Top Christmas gifts for the stationery lover in 2023

What are you wrapping this Christmas?

The best stationery for the organisers in your life

If there’s one thing the trifle* team agree on in life it’s that lovely stationery is one of the simplest ways of bringing some joy and satisfaction into the everyday. We are stationary lovers and proud of it. We know we’re not the only ones out there so it’s a obvious choice for Christmas gifting. Here are our top picks for Christmas Stationery gifts ‘23…

24 Doors of Desk Delights Advent Calendar

Ok, we’ve started big but it really is quite difficult not to featured this ultimate stationery present for that special organiser in your life. A whole stationery advent calendar brimming with extra special stationery treasures – including mini bestsellers and exclusive designs. We are SWOOOONING….

We applaud your work Papier!

Image shows green cardboard advent calendar. Inside there is a box for 24 days of Christmas in a green or blue in an assortment of shapes with stars on

Stationary advent calendar from Papier for a very special stationary lover

A purple, white, olive green and black abstract design features on the front of this daily planner for 2024

Who can function without a daily planner? Might as well make it beautiful!

Juno No. 1 2024 Daily Planner

No stationery list would be complete without a daily planner so this has to be high on our list. Family run book makers, ‘The Completist’ are usually our first port of call for planners as they never fail to disappoint and this year is no exception.

The inside sheets are crafted from music sheet paper, providing a unique touch. The soft cover is a luxurious, textured 250gsm G.F. Smith card, ensuring both elegance and durability. With 320 pages of delightful textured 90gsm Munken paper, this planner promises a premium experience.

Liberty Prospect Road Embroidered B5 Notebook

This exquisitely designed notebook has an embroidered cover for the perfect characterful and subtly luxe addition to anyone’s desk.

Bound and filled with lined pages, consider this your new go-to for flashes of inspiration – or for simply recording your brightest thoughts and ideas.

This notebook has been embroidered on the cover. It features an image of trees, grass and sky in a rainbow of colours

What’s more luxe than an embroidered notebook…?

Super pretty colour combos from Paul Smith

Paul Smith 849 Ballpoint - Warm Red & Melrose Pink

You can’t stop at a planner or notebook without buying a complementary pen can you? Introducing the Caran d'Ache + Paul Smith edition 4 849 ballpoint pen. Paul Smith has dressed up the icon of Swiss writing in perfect duo-tone palettes which really floats our boat. Each pen has a hexagonal body in light and resistant aluminium.

Portable and reusable, the colours of the boxes reproduce those of the 849 nestling inside.

Viarco Classics 1950s Pencils

Anyone properly into their stationary needs to have good pencils in their lives. These reissued classics are from the legendary Portuguese pencil company are a perfect stocking filler.

The boxes are beautiful and the pencils are quality. Each box contains 12 pencils, and they are all HB (except box D, which is a purple copier pencil).

Who wouldn’t appreciate this fantastic stocking filler?

For the planner who plans everything…

A5 Meal Planner

For the top organiser in your life, this A5 meal planner brings joy to the food week ahead.

Made from 100% recycled paper and hand-glued with green pigment, it's an environmentally friendly way to plan meals that also looks great! With a perforated tear-off grocery list and 52 pages to last one year, it's the perfect tool to get excited about meal-planning.

Cutting Mat Socks

For any designer, craftsperson or artist the cutting mat is not only a useful tool but it is also a much adored aesthetic and just happens to be the most festive green.

Soft, stretchy & one size fits all. Designed by Nik Bentel.

Images shows one green sock. The design on it is the same pattern you would find on a grid cutting mat a designer may use.

It’s a rule that you have to buy at least one pair of socks at Christmas

It’s not only beautiful pens that feature in the Cult Pens Advent Calendar

Cult Pens 2023 Japanese Stationery Advent Calendar

We love that advent calendars aren’t just limited to chocolate anymore. Here’s another stationery advent calendar for that very special stationery lover in your life.

This calendar takes inspiration from Japan and includes a host of goodies from popular Japanese stationery brands. We’ve taken a sneak peak at the goodies inside and it’s definitely well worth getting excited about!

Well, that’s our top picks for Christmas 2023! Whether you choose to buy for someone else, yourself or nothing at all, we wish you a very merry holiday and New Year ;) x

Author: Nadia Themistocleous, Lead Interior Designer, Trifle*

Nadia has worked with Trifle* for over seven years and has been the interior lead for some of our most ambitious projects to date including MVF, BenchSci and TriliTech. Prior to Trifle* and managing her own interior design company, she worked for a decade in advertising and the music industry creating and executing creative campaigns and events. She is passionate about translating our client’s culture, identity or ways of working into the spaces they inhabit ensuring that every space created for our clients is as unique as their business or home is.