Gifts for travelers: art of the places they love
Travelers are hard to buy for. They'd rather spend on the next trip than own more things, and souvenirs end up in a drawer. Art of a place they love is the exception: it goes on the wall, and every time they walk past it they're back on that street.
Marie's flower-market series pairs each city's landmarks with the flowers that grow there. Here's how to choose one for the traveler in your life.
By Marie, Kitsune Design Studio
Their favourite city
Start with the place they never stop talking about. Most travelers have one city that changed them: the one they studied in, honeymooned in, or keep going back to. A print of that city says you were listening.
Each flower-market piece pairs a city's landmark buildings with the flowers that grow there, so it reads as that place even to someone who has never been.
The trip they just came home from
A print of the place they've just been is the nicest welcome home. It catches them while the trip still feels close, and it gives the photos on their phone somewhere to live.
Not sure which city? Ask what they'd go back for. If the answer is the food and the sea, look at the Amalfi Coast and Santorini; if it's temples and gardens, look at Kyoto and Seoul.
For anyone who has fallen for Japan
Japan gets under people's skin. Our Japanese pieces follow the seasons there: cherry blossom in Tokyo and Osaka, gardens in Kyoto, Mount Fuji in spring and Kyoto under snow.
If they've been more than once, give the set of six so they can hang the whole journey together.
Japan Flower Markets, set of 6A ready-made wall, already discountedA wall for the trip of a lifetime
For the big trip, the gap year or the honeymoon that crossed half of Europe, one print isn't enough. A set of matching cities becomes a travel wall: hang them in a row down a hallway, evenly spaced, and it reads like a route.
Our sets are already discounted, and every download comes in every common print shape, so the whole row lines up whatever frames they choose.
European Flower Markets, set of 8A ready-made wall, already discountedA custom piece of a place that matters
If their place isn't in the shop yet, it can be. The town they grew up in, the island where they got engaged, the city they moved across the world for: Marie can paint it in the same style, with the flowers that grow there.
A commission takes a little time, so start a few weeks before the occasion.
Last minute, or already on the road
A download is the best last-minute gift we know. The files are ready the moment you pay, in every common print size, so you can print it locally and frame it the same day, or forward it to a traveler who is between homes.
If you'd rather it arrives ready to hang, choose a framed print and enter their address at checkout.
Questions
- What is a good gift for someone who loves to travel?
- Art of a place they love: their favourite city, the trip they just came home from, or a set of cities for a whole journey. It goes on the wall instead of in a drawer and brings the trip back every day.
- Can I get art of a city that isn't in the shop?
- Yes. Marie paints commissions of places that matter to you in the same style, with the flowers that grow there. Start a few weeks before the occasion.
- Can I send a framed travel print straight to them?
- Yes. Choose a framed print or poster, set where it ships in your cart, and enter their address at checkout. Every print is made to order.
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