Amber Lewis’s New Etsy Collection is the Holiday Whimsy We’ve Been Waiting For
These days we’re obsessed with nostalgia, whether it’s the clout of a boast-worthy flea-market find, or a TikTok feed chock-full of cottagecore whimsy. And there’s no moment when a longing for times gone by is more pronounced than during the holidays. While we haven’t solved time travel just yet, designer Amber Lewis knows just the way to hone that sentimentality as chicly as ever.
Today, the California tastemaker is dropping her new Etsy collaboration with 15 creatives, and it’s like stepping into the past—if not our own, one we wish we had been a part of. “I wanted this collection to feel very ‘heirloom,’ ” Lewis says. “These are the kinds of pieces you can pass from generation to generation, as they have a timelessness that goes beyond year-to-year trends.”
The collection, which Lewis says “resonates with my own memories of the holidays,” is a festive assemblage of earth-toned treasures that echo Lewis’s laid-back West Coast aesthetic. There are beige-hued knitted garlands and ornaments, newly cut garland wreaths, and carved-wood games in a medley of clays and woods and hand-stitched embroidery. Our favorites? The handmade geometric glass ornaments from a Berlin-based artisan, the marble wine chillers from Indian stone specialists, and the wooden checkerboard set from a woodworker in Montreal (now even Uncle Harvey will have something to do at the next family get-together).
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