From wreaths and wrapping paper to cards and crackers, these are the places to pick up the essentials
FEATURE AMY MOOREA WONG
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ANTHROPOLOGIE
Find out if you’ve been naughty or nice in style this year with a stocking from Anthropologie over your fireplace. Giving designs with a traditional feel a modern-day twist, the collection includes quilted velvet fronts detailed with bright stitching and wavy hems, and fluffy wool designs decorated with jolly scenes of snow, complete with pretty cottages and skiing penguins (above).
ARCHIVIST
Archivist is about bringing joy to the everyday, and its fine, fun, festive matches are created to take pride of place on the mantelpiece. With a huge collection of designs, from retro-esque animals, figures, hot air balloons, boats, landscapes and typography, it takes inspiration from vintage matchboxes and luggage labels, while also creating new designs with contemporary artists to form its lively, eclectic collection.
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BROSTE COPENHAGEN
Broste Copenhagen’s festive candle collection this year is as wide and varied as it is pared back and contemporary. As well as its beautiful range of countdown-tothe-big-day advent candles, you’ll find Christmas tree-shaped candles and architectural and abstract sculptural wax forms.
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CAMBRIDGE IMPRINT
Litho-printed in a subtle yet exuberant palette, this papermaking brand’s selection of cards and wrapping paper has a handmade feel. Wrapping paper is adorned with stars, swirls, plants, characters and buildings, while cards cheerfully proclaim greetings in jaunty, medieval-style fonts.
CHASE & WONDER
For a whimsical finish to the Christmas table, home fragrance and gifting brand Chase & Wonder’s cracker range fuses delicate illustration with a nostalgic twist of Victoriana. Choose from designs bedecked in richly hued butterflies, robins, wreaths, jewels or the beguiling Christmas Lady, each hand-rolled cracker filled with one of the brand’s signature scented candles as well as a crown and joke.
CLARA & MACY
Bouncing off the Japanese tradition of furoshiki – using cloth to wrap – Clara & Macy’s wrapping options are both beautiful and eco-friendly. Its array of handmade textile wraps come in plain or illustrated patterns, in a palette of joyful tones. Made from 100% zerowaste cotton, the wraps are designed to be folded and knotted – following the directions – and each piece is endlessly reusabl
