By design, holiday gift guides are crowded affairs. Wish lists, stocking stuffers, and shiny things compete for attention. RH’s “Holiday 2025 Gift Guide: To Give & To Get” takes a more restrained approach. The company’s annual edit, released for the season, focuses on what it calls quiet luxury: sculptural shapes, tactile materials, and objects meant for daily use rather than display.
The selection resembles a map of the home, covering everything from living rooms to children’s spaces, and arranged with a focus on longevity. At its most eye-catching, the guide features furniture designed to anchor a space. The Vao Coffee Table, with its sculptural shape, serves as a centerpiece for rooms that value proportion and calm. The Waterworks Centuria Freestanding Oval Bathtub, a longtime collaboration, suggests that retreat can be a ritual; it acts more like architecture than decoration, meant to slow down time.
Alongside these standout pieces, RH highlights a layer of comfort meant to work across different interiors. The Italian Wool and Cashmere Throw Collection serves as the seasonal staple; it is soft, substantial, and presented as a daily treat. The color palette leans toward subdued tones, aligning with the brand’s preference for neutrals that feel like texture first and color second. This aligns with a winter mindset: warmth without showiness.
The children’s offerings follow the same principle. The Cabin Bed—part play structure, part sleeping area—combines fantasy with functionality, suggesting that design for younger spaces doesn’t have to be loud to be creative. This fits a broader theme of the guide: items that serve multiple purposes and do it quietly.
RH’s signature style is clear throughout. Materials are highlighted—stone, wood, wool, metal—while shapes favor rounded edges and generous surfaces. The guide’s selection avoids novelty for its own sake. Instead, it encourages thoughtful gifting: one big investment that transforms a room, or smaller items—throws and accents—that shift daily routines.
The framing, “To Give & To Get,” recognizes the dual nature of holiday shopping, where the desire to treat others often blends with the wish to enhance one’s own space. RH embraces that overlap openly, suggesting that gifts for the home are inherently communal. A coffee table becomes a spot for winter evenings; a bathtub serves as an end-of-day retreat; a throw invites you back to the couch.
Even in a season that often celebrates excess, the guide’s tone stays steady. The promise isn’t transformation through sheer volume but through choice: one sculptural table, one cozy bath, one perfect layer of wool and cashmere. RH argues that the effect is cumulative. Rooms become quieter. The eye finds rest. Use turns into pleasure.
For shoppers who appreciate this quiet approach, the Holiday 2025 edit provides a guide for the season: give something that lasts, get something you will use repeatedly, and let the holidays unfold at a slower pace—one well-made piece at a time.
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