The Most Unique Mens Gift Idea I’ve Seen
You find so many so called “unique” mens gifts, but how unique are they?
I recently came across a wonderful website by an Israeli artist. She alerted me to her site by a comment on this site and I went to visit and have a look.
Her name is Nava Steinmetz and she produces “miniatures”. I have to confess that I didn’t quite know what a miniature was so I had a look at her website to find out and was very pleasantly surprised. On her site she describes the miniatures she produces as “a scene of reduced size reproduced in 3 dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc in front of a painted background”.
These miniatures are custom-made for individual customers tailored to the profession of the person for whom the miniature is made.
If you look at the examples on her website you can see extraordinary detail, right down to books with titles on them, and even computer screensavers. You can even see posters on the wall down to the finest detail. I’ve put some images here for you to see what I mean.
Basically what she is doing is recreating an office of any professional person in complete detail. If you look at the image above it’s actually a complete recreation of the actual office of the pharmacy owned by the gift recipient.
It seems that she will make miniatures on order for anyone, according to the order. I assume she works from a photo of the office that she is reproducing.
I was also pleasantly surprised by her prices. Looking at the examples it would seem to me that many hours of meticulous and painstaking work must go into producing just one of these miniatures, and I was expecting prices in the many hundreds of dollars. However those that I looked at were priced at $140.
I consider $140 for a personally handmade gift such as this to be exceedingly cheap. It is very rare to be able to buy unique handmade gifts of this quality by an artist with this sort of ability at anywhere near this price.
It is certainly a unique gift idea for a man who has everything. Maybe he is a lawyer or a businessman who can afford to buy anything he wants. Maybe you’re totally stuck for a unique gift idea for him. However I’m willing to bet that he doesn’t have a miniature like this.
It’s a fascinating website which you can find at The Miniature. Note that that address should bring up the website in English, though the main website is in Israeli script, and if you encounter this version then look for the small button at the top right to change the site to English.
So many products nowadays are mass produced, normally in China, down to a price and down to a standard. You think you’ve found a unique gift idea for your man and if you dig a little deeper you’ll find it in dozens of other stores online, and sometimes, annoyingly, at much cheaper prices.
This however I think it’s unlikely that you’ll find a gift idea for the man who has everything like this on a bunch of other sites. This really is a unique gift idea for your man.
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