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2023 studioTECHNE Gift Guide

The first annual studioTECHNE 2023 Architect Gift Guide is here! Architects are famously hard to buy for and known for their love of extravagant and impractical things. Who needs functionality when you can have a paperweight shaped like a cantilevered skyscraper or a coffee mug that leaks but looks like SCREENPLAY by the Oyler Wu Collaborative? We've scoured the internet to bring you the most pretentious, overpriced, and utterly unnecessary gifts that will leave your architect friends questioning your taste and their life choices. So, grab your chunky black spectacles and beret, because it's about to get architecturally absurd in here!

01.  desk accessories + utensils: 

medium blackwig slate notebook

mini materials 1:12 scale blocks

merchant no. 4 studio place for trace

02. coffee, coffee, coffee

stelton collar espresso maker 8.5 oz

03. playing cards:

Joe doucet minim cards

04. puzzles + blocks:

bryce wilner gradient puzzle

fort standard balancing blocks

Locknesters bear

05. [black] clothing + apparel:

Architecture sucks t-shirt 

Annotated façade t-shirt

Maven watches mus-03 black 30mm 

06. electronic accessories:

beats studio pro

logitech lift ergonomic mouse

black stylus pen for ipad

07. architecture + design books:

Digital Fabrications

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

The Vignelli Canon, bottom right: Digital Fabrication

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

08. kitchen + home goods:

audo cph salt & pepper grinder

cb2 rubber coated black vanity tray

obsessive chef cutting board

09. napping pillow:

ostrichpillow original napping pillow