20th Anniversary

Twenty years is not nothing. It’s school runs and hospital waits and Sunday mornings that blur into one another and arguments that got resolved and ones that took too long to fucking resolve and inside all of that a choice that keeps getting made day after day. That’s what this anniversary is, so celebrate it with something that knows it. Traditionally, the gift for a twentieth anniversary is china. We love that. It feels right. There’s something about the idea that something can look so fragile and actually last. That it can take effort to keep beautiful things intact. We’ve curated some pieces here that respect that tradition without leaving you feeling like you’re buying for a museum. Things you’ll actually use, actually touch, actually live with in the life you and your partner have built. But we’ve gone beyond it too, because twenty years is worth more than one interpretation. Some of these gifts are about marking the occasion properly; the kind of thing that lands on a shelf or a mantelpiece and emits a quiet “we know what year it is”. Some are about welcoming the next chapter of your life with something new. Not every gift for an anniversary needs to be ceremonial. Some of the best ones are just an excuse to do something with your partner you haven’t done before. How we chose everything here is by asking ourselves whether it felt like enough. It sounds stupid but that’s harder than it sounds. There’s a lot of stuff out there that’s just a gift with a number slapped on. We didn’t want any of that. We wanted stuff that could only really be given at this one precise point in time by people who have been paying attention to someone who has spent twenty years putting in the effort. If you’re buying for your partner or a couple in your life that you love and want to recognise what they’ve built then this is where we would begin. Not because it is exhaustive but because everything here passed the same test. Would we give this to ourselves for twenty years? If the answer to that wasn’t yes then it didn’t get included.