James Bond
You know the person. The person who has seen every movie. The person who has strong opinions about which actor was the actual Bond. The person who will stop you mid sentence to correct you about why Bond doesn’t actually order a Martini, he ‘requests’ one in Casino Royale. Shopping for them can be a minefield. They’ve seen it all, they know it all and will shame you for buying lazy gift shopping from ten paces.
Which is why we put this together. Bond fans don’t get enough love when it comes to merchandise. A lot of it isn’t great. It’s cheap, it’s expected and about as refined as that kids” Aston Martin that you’re pretty sure is made from plastic that they sell in petrol station gift shops. This isn’t us. We set out to find gifts that appreciated what being a Bond fan actually is. Sure it’s about fast cars and blowing things up but it’s also about style, humour and an indefinable swagger that has been copied and referenced for sixty years and never bettered.
It’s why everything in this shop has earned its place here. Books, barware, desk ornaments that don’t shout from the shelves but instead quietly reinforce how cool the owner truly is. We don’t do gimmicks and we don’t do tat with a laser gun carved into it. We looked for things that the kind of Bond aficionado would actually appreciate. The kind of gift that screams ‘I know who you are’ rather than ‘I typed James Bond into Amazon.’
Some of these will work for birthdays. Some of them work for Christmas when you realize your favourite male relative is almost impossible to buy for and you know they’ve watched every film on that watchlist at least twice. Some of them are perfect for the person who considers asking a bartender to make them a Martini a serious exercise in skill.
Bond endures because he is everything that we want to aspire to be. Sure the cars and the clothes don’t hurt but it’s his charm. His total confidence that he walks into any room and has no doubt that he is the best person in the room doing whatever needs to be done. The best Bond gift gives a sly wink to all of those things without actually sleazing up the room. We think everything in here does just that.