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As the holiday season starts up, AZURE is here to make your shopping easy with our 2024 gift guide featuring 21 ideas for what to get the architects, interior designs and other creatives in your life.

This year, we’ve sorted our selections into three geometric themes that speak to different types of design personalities — from rigid modernists to free-spirited post-modernists and the hyper-experimental contemporary design crowd. We’ve also made sure to source a range of different price points that will work for everything from office Secret Santa exchanges to big splurges on your significant other. No matter which gift you opt to go with, so long as you stick to our 2024 guide, it’s already shaping up to be a great holiday season. Scroll down to start checking off everyone on your list.

Oh, and another great 2024 idea when it comes to gifts for architects? A subscription to AZURE.

All prices are in CAD unless otherwise specified.

Clean Lines
Disciplined geometry brings a strong sense of rigour to holiday shopping
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Fem bowl by Normann Copenhagen
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this angular steel fruit bowl shown with a pile of grapes.

In-season fruit is a sight to behold. Unripe bananas, not so much — unless, perhaps, they are arranged in this striking pentagonal vessel. (It turns out “fem” is Danish for “five” — great design, and a vocab lesson!)

$135 at Guildhall Home

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Aluminum bird feeder by Goodland
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this angular steel bird feeder, shown with a hand pouring in bird seed.

Thom Fougere’s pitched-roof abode promises to woo even the most discerning of speckled warblers.

$165 at Goodland

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Molino grinder by Hem
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this wooden pepper mill featuring a blocky top and cone-shaped base.

A monolithic spice mill by Mexican designer Fabien Cappello delivers a welcome twist on a familiar tool.

$210 at Hem

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Flute picture frame by Umbra
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this picture frame featuring a fluted glass frame supported by a stem that finishes in a round black bead.

Two panes of ribbed glass encase modern masterpieces in a shapely reimagining of an artist’s easel.

$25 at Umbra

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Original card holder by Rimowa
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this green metal wallet by Rimowa.

Roll up to checkout counters with an aluminum wallet that also blocks the RFID and NFC scanners used by electronic pickpockets. Choose from three colours: black, silver or the mossy green Titanium shown.

$375 at Rimowa

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Grooves bookends by Ethnicraft
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide are these brown wooden Ethnicraft bookends.

This pair of dark brown–stained hand-carved mahogany shelf props is ready to hold its own against any architecture library’s heftiest tomes (S,M,L,XL, we’re looking at you).

$320 for set of two at Gabriel Ross

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Metal Cubes table calendar by Zara Home
One of Azure's top gifts for architects from our 2024 guide is this desk calendar featuring steel cubes resting on a wooden podium.

Some people say that going into the office is important for collaboration. We say it’s important for the calming daily ritual of adjusting the blocks on this oak and aluminum desk ornament.

$45 at Zara Home

Cool Curves
Seven shapely silhouettes ready to round out anyone’s wish list
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True Round Thinline Les Couleurs watch by Rado
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this orange wrist watch.

Hurtling from one time zone to the next on the design week circuit can be disorienting. Keep important meetings (not to mention negroni hour at Bar Basso) top of mind with a wristwatch in a bright Aperol hue.

$2,800 at Rado

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Itsumo Yunoki oval serving plate by Alessi
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this patterned serving platter.

A memorable statement platter brings a deeper sense of place to table settings. Naoto Fukasawa fine-tuned the proportions while the late artist Samiro Yunoki devised its graphic pattern.

From $65 at Studio Pazo

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OnTrac headphones by Dyson
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this pair of orange headphones.

Listen to Charli XCX (or a podcast about the rise of Brat style) with the latest in noise-cancellation tech.

$700 at Dyson

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The Pill travel cooler by Coming Soon
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this two-toned green and yellow wine bottle chiller.

Toast the landscape architect behind your favourite park while drinking alfresco with Castor’s bottle chiller.

US$145 at Coming Soon

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Chunky wine glass by Gustaf Westman
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this hourglass-shaped pink wine glass.

Sure, you could fill this hand-blown stemware with Cab Franc — but what it really craves is bubbly piquette.

€85 at Gustaf Westman

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Perdição Pontos cushion by Roche Bobois
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this patterned pillow featuring pink polka dots and colourful swooshes on a black background.

Designed by exuberant Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, this embroidered pillow is a cozy accom-paniment to a long winter nap. (Expect visions of sugar plums to follow.)

$270 at Roche Bobois

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Bell portable lamp by Tom Dixon
One of Azure's top gifts for designers from our 2024 guide is this orange lamp by Tom Dixon featuring a domed top resting on a cylindrical base.

When he first hit the scene, Tom Dixon was known for two things: his bass playing and his industrial style. But like any enduring star, the man knows how to reinvent himself. Here’s the latest from his glossy pop era.

$350 at Gabriel Ross; $360 at Ssense and The Modern Shop

Twisted Turns
Wavy treasures prove that gift-giving doesn’t need to follow a conventional path
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Lukus vase by Cyrc

Digital fabrication meets handcrafted production in Montreal studio Cyrc’s ruffled vessel. First 3D-printed as a simple cylinder, the design is then heated and moulded into its final silhouette.

$110 at Cyrc

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Karla bag by Marimekko

Sweet tooths, rejoice: Not only is Anna Werner’s elegantly pinched leather purse modelled after a candy wrapper, but the interior includes a zippered pocket ready to hold your secret Hi-Chew stash.

$370 at Marimekko Vancouver (in gold)

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Gale candle holder by Ferm Living

Capture the swirling motion of the wind in recycled cast aluminum — the next best thing to Twisters in IMAX.

$65 at The Modern Shop

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Luggage tag by Dusen Dusen

The Memphis revival rages on with this postmodern suitcase accessory made from recycled leather.

US $30 at MoMA Design Store

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Everything Nice butter dish by Areaware

Sophie Lou Jacobsen’s rippled podium takes the prize
for best butter sculpture.

$95 at Simons

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Opaline placemats by Gohar World

Channel Laila Gohar’s memorable design week feasts by elevating festive dinner parties with these scalloped placemats made from shahi, a striped Egyptian heritage fabric.

$105 for set of two at Ssense

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Dog toy by Hay

Just as important as teaching dogs the art of tug-of-war is teaching them the merits of good design. Accomplish both feats with this coiled rope toy featuring a decidedly au courant colour palette.

$30 at Finnish Design Shop

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Need even more gift ideas?

Looking for even more 2024 suggestions for gifts to get the architects in your life? Check out our holiday gift guides from 20232022 and 2021 for more roundups of design-savvy stocking stuffers.

AZURE Holiday Gift Guide 2024: 21 Top Gifts for Architects and Designers

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