| “Hear my soul speak. The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest Handmade Porcelain Heart DishYou may have a heart “most constant” (William Shakespeare), a “crooked” heart (W. H. Auden), a “recalcitrant” heart (Leonora Speyer), a heart “fevered” and “yearning” (George Marion McClellan), a “faithful” heart (Jong Mong-Ju), or even a “tell-tale heart” (Edgar Allan Poe). But you don’t have to be a poet to appreciate the simple beauty and craftsmanship of this handmade porcelain dish. Café au Lait Service for TwoMade in France from heirloom-quality porcelain, and designed for everyday use, these café au lait bowls, in the distinctive classic shape, are decorated with typography from vintage brasserie menus. We’ve paired them with a Thé pitcher—a classic design that originated in Mehun-sur-Yevre, France. These milk “jugs” are not only used to serve warm milk for café au lait but for juices, sauces, and any other pouring liquids. | “I Have Loved None But You” Jane Austen BraceletThis exquisite gold bracelet features the indelible words of Captain Wentworth in his letter to Anne Elliot, a favorite among Janeites for its intense passion and beautiful prose. Austen’s words are hand-cast on this 14-karat gold vermeil bangle (2.5" diameter, .125" width). There are three small 14-karat wire gold loops on the bracelet. | Edward Gorey Sterling Heart Cat PinThis little cat offers a beloved a red enamel heart with a bemused expression betrays that they might not be quite sure how to do so. This gently romantic sterling silver pin is a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day or an anniversary, or any occasion when one wants to express affection…or something stronger. Edward Gorey’s signature is on the back of the pin. | Reader, I Married Him Silver Brontë Bracelet“Reader, I married him.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre This declarative and witty quotation from Brontë’s masterpiece, one of the most famous stories of romance in all of literature, is stamped inside this artisan-made silver bracelet. From its outer appearance, this looks like an elegant silver cuff; printed inside is an intimate declaration of commitment. | Monet Tulips Silk Chiffon Scarf The design of this beautiful silk chiffon scarf is inspired by the 1885 painting A Vase of Tulips by French impressionist Claude Monet. While Monet is perhaps best known for painting en plain air (outdoors), he also painted simple still lifes. These works often depict lush, blooming arrangements with a characteristic style that is focused more on the overall atmosphere and sensory experience rather than precise details. | Instead of a Card: Fourteen Poems about Kissing“Fourteen Poems about Kissing” is a title in the “Instead of a Card” series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one. Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires, can happen anywhere—on a train, in a city park or against a kitchen fridge. | Provençal Scented Savon de MarseilleSavon de Marseille is the authentic soap that has been made in the Provençal city of Marseille, following a strict recipe and method, for more than six centuries. These pure, natural soaps are unparalleled for skin care, as well as for stain removal. In France, the soap has been trusted for generations to cleanse everything from little faces to linens. | C.O. Bigelow Apothecary Box Packaged in an apothecary box illustrated with the iconic C.O. Bigelow storefront and Manhattan cityscape, each set features two of the chemist’s most popular formulas: Body Cleanser and Body Lotion. We are offering the duo in two fragrances: one is infused with the scent of lemon, the other with rosemary and mint. | Edward Gorey Dancing Cats: 300-Piece Puzzle We suspect this is what cats get up to when they’re left home alone. These felines—who can be found knitting, skating, balancing, and juggling their way through Edward Gorey’s book Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses—fit right in with the rest of his anthropomorphic animals and Edwardian eccentrics. Prolific artist and author Edward St. John Gorey published more than one hundred works, designed sets and costumes for the stage, and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. | ”If You Have a Garden and a Library” Tea Towel This stylish tea towel, part of a range of homeware designs launched at the renowned Royal Horticulture Show Chelsea in 2023, features a quote from Cicero. The tea towel measures 18.5" x 28.35" and is made of 100% natural organic cotton. There is a loop on the top left corner for hanging. Sustainably printed in the UK on organic fabric using Azo dye-free pigment inks; OEKO-TEX certified to European REACH standards. | Color-Changing Fish Umbrella This fun and practical children’s umbrella is illustrated with fish whose colors appear on contact with water and disappear once the umbrella is dry. Its transparent design enables the child to see where they are walking, and its manual opening is fitted with a protection system so it can be opened and closed without pinching little fingers. A colorful accessory, this umbrella is ideal for brightening up outings in the rain. | Build-Your-Own Springtime Mobile This kit has everything needed to create a large floral mobile. Recommended for ages seven and up, it would seem perfectly at home in a teenager’s bedroom or dorm room. First, the flowers and leaves are painted the eight gouache colors. Once dry, they are slid onto the wire to create colorful garlands. The garlands are then affixed to the pre-punched stand. Finally, decorate the mobile with the metallic butterflies to add a bit of sparkle. | Brown Betty Tea Pot and Tea Set “I would rather have nothing but tea.”
—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Since the seventeenth century, the Brown Betty has taken its rightful place as a time-honored design icon widely regarded as producing the perfect brew. We have paired the Brown Betty with two beautiful English tea tins—rectangular, with a hinged lid—containing forty tea bags of English Afternoon Tea, and forty tea bags of English Breakfast Tea, blended by a UK tea merchant. | Mini Tea Library Palais des Thés invites you to learn the art of tea tasting and discover some of its most iconic teas with the Mini Tea Library. The French tea house, founded in 1986 by Francois-Xavier Delmas, pioneered sourcing teas directly from tea growers, cultivating personal relationships with tea-gardens and farms across the world for more than thirty years. Palais des Thés is committed to sustainable, eco-friendly tea production while preserving ancient tea traditions and history. | Multi-Tool Pen This handsome aluminum six-in-one pen with black ink includes a ruler, level, and stylus, as well as flathead and Phillips screwdrivers. It’s presented in a handsome, retro-vibe gift box. | Prohibition and Repeal Amendments Rocks Glasses A pair of eleven-ounce rocks glasses: a witty and, yes, sobering reminder of the historical path to legal drinking in the United States. One glass is printed with a reproduction of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution; the other is printed with a reproduction of the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. | Red Moka Express Pot Experience the true Italian ritual of preparing a good coffee. This bold red Bialetti espresso maker combines the vintage design of the classic moka pot with unmatched Bialetti craftsmanship. The classic finishes, diamond-shaped knob, and elegant handle echo back to the moka pot of the ’60s, with a modern twist. | The World of the Romantics: 1,000-Piece PuzzlePiece together stunning moments of beauty and tragedy from the Romantic era with this 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, which features over twenty famous figures from Coleridge to Keats. | Whitman Square Inch Bracelet “Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch.”—Walt Whitman Whitman’s words are hand-cast on a 14-karat gold vermeil bangle (2.5" diameter, 0.125" width). There are three small 14-karat wire gold loops on the bracelet. The designer handcrafts her jewelry collection in a solar-powered studio in Southern California. She casts each design from reclaimed metals in a clay mold using the ancient art of lost wax casting. | Shakespeare Sonnet 116 Möbius Bracelet Several lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 are engraved on this sterling silver möbius bracelet: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! It is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wand’ring bark, whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.” | Monet Water Lilies
Silk Chiffon ScarfThe design of this scarf is based on the Nymphéas (”Water Lilies”) paintings made by Claude Monet of the pond at his home in Normandy. In 1924, he wrote, “It took me a long time to understand my water lilies… I grew them without thinking of painting them… And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.” | Van Gogh Sunflowers
Silk Chiffon Scarf This vibrant yellow, orange, and green scarf is inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers series, a set of seven paintings made in Arles, France, between 1888 and 1889. To Van Gogh, the sunflower, or tournesol (“turn to the sun”) symbolized gratitude. | Bring France home to your favorite Francophile. We’ve filled a panier du marché with five iconic and useful gifts with French DNA: a puzzle of a vintage Paris map; a notebook, said to be the one used by Julia Child to notate her recipes, from heritage brand Clairefontaine; a traditional net market bag; cocktail napkins with maps featuring Parisian monuments; and a guide to the quiet corners of Paris. | Depicted in a fourteenth-century fresco by Lorenzetti in Sienna, in a sixteenth-century engraving by Dürer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Blackbeard the pirate’s flag, and in countless other artworks and artifacts, the hourglass evokes not only the passage of time but also balance, the sky and the earth, the female figure, and more. | Perfection NYRB Baseball Cap Perfection: A virtue to strive for? An ideal to attain? An adjective that reminds you of something special? Or the title of the much-acclaimed NYRB book by Vincenzo Latronico—a scathing novel about contemporary existence, of two people gradually waking up to find themselves in various traps, wondering how it all came to be. Proclaim your love of the book, the goal, the quality, or any other meaning with our handsome black baseball cap embroidered with the stirring word in pale pink. | Fatale NYRB Baseball CapFor the passionnés de romans noirs, or a perfect gift for the nihilistic Francophile in your life... this cap features a deadly word, in an equally drop-dead hot pink font. Perhaps donning this word will strike passersby with interest or spark the same thrill and madness as the novel of the same name. By famed crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette, Fatale follows Aimée, an assassin and master manipulator who falls prey to a pure and wayward passion. Your wardrobe could use something just as “cool, compact, and shockingly original” (The New York Times). | Vintage Map of Paris:
1,000-Piece Puzzle The perfect gift for a flâneur: a virtual stroll around the City of Light. Assembling this bird’s-eye-view map of Paris is an enjoyable way to (re)familiarize yourself with the twenty arrondissements and their gardens, boulevards, theatres, monuments, and more (the abbatoirs are thankfully covered by the map’s label). Each major building and site is identified in the key on the lower part of the puzzle. The city depicted in this map is the post-Haussmann Paris. | Classic Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen We first read about this superb writing instrument in a Jon Robin Baitz New York Times interview, who said of the pen, “I thought it was a perfect little thing... I love its precision, its modesty, its clarity and its minimal fuss. This is the cheaper, more practical version of a Mercedes.” The esteemed Kaweco pens epitomize two essential features of a fine writing instrument: classic good looks and a beautifully smooth “write.” Yet there are many other reasons this model has been consistently lauded since its debut in 1933: more than nine decades later, it remains modern in design and sensibility, and efficient in function. | Little Friends Garden:
35-Piece Puzzle This colorful puzzle depicts little animal friends having a fun afternoon in the park. Put the puzzle together, then have fun playing seek-and-find by finding items from the border in the main picture. | Paper Maché Bowls Craft Kit These kits come with everything needed to make two bowls in different sizes, and the very beautiful results belie the ease of the process. Decorative paper pieces are simply glued on the plastic molds; the molds are transparent, allowing children to see where they’re placing the decorative elements. | David Levine Illustrations from the pages of The New York Review of BooksA print of a favorite writer, artist, historical figure, or personal hero makes a thoughtful gift for anyone on your list—or a striking addition to your own home or office decor. We offer framed prints of the hundreds of caricatures by celebrated artist David Levine that enriched the pages of The New York Review of Books for more than four decades. Choose among writers, artists, composers, poets, musicians, politicians, historical figures, pop personalities, and more. Pictured here are some of our favorite New Yorkers. clockwise from left: Edith Wharton, Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Adrienne Monnier, Margaret Fuller, Marina Tsvetaeva |
