THIS DOOZY of a year, the holidays have a pleasant sincerity to them, an escape from the excess of past Noëls. It seems tone-deaf this season to give someone you love a sterling tic-tac-toe set or an antique onyx inkwell. As ever, beauty and quality guided our editors’ choices of gifts for the interior-design-minded on your list, but utility and value also rated highly. No gift costs more than $300. And all will eagerly be put to use—the modernist rattan planters perhaps the next day, the wrought-iron candelabra, at that evening’s dinner.

A Toothsome Tooth-Care Package

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