Showing posts with label Hostess Gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hostess Gifts. Show all posts

June 18, 2011

The Best Hostess Gifts


It's summer! This means two things: you'll be visiting friends and you'll need to bring a housewarming gift. Here are some small treasures to make sure you get another invitation next year.

1. For your mom, a vintage oyster plate @ French Treasures.

2. For your college friends, The Original Moonshine whiskey, $40 @ Moonshine.

3. For the fashionista, a collection of coffee table books 'Hotel Il Pellicano'; 'Poolside With Slim Aarons'; 'Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time'; 'Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun,' all $85 @ Abrams Books.

4. For beach bums, a 'reserved' cotton beach towel. $65 @ Chance.

5. For happy-hour lovers, monogrammed linen cocktail napkins. $20 @ Wisteria.

6. For kids, a psychedelic bodyboard. $149 @ Wave Skater.

7. For design aficionados, four silver Josef Hoffmann corn-cob holders. $280 @ Neue Galerie.

8. For the lazy, a hammock hand-woven in Brazil. $120 @ The Conran Shop.

*image via wsj