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Let Our Gift Guides Make Your Holiday Season Bright, Cheery, and EasyView 14 Photos

Let Our Gift Guides Make Your Holiday Season Bright, Cheery, and Easy

If you’re overwhelmed with choice, let us take you by the hand and lead you to the best design gifts around.
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Once again, the holiday season is upon us, and it’s time to start the search for what to give your nearest and dearest for whatever it is you celebrate once the weather turns. Our picks for what to buy for your loved ones this year are design-forward, cheeky, and joyful—we managed to find something for everyone, from your 14-year-old cousin to your cantankerous, Apartamento-reading aunt with her finger on the pulse of almost everything. Take a deep, yogic breath, and relax. It’s just presents, after all! Here are some guides to make this time of year a little easier.

These Are the Best Furniture and Homeware Deals in Design Within Reach’s Holiday Sale

Those pieces you’ve been coveting from Knoll, Herman Miller, Hay, Muuto, and more are all up to 25 percent off right now.

Those pieces you’ve been coveting from Knoll, Herman Miller, Hay, Muuto, and more are all up to 25 percent off right now.

If you’re buying toilet paper and cat food in bulk, might as well add some of these gifts to your list too.

If you’re buying toilet paper and cat food in bulk, might as well add some of these gifts to your list too.

These tiny treasures are just the thing for those who are hard to please.

These tiny treasures are just the thing for those who are hard to please.

Buy someone you love something they’ll love, too, including a lamp so stylish you won’t believe where it’s from.

Buy someone you love something they’ll love, too, including a lamp so stylish you won’t believe where it’s from.

These gifts are perfect for the discerning aesthete in your life.

These gifts are perfect for the discerning aesthete in your life.

Presents so niche that they’ll never be regifted.

Presents so niche that they’ll never be regifted.

That man you need to buy a present for has enough socks.

That man you need to buy a present for has enough socks.

Practical, fashionable, and just the right amount of indulgent, these ideas are just as exceptional as she is.

Practical, fashionable, and just the right amount of indulgent, these ideas are just as exceptional as she is.

Treat the gourmand in your life to our top cuisine-themed picks.

Treat the gourmand in your life to our top cuisine-themed picks.

Difficult people who are particular about everything deserve presents, too.

Difficult people who are particular about everything deserve presents, too.

Finally, some pet accessories that are cute enough to keep out.

Finally, some pet accessories that are cute enough to keep out.

Toast-worthy ideas for coffee connoisseurs, mocktail mixologists and everyone in between.

Toast-worthy ideas for coffee connoisseurs, mocktail mixologists and everyone in between.

Bonus: if your teen doesn’t like these gifts, you can probably keep them for yourself.

Bonus: if your teen doesn’t like these gifts, you can probably keep them for yourself.

Illustration by Vanessa Branchi

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