The Christmas Edit

Eighteen objects from eighteen workshops, each made by hand by people with a name, a place and a reason for doing it this way. Most of them are available nowhere else in Australia.

From a $55 classical soap cast in London to an $850 set of Murano glass, one object from each workshop. Order by 16 December for Christmas delivery, or collect from the shop in Moss Vale.

Under $100

Bridie Hall · London

Diana Intaglio Soap

A classical relief of Diana, cast in beeswax-hardened white over a body of honey soap. The Grand Tour, brought home to the basin.

$55 Box of two 60g bars · three scents

Pygmalion · London

Marrakech Dinner Candles

Burnt orange and oyster, poured by hand in layers that run right through the wax, so the pattern keeps changing as the candle burns down.

$59 The pair · in many colourways

Antica Barbieria Colla · Milan

Almond Shampoo

Created in 1924 by Dino Colla for the Milan barbershop he opened in 1904, to a recipe passed down intact ever since.

$79 200ml

C.Atherley · Gloucestershire

Geranium No. 2 Hand and Body Lotion

Built on geraniums grown in a Gloucestershire greenhouse: warm mint, with clove and coriander underneath.

$79

Côté Bougie · Morocco

Raphia Maya Candle

The scent of Moroccan mint tea, in a raffia sleeve crocheted by hand in Morocco and left undyed.

From $85 Four sizes, to $600

Wazakura · Sanjo, Niigata

Koryu Ikebana Scissors

Black carbon steel from Sanjo, a metalworking town since the seventeenth century, with the crane-loop handle of one of ikebana's oldest schools.

$90

Kunjudo, via POJ Studio · Awaji Island

Hinoki Leaf Incense

Japanese cypress pressed into washi paper by the Fukunaga family, incense makers on Awaji Island since 1893.

$90 Five leaves

$100 to $300

La Soufflerie · Paris

Osiris Jug, Vert Fumé

A wine jug mouth-blown in Paris from recycled glass, wine bottles among it, by a workshop keeping the city's glassblowing alive.

$120

Ceramica Bevilacqua · Campofranco, Sicily

Barocco Candle Holder

Cast from a design hand-carved in wood by a Sicilian master of church ornament, and finished by a workshop of five family members.

From $140 Four heights, four glazes

Varek · Bordeaux

Enamelled Tray: The Mackerel

Hand-made enamelled aluminium, taken from the studio's own paintings of fish and shellfish. For the table, or for the wall.

$180

Siam Bronze Factory · Bangkok

Bronze Drink Buckets

Hand-cast in Bangkok by the Smutkochorn family, bronze makers since 1954. The patina deepens a little every time it comes to the table.

From $220 Ice $220 · wine $380 · champagne $680

Joume Atelier · Paris

Silk Scarf, Le Tigre

Alice Fraudeau makes each one by cyanotype, exposing the silk to the Paris sun over three days. Every scarf ends at its own blue.

$280

Giulio Giannini e Figlio · Florence

Leather Notebook, Caravaggio

Florentine leather, wrapped and tied, from bookbinders who have worked in the city since 1856, six generations on.

$280 Brown, red or black

$300 and over

Cellerini · Florence

Leather Toiletry Bag

From a first-floor atelier on Via del Sole with no shopfront: you press the bell and climb the stairs. Cut and stitched by hand there since the late 1950s.

$320 Avio, lavanda or mocca