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Jill Mead, Katherine Rose and PR

Last-minute Christmas gifts: culture

Culture Christmas gifts: Tracey Emin pin badge
A memento marking Emin’s Love Is What You Want show at the Southbank Centre.
Tracey Emin pin badge, £3, order by 20 Dec
Buy online at shop.southbankcentre.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Magnetic Personalities finger puppets
For the intellectually inclined, tiny magnets that you can also wear on your fingertips, designed by the Unemployed Philosophers Guild. Choose from Frida Kahlo, Darwin, Freud, Einstein and friends …
Magnetic Personalities finger puppets, £5.50, order by 20 Dec
Buy online at cathtatedirect.com
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Miniature paper theatre
Pollock’s toy shop is a pirate’s chest of old-fashioned treasures. These model theatres, a mere 9.2cm wide, can be cut out and made up.
Miniature paper theatre, £6.50, order by 22 Dec
Buy online at pollocks-coventgarden.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Record sleeves colouring-in book
Iconic covers by Blur, Bowie, Britney, Kylie, Bruce Springsteen … get out your Sharpies.
Record sleeves colouring-in book, £7.50, order by 19 Dec
Reader offer: enter the code GUXMAS11 for a 10% discount on all online Maiden products. Valid until 24 Dec
Buy online at maidenshop.com
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: David Bowie paper dolls
The makeup, the hairdos, the outlandish outfits – Ziggy Stardust and Bowie’s many other incarnations are all here. Also choose from Adele, Debbie Harry, Lady Gaga or Beyoncé.
David Bowie paper dolls, £7.50, order by 22 Dec
Reader offer: enter the code guard11 for a 15% discount on all online ILoveMel products. Valid until 24 Dec
Buy online at ilovemel.me
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Tate Artist Timeline
Designed by Sara Fanelli, this chart fills the concourse walls of levels three and five at Tate Modern – a graphic investigation of 20th-century art, reproduced on portable, pocket-sized card.
Tate Artist Timeline, £7.95, order by 20 Dec
Reader offer: enter the code MERRYGUARDIAN for a 15% discount on all online Tate products. Valid until 24 Dec
Buy online at tate.org.uk/shop
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Play Architecture playing cards
The Finnish Building Centre has come up with something every architecture buff will find entertaining. Gaudi is the king of diamonds and Zaha Hadid is the queen of clubs. Elsewhere, you’ll find Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bear Run and Richard Rogers’ Lloyds of London building.
Play Architecture playing cards, £8.50, order by 20 Dec
Buy online at ribabookshops.com
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Wuthering Heights plate
Mr Teacup makes beautiful crockery inspired by literature. Fragments of prose are written on porcelain, like an old love letter you never want to lose.
Wuthering Heights plate, Approx £8.87, order by 19 Dec
Buy online at etsy.com/shop/Mr Teacup
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy box set
Tomas Alfredson’s film of the le Carré story might have garnered more stars than there are in the sky, but the BBC’s 1979 TV adaptation is thought by some to be unsurpassed. Includes the sequel, Smiley’s People.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy box set, £8.99, order by 23 Dec
Buy online at amazon.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: National Treasures designer postcards
Twenty emerging designers, including Michael van der Ham, Louise Gray, Thomas Tait and Sibling, have contributed to this limited-edition pack of postcards, commissioned by the British Fashion Council. Proceeds will go to the Princess of Wales Charitable Trust.
National Treasures designer postcards, £9.95, order by 20 Dec
Buy online at liberty.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
A labyrinthine new tale in three parts, over two tomes, by the acclaimed Japanese author.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, £24.99 (for the set), order by 19 Dec
Buy online at guardianbookshop.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: The Art Museum
The definitive museum in a book, encompassing art from across the world in all its forms – from prehistoric paintings and Byzantine mosaics to Hokusai, Ai Weiwei and Cy Twombly.
The Art Museum, £80, order by 19 Dec
Buy online at guardianbookshop.co.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
Culture Christmas gifts: Kusama red balloon pillow
At 82, Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan’s pre-eminent contemporary artists. From February to June 2012, she will occupy Tate Modern in a spectacular, dot-filled retrospective. Pre-empt her show with this 50cm-long, soft sculpture, which comes in red on white and white on red.
Kusama red balloon pillow, £125, order by 20 Dec
Reader offer: enter the code MERRYGUARDIAN for a 15% discount on all online Tate products. Valid until 24 Dec
Buy online at tate.org.uk
Photograph: Staff and agencies
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