Hang the Stockings with care. HANDMADE CHRISTMAS STOCKINGScandinavian inspired bird hand screen-printed onto white cotton or natural linen and handmade in London. With a vintage style tape hanging loop.

House Christmas Calendar This modern yet magical countdown calendar allows you the fun of celebrating the anticipation of Christmas in a stylish way. No cardboard and cheap chocolate here folks.

Ragnheidur Tryggvadottir’s Christmas Ptarmigan ornaments celebrate Icelandic tradition. Ptarmigans were the traditional Christmas dish for Icelandic families that were too poor to serve lamb for the holidays. The birds have since become a luxury at Christmastime in Iceland, and are still enjoyed by families. The powder-coated steel ornaments debuted at DesignMarch.

Christmas Tree Blanket It's been triangle mania this year in design trends. Carry the trend through the holidays with this awesome Christmas tree blanket. Cool, urban, and modern.

Womens store 5th Avenue christmas 2007

From Brooklyn-based design studio Fort Standard comes this handsomely designed set of Balancing Blocks. Ten faceted, stone-sized shapes combine in myriad ways, letting children and adults alike create original sculptures. The set was tumbled in water-based paint and packaged in a cotton drawstring bag, ready for gifting.

The master bedroom. The diminutive dimensions of the private upstairs level are meant to push the Mariscals toward the common areas.

Little confusion over what this flipper is meant for.

In the original design, steel structural elements were meant to support a distinctive fabric roof but the material was not weather-resistant.

By the bed, the shelving pattern is meant to suit Vinciguerra’s tendency to read several comics and graphic novels at once.

Strategically placed plastic snakes are meant to keep seagulls at bay.

The abstracted tent here is meant to evoke the "Circus," the seat of British intelligence.

This place is meant for performance art, after all. Not pictured: the Crystal Room.

I love this three-branched Swedish candle, traditionally lit on Christmas ($75).

Beside a simple but spacious kitchen, the living area is meant to be warm and casual.

The rounded steel guardrails on the kids’ bunk beds are meant to inspire fantasies of nautical adventures.

The strips of cedar on the ceiling that fan out from the ridge beam are “meant to evoke the canopy of the surrounding conifers,” says the firm. The built-in cabinetry throughout is Sapele.

Paola Gracia keeps an eye on Kata, one of the couple’s schnauzers, from the second- story balcony. In the shade below the balcony is the dogs’ house, meant to mimic the Gracias’, that architect Jorge Gracia built from leftover building materials.

Sherry An, a student at Pratt, designed a rotating bookshelf meant to facilitate sharing between neighbors

The dark exterior wood cladding ensures the home blends more seamlessly with the site, while the flat roof is meant to recall "midcentury precedents," said the architects. The “sharkfin clerestory roof” feature transmits light into interior rooms.

This "local prefab" home on the Isle of Skye is made mostly from materials sourced in northern Scotland. The timber-framed model, meant to evoke the simple agrarian barns of the area, can be constructed on-site in as little as a day and is designed for affordability.

The natural materials used throughout the building, seen here in the cafeteria, are meant to reflect nearby Mt. Diablo.

Motta’s Caju, or “cashew” table is low-slung and meant to patina to an ashen hue over time.

“The staircase is the hub, the soul of the project,” Rogers says. “It’s meant to be enjoyed.” From the ground, the steps start with the cool colors of the earth, then get warmer as they reach up to the sky.

Ray Eames in the Eames House living room, Christmas 1949. The couple moved in on Christmas Eve with very little and furnished the home slowly over the ensuing decades. Photo courtesy the Eames Foundation.

With nary a traffic light in sight, Christmas Circle (a large traffic circle) welcomes visitors into the center of town.

The first spine and module house Peter Cohen designed was this one in 1961 meant for a family in Rochester, New York.

The little path lead down to the Valley, the section of the park meant to represent the forests of the Northwest and their fir, cedar, and ferns.

The shape of the window is meant to represent Pam.

This rendering of the Center for the Americas (Interama) by Spillis, Candella, DMJM shows a building and world's fair that was meant to unite the Americas.

The frame of an enormous 1950s Christmas bell decoration was transformed into a chandelier. “This project wasn’t about finding off-the-shelf fixtures,” says architect Michael Poris. “It’s about working with the client’s aesthetic.”

The custom towel rails in this bathroom are also meant to mimic branches.

Yun designed this curved handrail. To the side, a carved niche is meant to showcase art.

The Amelie bathtub from Rogerseller is meant to be an elegant, contemporary take on a claw-foot tub.