Stainless Steel It
for high style gift giving. 

Industrial is back and you can find it everywhere from makeup cases to office accessories. Read the NY apartment want ads and you find lofts featured with stainless steel kitchens as the chic rental bi-line. So steel that gift and you will be presenting the perfect match everything gift. Whether it is a Vulcan stove, garden tool or contemporary vase it works in all environments and feels of long lasting quality. This old tech û high style retro sheen is usually not expensive and great for a man, woman or couple. One cool thing about stainless steel is that you can go as Industrial or curvy and sensuous as you like. 

Steal a Quick peak at some Stainless Steel gifts

Since the 1920Æs stainless has been seen as the metal for intelligent choice. No labor of polish and the range retro to contemporary lines makes a gift giving natural. The toaster, now practically a joke gift, was the wonder bridal gift choice of the 60Æs.  This cliche gift offered the warmth of hearth and a positive reflection of the future. I can see myself! TodayÆs stainless is more subtle and often less reflective. Brushed steel, popular on Zippos, and Refrigerator doors doesnÆt reflect but shows working strength of get the job done with intelligence and glamour.

During the last decade weÆve seen a mix of 50Æs clean lines, molded, cut out, dulled and reshaped in organic blends to make an arty higher end of stainless. Not seen since the early hip designers of the 1960Æs has stainless had such a rebirth of home use with world wide designers once again in the spot light. Keep an eye out for ItalyÆs Aldo Rossi, JapanÆs Kyoko Kumai and many American designers to wow us a few more times during this new decade.  On the conservative side, Martha Stewart has continued her Kmart line classic stainless steel pots and pans mixed with the adaptable metal texture of galvanized steel and smooth stainless steel serving trays. All classics redone again and again. 

Maybe this continual fascination with Stainless Steel can be partially attributed to our love of urban restaurant culture. Appliances, utensils, cookware and dinnerware, while practical, is crisp and strong and offers an air of contemporary cuisine to gourmet kitchens and youthful homes.  Airplanes, cars, machines have incorporate stainless steel for decades and our shiny surfaces are moving and gleaming as well so we can do important things. As we move more to polymers in our cameras, cars, and accessories maybe this is a grasping for something cheap, cold, strong and semi nostalgic. Remember Peter Sellers in the 60Æs movie I Love You, Alice B. Toklas one of the main ways they portray the Lawyer's affluence is to see him making coffee in his very American well equipt huge bachelor pad kitchen gleaming with Stainless steel everywhere. No Italian expresso machines yet but that Europe craze was to follow in the late 70Æs. 

Stainless Steel Knives
An odd gift but a very primordial and practical one. Pocket and hunting knives were given as signs of manhood to young boys for centuries , and like the Swiss Army knife, stainless knives are definitely one of the most popular all occasions gift for men around the world. Knives are particularly important to mention as we enjoy the shine of  Stainless Steel as a gift, because Sheffield the creator of Stainless Steel in 1918, used his new creation to start the world renown line of Sheffield cutlery.  Cutlery is one of the most value gifts for fine chefs and is often used at Culinary Awards Events as the ultimate trophy gift of respect. Steak knife, bread cutting and carving knives have continued to be a valued wedding gift for a prosperous family future. The French have an age old custom to dispel any negative feels of giving a cutting item as a gift. If you give someone a knife, sword or scissors, then the receiver must give the giver a penny to bring good luck and no misfortune to the user. 

Wedding Anniversary
Stainless Steel is also the 6th anniversary wedding gift of choice. White metal was considered very traditional for this wedding year and while aluminum could be given for this anniversary the clean stainless lusture is a good refection on a 6 year marriage history û a little blurry but still strong.