subtly reminded that nobody cares about his all-male trip to Denali.

  • Back Gun Lamp

    Gun Lamp

    Publication: GQ

    Representative gift: "An oldie but a goodie. This may not fire, but it will intimidate thieves.”

    Price: $948.

    Potential recipient: Teenage sister with a thing for Chandler and hard-to-understand glasses.

Comments

  1. Naperville Limo says:
    December 24, 2011 at 4:48 am

    Nice gift idea. Pretty Original too. I think my brother would like this for Christmas!

  2. Naperville Limo says:
    December 24, 2011 at 4:48 am

    Nice gift idea. Pretty Original too. I think my brother would like this for Christmas!

  3. Pinto says:
    December 27, 2011 at 9:28 am

    This is right that these gifts come with another more subtle one.The written skill is so good.I am very impress to this one.This is an amazing.I appreciate to this one.Thanks to share this blog with us.

  4. sam says:
    December 28, 2011 at 8:16 am

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