Today’s Easy and Elegant Life gift guide comes from The Errant Aesthete whose very elegant blog never fails to inspire and provoke thought (and an internet search or two.) A nicely curated collection. Enjoy. (I’m torn between the Bialetti Tuttocrema and the Bloomsbury recordings….)
Classic Hotel Napkins $24 for six (monogramming is $6.50 extra for the set) at Pottery Barn, (888) 779-5176, potterybarn.com.
[ed: Mrs. E. gave me a set last year, in Mediterranean blue linen, and they are wonderful.]
For the literary set, BBC recordings (Bloomsbury Group)
For the thriftier souls, including myself, I just bought the Bialetti Tuttocrema, recommended by a Parisian friend, that I’m crazy about: (they may be out of stock – might want to check first) (approximately $40)
And this one at $49.50 sells the set (frother and cappuccino maker), which might be the better choice for your readers.
A final thought, again from the BBC, David Attenborough’s Planet Earth series (Approximately $30). (I tend to favor the well dressed and well spoken).
Dear readers, please feel free to send me your choices for little luxuries of USD$100, $50, 425 or less; I’ll be publishing them sporadically until the 23rd or so. Happy Holidays and a Very Merry Christmas!
Love, love the Tuttocrema! I will have to come up with some special gifts to post!
I can’t wait to hear the voices of the Bloomsberries!! Before this CD was released, one can only have access to their voices at the British Library. I remember listening to Virginia Woolf’s voice and fascinated by her distinctive pre-war vowels.
Well I would have settled for any of the above but in fact your generous comment is the nicest present I’ve had so far. Really really kind, and I hope that all of the above end up in your stocking.
E
Dear E,
This so attests to the need for stylists and editors. You have turned out my haphazard choices with magnificence. It was as though I was seeing each for the first time.
I continue to be enthralled with my double-filtered Bialetti Tuttocrema. Hope it finds its way to your stocking as I’m hoping the Bloomsbury recordings make their way to mine.
EA, Heck, all I did was stick the photos with them. Your choices stand alone!
ASD, that you managed to work the phrase “distinctive pre-war vowels” into your comment merits your receiving the CDs.
Karena, looking forward to your thoughts!