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Gift Guide to Art Central

DeVille Luxury Coffee & Pastries
A thoroughly modern tea service, complete with Zak tray, teapot, diffuser holder and two Bodum glasses (only one shown), $69.50 (includes GST).  And if you like your caffeine on the dark side, Intelligentsia Black Cat Espresso, $11.50 (1/2lb).

INFUX Jewellery Gallery
“Coup de Coeur” enamel and copper locket by Kim Johansen, $780.

Uppercase Gallery, Books & Papergoods
Put some flower power in their stockings with a Repot Depot Journal, $19.95, and a rose pocket mirro, $6.

Studio Todorovic
Crayola is for kids — grownups deserve grownup art supplies.  Green paint $13.95,; red paint, $12.95; and assorted pens $9.50 each.  

Collage Gallery
A very prairie take on the cookie jar.  Grain elevator storage container by Carol Voyt, $205.  

Axis Contemporary Art

Just in time for the new biopic starring Michael Douglas.  “Liberace” woodcut by Calgary artist Lisa Brawn, $775.

Nation Toys & Tees
Today’s toy collectors are laughing all the way to the bank: (left to right) Miao & Mousabi’s Buff Monster, $100; tokidoki! Captain Coco, $35; and Bumble and Tweet’s TWEET “Candy Edition” by Julie West, $35.

PHOTOS by Brent Mykytyshyn courtesy of Swerve Magazine