16 gifts for design fanatics (and their families)

My Art Book of Love, £14.95
At the age of three, my son could spot a Kerry James Marshall or a Gustav Klimt in a line-up. This is not a humble-brag, it’s just a brag – and I can thank the My Art Book series for his education. Buy this for every toddler in your life and watch as they blossom into caustic art critics. shop.royalacademy.org.uk

Yoomoota Red Fear sculpture, $3,500
Yoomoota, the universe conceived by Taras Yoom, is a collection of objects and furniture depicting at least 23 planets and the complex characters that inhabit them. A pleasingly tactile alternative to those children’s books that explore emotions, Yoom’s three sculptures, Pure Love, Red Fear and Blue Laugh, are a stylised de-escalation response to a festive tantrum. yoomoota.com

Joaquim Tenreiro wood Cadeira de Três Pés chair, POA
Some people think that children’s furniture should be bright, plastic and easy to wipe. I am not one of those people. I believe that you should buy them adult furniture that is close enough to the ground to avoid injury. Your child is unlikely to appreciate the design excellence of this chair – but does that matter as long as you do? carpentersworkshopgallery.com

Rivers of Another Town, 2024, by Ted Rogers, £600
“When you find your right baseball cap it will be a romance that lasts beyond death,” writes Ted Rogers, the artist behind these hand-built ceramic caps. Some of their creations are glazed to look like leather and double up as candle holders, making them a subversive centrepiece for the contemporary Christmas dinner. mxrogers.com

Chanel 31 Le Rouge Matte lipstick, £140
When you show up bearing a lipstick from Chanel, you are gifting on three levels. The packaging alone is a gift. The architectural glass case is a gift. The matte lipstick that makes one look like a hot French actress is a gift. This is Christmas all wrapped up in a Coco Chanel bow. chanel.com

Asceno silk Montauk pyjama top, £280, and Isola bottoms, £256
The fact that you’re going to sleep exhausted and irate from turkey prep is no excuse to drop the fashion ball. Bedtime is the perfect moment to wrap yourself in the kind of indulgent silk fabric that will, of course, be destroyed on contact with goose fat or grubby baby hands. asceno.com

Present & Correct grid notebook, £6
Everything at Present & Correct is covetable for the true stationery lover – but there is a particularly dizzying effect when you pull apart its harlequin-print Christmas paper and discover the simple design of this 48-page notebook, with grids inside and out. presentandcorrect.com

Gucci Double G colouring pencil set, £955
I yearn for the days when my handbag held nothing but a well-thumbed novel and a forgotten chocolate bar. Now I carry the wares of a Blue Peter presenter, ever ready to start a drawing project. If this is to be my life, then please, Santa, bring my child colouring pencils by Gucci. gucci.com

Soutzoglou Art Rug Projects x Chioma Ebinama rug, from €14,000
The Nigerian-American artist Chioma Ebinama is best known for her watercolours. Here some of her key motifs – the eye, the python and the butterfly – are given a new lease of life with the craftsmanship of Soutzoglou. I love nothing better than when the art world meets the domestic, and this partnership has “Christmas gift for favourite in-laws” all over it. tencarpets.com

Andu Masebo wood Aalto shelf, £220
The Aalto shelf is designed “to allow flowers to be wall-mounted and kept out of reach of small children and animals”. Masebo has been building a reputation as an elegant product designer; with this response to the chaos of home life, we should add “hero” to that bio. andumasebo.com

Willy Rizzo leather and steel backgammon and chess table with SQ-BR chairs, €17,400
After-dinner games can be fraught. If chess is getting a bit aggressive, you can flip this Willy Rizzo table and indulge in a relaxed game of backgammon. If the very act of playing a game is the problem, opponents can sink into their chairs and admire the orange leather with a glass of port. design.willyrizzo.com

Porsche 911 speaker 2.0, £461
Taking a quick glance at the 911 Speaker 2.0, you might think that you’ve received a very fancy pair of tiny sunglasses, so slick and small is the case. What you have instead are the two things I love about Porsche cars wrapped up in a pint-sized cylinder: clean lines and a sound that is as close to a purr as a machine can manage. shop.porsche.com

Rose Wylie cashmere blanket, £1,500
Ninety-year-old Wylie has form for scrawling dry phrases and cartoonish pop-culture figures across large canvases; wrapping yourself in a blanket by her (made with Studio Voltaire) is a declaration that you’re in on the joke, without necessarily knowing what the joke is. houseofvoltaire.org

Fitzcarraldo Editions First Decade Collection, £390
How do you say “I know you’re a Europhile intellectual who can judge a book by its cover” without saying it? You gift this collection of literature, indoctrinating your loved one into the cult of Fitzcarraldo where readers worship at the blue-and-white church of Annie Ernaux or Olga Tokarczuk. fitzcarraldoeditions.com

Sunset, 2024, by Jordan Casteel, £2,000
There is nothing childish about Jordan Casteel’s tender portraits but I’ve always wanted her intimate studies of Black men to adorn my son’s walls. Her Sunset print is on sale as part of a fundraising collaboration between Counter Editions and Magic Breakfast. countereditions.com

Rudy Ricciotti rosewood chaise longue, £38,000
Architect Ricciotti is best known for towering concrete museums and vast sports complexes, but when he turns his eye to furniture, the results are subtly sublime. To rest on this chaise longue is to rest in bliss. philippegravier.com

The Emory London Surrenne membership, £10,000 a year plus £5,000 joining fee
Nearly every year there is a moment of reckoning on Christmas day where my husband lies stuffed and pickled and vows to become the fittest man in the land. A membership to the Remi Tessier-designed Surrenne, an oasis of wellness treatments, biohacking and Tracy Anderson fitness sessions, might go some way to making this feasible. the-emory.co.uk