'Tis the season to Love and be Loved, so we've selected this week's favourite @anotherloves posts for your gift giving inspiration
This week, the @anotherloves stream has been dedicated entirely to gift giving, acting as a festive guide to help followers feel inspired rather than defeated by daunting task of Christmas shopping. Dubbed the 12 Days of Christmas, each day we've been posting a themed selection of three personality-specific presents – from the Plant Lover, to the Movie Obsessive, the Pop Art Aficionado and so on – with the chance of winning one of the desirable objects for your very own. Here, we've picked five of our most Loved for your festive delectation.
British artist Richard Woods is famed for his garish and repetitious motifs, frequently applied to facades, floors and walls to form mesmerising installations. In 2009, Woods teamed up with designer Sebastian Wrong teamed up for a special project commissioned by Established & Sons which saw the former's block printed patterns imposed onto Wrong’s utilitarian cabinets to pleasing, Pop Art-y effect.
Thanks to the current retrospective at the Barbican, Charles and Ray Eames are having a full blown renaissance (not that the lauded designers' works have ever gone out of style). This adorable – and typically functional – elephant stool is one of their most playful seating devices, made from moulded ply-wood and brimming with personality.
Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse is the favourite of many a film buff, celebrated for its "elegant, ice cold, charade of emotions" (BFI Film Bulletin) played out by David Niven and Jean Seberg in the lead roles. And who better to design the poster for such a seminal movie than the legendary Saul Bass? A vintage pin-up to seek out and treasure.
McQueens florist has long been the go-to place for beautiful, luxuriant bouquets, but it also offers an array of floral themed objects, from delicately scented candles to terrariums and, perhaps best of all, pearariums! A miniature garden encased within a glass pear, it's the sort of present you buy to give to your best friend, but never quite muster the resolve to hand over.
Finally, a covetable collector's item in the making, courtesy of an ingenious Gucci x Comme des Garçons collaboration for the latter's annual Christmas RED Celebration project. Six limited edition floral-print silk scarves were designed for the purpose, each featuring a bold red splash and emblazoned with the two houses' logos. Chic, with a DIY twist!
