Luxury Gifting Ideas For This Festive Season: How To Choose The Best Brands

With Diwali coming right around the corner, the festive season for showering your loved ones with gifts and surprises is finally here. There is no better time to purchase those little things that they may have had an eye on and celebrate the spirit of the season with a heart-warming gesture.

If you are looking to do something different this year and want to take it up a notch by making it memorable, we have just the perfect idea for you. Venturing through the concept of luxury gifting is less explored by the masses but is surely starting to gain more traction with more and more people looking to indulge in big brands to enhance their experience and opt for luxury brands for gifting, especially around the festive season.

Looking for that perfect gift at a time where everything is readily available online and one simple google click can literally take you through some fancy home accessory store in London to a vintage jewellery shop in Paris to well, any corner of the world until you’re tired of clicking around aimlessly, feeling even more confused than when you began and have hardly even made a choice.

Gifting can get tricky, especially when you do not quite know what you are looking for and just need a little nudge in the right direction that can help with choosing the right luxury gifting brand, considering you are making a big investment to make this purchase.

We have put together a simple guide for you to learn the various options for luxury gifts online as well as in stores and help you choose the best luxury brands for gifting this festive season.

To get a better understanding of the wide number of options available when it comes to luxury gifting, we have segregated this list into five main categories based on the nature of gifts.

Let us begin with the first and the most favored category of luxury gifts:

LUXURY ART AND SCULPTURES

There are very few gifts that are more memorable than the gift of fine art. It is a quaint talent to be able to cater to someone’s likings and choose a piece of art that is so personal, tasteful and perceptive. But before indulging in looking at art, it is important to have an understanding of their likes and passions in life so that you can pick out pieces that truly compliment their space and personality.

Adishwar Kumar Jain

If you are looking for contemporary yet unique pieces of artwork that are inspired by locations and countries around the world, have a look at torn paper collage artist, Adishwar Jain’s work. He creates stunning artwork through collages and paintings in a more sustainable way than the usual. All his pieces are made from newspapers, discarded magazines, old paper clippings and other such things to put together an epic visual.

He says the blend of patterns and colors comes from his inspirations while travelling around the world. Having been to over 15 countries, Adishwar’s work is a perceptive vision of his travels and he creates these pieces with the intent of reflecting real experiences through art.

His paintings have been featured internationally at Palace Art Gallery in England in 2017 and have been put on display at the Hall of Best Western organized by International Art Centre, Canada. Nationally, his work has been part of multiple exhibitions at top art galleries in India like Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, Birla Art Academy, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi and many more.

You can find his artwork and more about the artist here: https://www.luxuryabode.com/adishwar-kumar-jain/memid132

M Narayan

Speaking of luxury art for gifting, another popular artist whose work primarily revolves around the sport of polo and representing the rustic life of rural Karnataka, M Narayan is a contemporary Indian artist known for his unusual yet appealing style of paintings.

His paintings entail a burst of colors with bright hues of red, yellow, indigo blue and saffron orange to create a remarkable blend of designs resulting in a masterpiece. His paintings have immense depth and reflects on the human perception of the world through his eyes. His depictions have a mix of colors while showcasing the main subject by beautifully preserving its innocence through light and shadow.

His work has been purchased and commissioned by top industrialists and art enthusiasts like Dr Vijay Mallya, Mr Avinash Bhosale, Mr Jaydev Mody and many more.

With his remarkable artwork and perfect blend of spirited colors rooted in the Indian culture, M Narayan’s paintings can make for the most perfect luxury gift this festive season.

You can find his paintings and more about the work he does here: https://www.luxuryabode.com/mnarayan/memid139

Sharvari Luth

Apart from modern art, there are different types of art today that rules the creative world. One of these types being geometric art. Clean lines, defined shapes and a blend of complimenting colors that come together to form the most promising and satisfying artwork.

One such artist who not only specializes in creating geometric art paintings but also uses her art as a form of expressions is legendary architect and artist Sharvari Luth, who is a self-taught visual art practitioner and has her own studio called Studio ColorzOne based in Nashik.

Through two decades of being the field, she has garnered experience in exploring many different mediums of artwork but primarily specializes in acrylic and oil painting. Having made over 500 pieces of artwork and garnering prestige through her work, Sharvari Luth’s paintings have made it to many artists homes and office spaces like Shri Amitabh Bachchan, Hon. Ratan Tata, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar and many others.

Her paintings are exquisite and are known to be very visually appealing with its geometric patterns and colors, making it the ideal artwork for gifting.

You can visit her website to find and purchase her work: http://sharvariluth.com/#

Sang-e-casa

While art can have different ways and forms of expressions, one does not have to only stick to paintings in order to gift artwork. Another facet of art is the concept of creating sculptures. It has been a part of our Indian culture and tradition to create sculptures out of different materials while sticking to our main source of inspiration.

One such beautiful sculpture studio is Sang-e-casa, which is an exclusive space dedicated to creating the most unique pieces based on the universal fact that no two things are alike, be it leaves on a tree or pebbles on the ground. Beauty lies in the fact that every material is absolutely unique and therefore every piece of sculpture is created with that spirit.

The idea of building a creative space for sculptures was entirely the conception of Mr Munish K Gangwal who brings together the blissfulness of artists with nature.

The sculptures are made by sourcing rocks, pebbles and stones from the Himalayas and various other regions of Indian that are known for its rock formation patterns. The artists have complete freedom to put together their imagination and create different figurines solely based on design instinct. The result is then based on this creative instinct and nature’s unique offerings to make the most stunning sculptures.

Some of the key pieces include Yoga poses, Meditation poses, Gods, Animals and so on. After designing the pieces, they are carefully put through cutting-edge technology like acid-wash, carbon-welding and a stone powder top-coat to achieve that natural finish.

You can get your hands on these gorgeous sculptures here: https://www.luxuryabode.com/lux/sangecasa

LUXURY WATCHES AND JEWELLERY

One of the most luxurious gifts that has been ideally known for denoting class, exuberance and timeless evolution are watches. With a wide variety of brands offering beautiful vintage watches and classic luxury watches as part of their luxury gifting collections, it has become fairly convenient to find the perfect one.

One of the most loved collection of luxury watches is the Cartier Crash, which is popularly known for its asymmetrical exterior in fine gold and comes with a teakwood brown, black or customizable leather strap. Cartier has been at the forefront of creating intriguing luxury accessories from jewellery to watches. The Crash design is till date known to be the brands most radical design concept which makes it a truly rare and iconic timepiece.

Another great luxury gift idea is to purchase some beautiful jewellery pieces. Now while jewellery buying can be a tricky business, if you get it right it can make for the absolute best gift. Leading in the luxury jewellery brands list, Chopard is a Swiss brand that is popularly known for its pocket watches but also design the most aesthetic and luxurious jewellery pieces line in 18-karat gold and precious stones of the highest quality.

Their keen eye for details and design precision is what makes them stand out from the other brands and create the most stunning luxury jewellery.

BEAUTY AND WELLNESS

Around the festive season we see a lot of luxury brands gifting ranges that are exclusive and curated to be part of the limited stock edition. Where top food and beverage brands like Starbucks and Costa Coffee create their own customized boxes of delicious treats, coffees and cookies specially for the festive season, beauty and wellness brands today have started following the same trend of customized care packages.

With top brands like Forest Essentials, The Body Shop and Kama Ayurveda making their own custom care packages as part of their luxury gifting services has led to multiple other brands following their footsteps.

If you are looking to purchase some luxurious beauty and wellness products but do not want to go through the process of hunting down for the ideal products, these wellness brands curate the most well-designed care packages based on many factors such as skin type, fragrance or range where customers are then free to choose from what they would like best.

With plethora of new brands launching every day and existing brands extending their services across multiple ranges and platforms, the concept of luxury gifting is surely something that is gradually becoming bigger and better with time.