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While you're making your list and checking it twice this holiday season, don't overlook the MoMa Store as the perfect place to find gifts for the art lovers in your life. The Museum of Moden Art's store is a nexus of high design products, filled with innovative kitchen appliances and incredible prints. The items on sale are either created by famous designers and artists, like Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun, or inspired by iconic works of art, like the Magritte dishes. We browsed the museum's shop and picked out 15 Items to Buy at the MoMA Store this Christmas. With these artist approved gifts, you can't go wrong.
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BIKE ID Svart
Click Here To Buy It Now, $990
Art meets sports in this high-design bike. The streamlined machine is perfect for the urban hipster cyclist in your life, and its pure form makes it an art object on its own. Designed in Sweden, this bike is stripped to the bare minimum with only a two-speed gear, making it light (only 25 lbs) and beautifully efficient.
The James Bond Archives
Click Here To Buy It Now, $200
The perfect gift for any James Bond fanatic, this compilation includes never-before-seen photos and artwork. The book was compiled by editor Paul Duncan, who spent almost two years researching and sorting through over one million images and 100 filing cabinets of documentation over at EON Productions. This gift will make the most die-hard 007 fans go wild.
The Obsessive Chef Cutting Board
Click Here To Buy It Now, $26.00
This cutting board will make every chef a perfectionist, melding precision with culinary arts. Made of beechwood, this board helps you measure out every slice, dice, and chop in perfect dimensions. It might not make your cooking taste better, but it will sure look a lot prettier.
"Help Escape" Computer Cufflinks
Sometimes we all need help or escape buttons in real life. Created with a silver-plated bezel and a resin computer key, these clever cufflinks are a great way to modernize any suit and show off your sense of humor in the workplace.
The MoMA store has a wide variety of creative cufflinks, so be sure to check them all out.
Beer Connoisseur Set
Become a beer connoisseur at your very own home with this set of glasses that are intended to refine your drinking experience. The four distinct beer glasses are formed for optimal taste when drinking different types of beer. The glasses come in the following shapes: wheat beer, tall pilsner, lager, and beer tulip.
Toast It Coasters
This gift is easy on your wallet but clever enough to look expensive. Created by architect and designer Patricia Naves, these coasters employ cork to mimic the pattern of multigrain bread. With coasters like these, you'll never have rings on your tables again.
Yoshitomo Nara: Doggy Radio
Click Here To Buy It Now, $2,500
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara created these limited edition radios in his signature style, except this dog looks happier than many of his other works. Nara only created 3,000 of these radios, which explains their high price. This item fuses two of the designer’s favorite things: music and art, and it includes Bluetooth wireless, USB, and auxiliary sound input.
Olafur Eliasson And Frederik Ottesen: Little Sun Solar Light
Artist Olafur Eliasson teamed up with solar engineer Frederik Ottesen for a good cause—to bring light to the 1.6 billion people worldwide without access to the electrical grid. Made of plastic, a solar panel, and LED, these lights bring up to three hours of light after five hours in the sun. By purchasing one of these Little Suns, you make it possible for them to be sold in off-grid communities at locally affordable prices.
D'E-Light
Click Here To Buy It Now, $329
This sleek light is also an iPad, iPod, and iPhone dock, effectively making it the best new bedside item. Designed by by Eugeni Quitllet and Philippe Stark and made by Flos, this lamp has a chrome plated head and base. Bring some high design into your home with this modern form.
Magritte Plate Set
MoMA's exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 has brought the surrealist artist's work into the museum's hallowed halls. Now you can take home your own Magritte with this set of art-inspired flatware. Featuring Magritte's images from Le bouchon d'epouvenate (The Horror Cap), La Le Sourire du Diable (The Smile of the Devil), Le bain de cristal (The Cut-Glass Bath), Ceci n'est past une pomme (This is not an apple), and La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images), this gift is perfect for any fan of art history.
Record Watch
Click Here To Buy It Now, $165
One of Achille Castiglioni's last designs (in collaboration with Swiss graphic designer Max Huber) is now available at MoMA. The lust-worthy watch comes with interchangeable brown and black leather straps, so it can be worn literally every day.
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari: I Love You Mug
Maurizio Cattelan's retrospective at the Guggenheim, "All," included every work by the artist hung from the ceiling of the museum's rotunda. The show was stuffed with strange and disconcerting imagrey—a giant elephant covered in a sheet, a likeness of the pope hit by a meteor. Now you can take home one of Cattelan's surreal visuals with this mug. Pulled from Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's magazine Toilet Paper, this mug says "I Love You" in a way only art lovers will appreciate.
Check out the rest of Cattelan's collection for MoMA here.
Chairs Game
Inspired by Ai Weiwei's stacked sculptures, which include chairs and bicycles, the Chair Game lets you play artist. This game includes 15 miniture chairs to stack into tiny sculptures, allowing you to form the pieces in any way you see fit.
Constructible Drinking Straw
This straw presents a new kind of drinking game. Created by New York designer Frank Frisari, the different parts of this product allow you to shape your straw however you wish, taking the Crazy Straws of a '90s childhood to the level of high design.
Cube Clock
Designer Natalie Sun created this sleek Cube Clock. Sound activated, the clock responds to snapping or tapping, and will turn off after three minutes. Without its illuminated numbers, the clock becomes a minimalist sculpture in your home. It also has alarm clock and dimmer functions.