Last minute gift guide
Time is ticking
San Diego Museum of Art
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San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
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Tip: For some of the best shopping in many cities, head to museum gift shops. It’s easy to forget that also holds true for San Diego. The San Diego Museum of Art gift store has the usual art books and exhibit posters, but also a huge selection of trendsetting gift items. Fans of Scandanavian minimalism will appreciate a stationary set by Lotta Jansdotter ($15.95). Momiji are Japanese folk-art dolls that have spawned their own collector subculture ($10.95). For digital art-and-music fans, check out the assortment of One Dot Zero DVDs, and Ibride trays ($65) are works of art in and of themselves.
Ibride tray
At the Museum of Photographic Arts, pick up a Lomographic camera (see www.lomography.com to find out what they’re all about). For a gift on the cheap, duck into the shop’s old-time photo booth and shoot some photos of yourself to put in Mom’s and Dad’s stockings. At the Museum of Contemporary Art (gift shops at both the downtown and La Jolla locations), pick up a set of ABC cookie cutters (stands for “already been chewed”) that produce gingerbread men missing heads, arms and legs. The Loopsey Wine Rack ($150), by award-winning designer David Quan, fits up to six bottles of wine. And Klein Reed hand-carved porcelain key pendants ($85) are modeled after vintage keys.
Published: 12/11/2007
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