TasteTV Gift Guide: 8 Luxury Selections to Upscale Your Home & Kitchen

When it comes to your home or kitchen, upscaling to luxury can often be found in a few, very well-selected items. TasteTV has scoured the world for some choices that we think will help you level up your environment for living,  for cooking, and for relaxing.

Frieling Copper Fondue Set

Whether you decide to cook with this or make it your latest architectural accent on a table or shelf, this copper fondue pot is certain to turn heads.

The fondue pot is versatile, and can be used for cooking meat and vegetables in oil, wine or broth, and of course for melted cheese or chocolate.

The set includes fondue pot and base, paste burner holder, splash guard and six color-coded fondue fords.

Find it here.

Click & Grow SMART GARDEN

End the days of trying to grow limpy, pale herbs and vegetables on your windowsill with the Click and Grow Smart Garden. Finally an indoor garden kit that looks good and works well, especially for those who want to grow more than 1 crop over the entire year.

Originally inspired by NASA’s attempts to grow fresh food in space, other cool Smart Garden features include:

  • A wide selection of pre-seeded plant capsules with over 40 types of fresh herbs and fruits
  • Grow everything you eat pesticide-free.
  • The Smart Garden soil uses patented nano-tech growth medium that accelerates the plant growth without jeopardizing quality
  • Can be used in kitchen, living room, office or lobby

Side benefit, the built-in LED grow light might just help you knock off any of those blues from being indoors too much.

Find it here.

Agraria AirEssence

If you love the look and smell of fresh flowers, and wish they could last for over 6 months, the Agraria AirEssence could make your dreams come true.

The AirEssence diffuses through sola flowers created by skilled artisans using the dried peel of the tapioca plant that is sewn onto a cotton wick. (seen here in Bitter Orange)

The shape of the vase and the glass plate that goes underneath it, along with a glass bottle stopper, are both very well-designed as well as eye-catching.

So nice you just might consider making it a gift… and then change your mind and keep it.

Find it here.

L’Occitane Soaps from Provence

French soaps from the Provence region have long been considered signs of luxury and taste, and for good reason. They smell fantastic and make your skin feel great.

L’Occitane en Provence has a collection of shea butter savons the clean without drying, and are derived from traditional recipes of the region’s great master soap makers.

This particular collection comes in a box designed by French fashion house Castelbajac.

Find them here.

Ecuadane Blankets & Throws

Ecaudane says these are their EVERYWHERE blankets, good for the home, beach, camping, picnic, or for all around comfort. But we disagree. We say these are our NOT GETTING UP blankets. Good for sitting on the couch, lounging on a chaise, lying on the bed, and displaying on the arm of your favorite chair.

That’s right. Once you get under one of these soft and comfortable colorful blankets, you’re going to stop calling them blankets and start calling them ‘throws,’ and then you’re going to throw one on top of your lap and not move for several hours.

That’s luxury!

The colors are a blend of traditional designs as well as modern elements, and Ecuadanes are made by native Otavaleños living in the Andean volcanic mountains of Ecuador from a carefully balanced blend of alpaca and synthetic materials.

Find it here.

WOLL Diamond LITE PRO Sauce Pot & Skillet

Not every home chef knows about WOLL pots and pans, but they probably should. Especially the Diamond Lite Pro line.

It’s called “Diamond” for a reason. The line features stainless steel handles and WOLL’s patented diamond-reinforced non-stick coating. The surface gives excellent heat distribution for browning, searing, and even frying. The pots and pans are also dishwasher safe and oven safe up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

We also are big fans of the brushed metal surfaces, which offer a high quality tactile experience. Not a minor thing when you’re the one holding the pan.

Other features related to the diamond cooking surface:

  • Ultra hard diamond crystals embedded in non-stick surface make it the most cut and scratch resistant coating available
  • Diamonds conduct heat 4 times better than copper and brown food quicker; integral, threaded brass insert ensures the handles stay tighter Longer
  • Natural non-stick properties of diamonds makes clean up easier, improves the release of food

Find it here  or at Williams Sonoma

Agraria Lavendar & Rosemary Hand Soap

Carry the scent of lavender and rosemary with you after each visit to the washbasin, with this Liquid Hand Soap from Agraria San Francisco.

Cleansing and moisturizing, it makes a rather large amount of lather per dollop, and is 100% uni-sex.

Made from a blend of wheat proteins, panthenol and botanical extracts of sage, rosemary, goldenseal, geranium, horsetail and gingko biloba.

You’ll find yourself looking forward to your next trip to the sink.

Find it here.

Award Winning Artisan Fragrances

Make your scent one-of-kind with these award winning artisan fragrances from some of the year’s most talented perfumers.

These handcrafted aromas have all been rated by judges for the annual Artisan Fragrance Awards, and won’t disappoint.

From left to right:

  1. Cloud No. 9 by Xyrena
  2. DSH Perfumes Special Formula X
  3. Pink Wood April Aromatics
  4. Amalfi Man by En Voyage Perfumes
  5. Nile Flora by V’Tae Parfum
  6. Charis by PK Perfume