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THE GIFT SHOPPE

The Gift Shoppe

G&G Family G&G Interiors Nashville

Whatever your home decor vision may be, the team at G&G Interiors has you covered. Since opening in Knoxville in 1998 and Nashville in 2016, G&G has grown from a gift shop and small design business to one of the largest luxury home furnishing showrooms in the region.

Tell us about you. We have been in business for eight years, and we have been in Nashville forever.

What's your favorite thing about being a business owner in Nashville?

Nashville has a big heart, and we love each of the friendships we have made in this genuine community.

G&G INTERIORS NASHVILLE 6033 TN-100 Nashville, TN 615-457-2275 Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

gg-interiors.com Tell us about the product we're featuring in the gift guide. What makes it a great gift? Trudon candles are a signature gift at G&G, and we love this year’s new holiday scent, Altaïr. And Charbonnel et Walker chocolates were not only favorites of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, but have quickly become some of ours as well.

What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one?

We like to envision our loved one’s favorite spaces and places and treat them to something special.

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KAREE HAYS ESTHETICS 2309 Crestmoor Road, Suite 200, Nashville, TN 615-383-5053 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. kareehays.com

Karee Hays

A Nashville native, Karee Hays opened her skincare clinic in 2010, offering a variety of products and services tailored to each patient’s specific needs and goals.

Karee loves creating a platform that also allows her to solve problems, hire the best of the best and share expertise and knowledge with others.

What makes this a great gift? The KH Mega Glow Bundle never disappoints! The bundle includes the original KH Koji pads that we customize to your skin type and target needs, our KH Sheer Shine Pads that lift and unglue dull dry skin, KH Dream Cream with antioxidants and peptides, and our KH Advanced Brightening Scrub. Bye-bye brown spots and dull skin. Hello glossy, radiant, hydrated skin!

to put your money in products — the specialized products that have the right ingredients to create change and cellular turnover and the products you can get at your local drugstore.

Karee Hays Esthetics

What services can the community expect when they visit your clinic? Our initial consultation plays a huge part in customizing a treatment plan with services and products that uniquely customize products to your skin.

Our goal is to educate you on what does what and where

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What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one? Giving gifts is actually one of my favorite hobbies. I love finding something special and unique, wrapping it beautifully and watching the recipient open the gift. I keep a list in my notes throughout the year for the people I shop for, and if I hear them mention something they find interesting or would like to have, I quickly make a note. Works like a charm.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? If I am being totally honest, it's after we open the presents and have brunch — we all pile in the living room and watch Talladega Nights. We have literally done this for years and laugh at the same things over and over.

Any fun hobbies? I became a grandmother this year, and I live for Thursdays when I get to keep my grandson. He and "Birdie" (me) have a ball, and he is my new favorite hobby!

GUS MAYER 2132 Green Hills Village Drive, Nashville, TN 37215 (615) 383-4771 Monday-Saturday (November 27-December 23) 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Christmas Eve 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. gusmayer.com

Janice Elliott Designer Buyer for Gus Mayer

What's your favorite thing about being a buyer in Nashville? Gus Mayer gives back to the community, and we are proud of our community involvement with events like the Nashville Symphony Fashion Show (benefitting the Symphony), Cause for Paws (benefitting Nashville Humane), and other various local charity events.

What can shoppers expect when they visit your store?

Our sales team emphasizes customer service, and customers can expect one-on-one shopping assistance in the store. In addition to our current season styles, we often have trunk shows and events in-store where customers can preview and pre-order from future collections. We often host designers in-person at the store

Gus Mayer is a women's specialty store carrying a range of both designer and contemporary brands. Founded in 1900, the original Gus Mayer store was located on Canal Street in New Orleans, followed by Birmingham in 1922, and Nashville in 1990. Designer buyer Janice Elliott has called Nashville home for over 40 years.

for trunk shows, which adds to the customer experience because we can often personalize and create special orders with the designer present.

Tell us about the product we're featuring in the gift guide. What makes it a great gift? Our best-selling fragrance is Maison Francis Kurkdjian's Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait. This scent is powerful, without being heavy, which makes it an excellent fragrance gift choice for both him and her. It's sophisticated, floral, and woody, and the scent is so wildly popular that MFK has created a range of products in the same scent – we carry a collection of Baccarat Rouge 540 products at Gus Mayer – including candles, hand lotion, hand soap, body oil, and more.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? I enjoy spending time with my family during the holidays. I also enjoy when people come into the store for holiday gifts and being a part of so many family's holiday traditions. We have a long standing tradition of being a gift resource and love seeing gifts that people got from Gus Mayer!

What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one? We always recommend considering someone's interests and style to choose something that aligns with their taste. Consider the latest trends, and check with the sales team for personalized recommendations – they always have the best information and customer feedback on the best gifts for the season.

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Kuhn Rikon

Ken Thwaits

The first Kuhn Rikon store in the United States opened in the brand-new Tanger Outlets mall in Antioch this fall, offering pressure cookers, fondue pots and other cookware. In addition to the storefront, the Swiss-based brand established its American headquarters in Nashville.

Franklin Road Apparel is housed in a former fire station in charming downtown Franklin, which owner Ken Thwaits calls home.

Shoppers can expect to find a collection of quality clothing and denim for men and women, plus leather goods and boots.

What can shoppers expect when they visit your store? If you visit the store on a typical weekend day, you will find one of our associates demonstrating a signature item. If you are lucky, you will be there on a fondue day! There is nothing better than traditional Swiss fondue. We offer giftwrapping along with unique gift ideas for anyone who loves to cook.

Tell us about you. My family and I moved here 17 years ago and opened our store in 2017.

KUHN RIKON 4060 Cane Ridge Parkway Building 3, Suite 112 Antioch, TN 615-639-1022 Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. kuhnrikon.com

Tell us about the product we're featuring in the gift guide. What makes it a great gift? The Cheese Fondue Set features the Ibex, a common goat found in the Alps. The pot and plates are handmade and hand-painted in the traditional Reinfelder factory we own, which is one of the last ceramic factories in Switzerland. Each step in the creation of the items involves a high level of craftsmanship and skill.

And each piece is one of a kind.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? Traditional Swiss fondue served before Christmas dinner.

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Franklin Road Apparel

What's your favorite thing about being a business owner in Nashville?

I love being able to provide a unique buying experience to people in our community — and creating an environment they won't find anywhere else.

FRANKLIN ROAD APPAREL 508 W Main Street Franklin, TN 615-540-5198 Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. franklinroad.com

What can shoppers expect when they visit your store? We offer a wide variety of styles for men and women — business casual clothing, raw denim items and quality everyday pieces.

We also carry a few local brands, like Iron Home Collective, Nic & Maude and Nashville Denim Company.

Tell us about the product we're featuring in the gift guide. What makes it a great gift? We wanted to feature a new brand we are carrying called CLOSED, based out of Hamburg, Germany. The brand is focused on sustainability and produces great flannels, jackets and denim. Its pieces will last a lifetime!

YEARLY CO. 2209 Bandywood Drive Suite E Nashville, TN 615-651-0971 Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. yearlyco.com

Ann Williams Yearly Co.

Tell us more about you. I learned how to make our family's gold anniversary bangles in a metalworking class at Vanderbilt University (my alma mater!). Vanderbilt is what brought me to Nashville in 2004, and I’ve loved living here and watching the city grow. Yearly Co. has grown to 20 employees in Nashville, and I love spending time bouncing between our headquarters and studio on Music Row, our retail store on Bandywood and our home in Green Hills. I really enjoy trying new restaurants in Nashville with my husband, seeing shows at the Ryman and traveling with my family.

What can shoppers expect when they visit your store?

You’ll find a beautiful and meaningful selection of fine

What started in a garage has blossomed into a booming jewelry business with a studio and storefront. A Vanderbilt grad, Ann loves the support and community of fellow female business owners in the Nashville area and hopes to continue to champion other women-owned businesses around town.

jewelry that you can customize to represent your story.

Our bangles are what we are known for, but we also offer bracelets, necklaces, earrings and rings in 14-karat gold with natural diamonds and gemstones. I also hope you’ll find that shopping at Yearly Co. feels like visiting with friends in a comfortable and welcoming environment, where you can browse, build a wishlist and try on any of our pieces.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? My favorite might be our festive Christmas Eve dinner at my parents’ house. We all dress up, pop Champagne and eat fresh cracked crab, and the kids run around asking us when they can start opening their presents. It’s so much

fun to see my daughters experience the same memories that I had of the holidays in the house I grew up in.

What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one? My general rule for giving a great gift is to stick with elevated, simple items and to take some time to consider the person, their style and their tastes.

Something as simple as a blanket in a luxe fabric or a candle in a dreamy scent can really feel special. And owning a jewelry business helps — I have given my favorite earrings to probably every woman in my life and have not had any complaints so far!

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MERCI DUPRE CLOTHIERS hello@mercidupreclothier.com mercidupreclothiers.com

Dr. Christina Rahm Merci Dupre Clothiers

What makes this a great gift? This clothing line features designers from Italy, India and the Middle East, as well as my Merci Dupre Collection. I have worked for years creating healthy, environmentally friendly products. I am now using that knowledge — combined with patented, scientific disciplines — to create protective clothing. Merci Dupre Clothiers and DRC Ventures’ overall mission is to solve health issues caused by the environment. This new, innovative and environmentally friendly clothing line is just one more step toward that mission, all without compromising style.

Tell us more about you. I’ve lived in Nashville for more than 20 years, but I travel the world presenting, lectur-

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Over the years, Dr. Christina Rahm founded a collection of Nashville businesses through DRC Ventures — the most recent being Merci Dupre Clothiers.

The venture, which is named after her children, has been highlighted at fashion weeks in the Hamptons, New York, Milan and most recently, Los Angeles.

ing and educating both the private and public sectors about the bold new worlds of nutraceuticals, wellness strategies and environmental solutions. I am also the author of Cure The Causes, Be Your Own Inspiration and Cure The Causes Cookbook. My mission is to get to the root cause of health problems. Having worked in more than 88 countries, I’m proudest of my expansive philanthropic initiatives and being the mother of four children.

Share more about DRC Ventures. Our team's mission is protecting the environment, supporting communities and empowering entrepreneurs, such as the designers we have collaborated with on this launch. We invite all our partners and customers to join us on the journey.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? I would say, as many people would, that spending quality time with my parents, siblings, husband and four children is my favorite holiday tradition. We travel so much throughout the year that I make it a point to be in Nashville with family during the holidays.

What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one? Consider their interests and hobbies, while also thinking about their personal style and preferences. And always pay attention to comments about what they like or need.

SHOP ALICE NASHVILLE 6949 Charlotte Pike Suite201 Nashville, TN 615-390-3331 Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Betsy Taylor Shop Alice Nashville

Tell us about you. I'm a native Nashvillian, and my daughter, Edie, works with me at the shop. My hobby has always been fashion — I just love everything about clothes and have since my days at Harpeth Hall. To this day, I have stacks of my old Seventeen magazines and wouldn't part with them for anything!

What's your favorite thing about being a business owner in Nashville? I love meeting all the newcomers to our great city. Being a native Nashvillian, I know a lot of other natives. It's so fun meeting all the new people, learning what attracted them to Middle Tennessee and hearing their impressions of Nashville.

Shop Alice is a trendy women’s clothing and accessories boutique, tucked off Charlotte Pike in West Nashville. More than 20 years ago, owner Betsy Taylor co-owned beloved gift shop Harry B’s in Nashville, which paved the way for Shop Alice to open just over two years ago.

What can shoppers expect when they visit your store?

We carry small, unique and independent clothing lines from all over the world, which we have spent months — sometimes years — searching out. I love introducing customers to the beautiful fabrics and designs, as well as the amazing designers behind them from Paris, Japan, India, Ireland, Sweden and more. When you buy something at Alice, you won't see it all over town.

What's your favorite holiday tradition? For much of my life, it was going to my grandmother's house on Chickering Road every Christmas Eve with my very large extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins. A tradi-

tion I continue is placing my daughter Edie's stocking at the end of her bed once Santa has filled it. It was a tradition in my family growing up. She just got married this year, so we'll have to see if the tradition continues.

What advice can you share for picking the perfect gift for a loved one? I suggest really listening and paying attention to the special people in your life. When are they happiest? When are they most relaxed? What gift can you give that enhances them at those times when they're at their very best?

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