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It takes a special act of will to show up at a yacht-warming party empty-handed. Especially when you’re a guest on some fabulous megayacht looking forward to being wined and dined for a week at sea. What, then, do you get for the yacht that has everything? Louis Postel finds some extraordinary gifts that will surely earn exclamations of: “Oh, you shouldn’t have!”

Curl up Known for his Versace perfume bottles and home accessories for Helmut Lang, designer Tino Valentinitsch teamed with Wiener Silber to create a modern “Curl Bowl” inspired by the long-ringlet hairstyles of the Viennese ladies of the Biedermeier era. The domed base of his “Curls Bowl” functions like a convex mirror, creating a play of reflections, while a special Wiener Silber alloy of 94 percent silver makes “the ringlets” especially warm and inviting to the touch (in the way daughters might reach up to their mother’s locks). €12,360. www.wienersilbermanufactur.com

Chime in The deep chime of the Chelsea Ship’s Bell clock has a clarity and confidenceinspiring tone like no other time machine.

Dial it back to the 1940s. There you see its face appear like a harvest moon on the mantle between President Truman and General Eisenhower. Wind forward to 1952 and there it is again with Winston Churchill on the U.S.S. Williamsburg. Wind forward past Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford with various Chelsea clocks to 1978, and there you see a confident, barechested Aristotle Onassis posing with his very own on the cover of Frank Brady’s biography, An Extravagant Life.

8½-inch brass Ship’s Bell clock, $3,500.

8½-inch brass Ship’s Bell barometer, $2,600. www.chelseaclock.com

Bowl them over Give them a “centerpiece” by Giovanni “Giò” Ponti, the late renowned architect and industrial designer who founded Domus magazine in 1928. Composed of two single-footed bowls for fruit or flowers, the halves can be joined together to express Ponti’s notions of “the finished shape” and its “essentiality.” €1449, www.sambonet.it

Give them a good read in bed. Short of that, give them enough light by which to read it. The multiple-award-winning Lady 7 lamp by Kenneth and Edmund Ng for Koncept Lighting has a name and wispy silhouette that suggests her big sister could be a sleek megayacht — named Lady 77, perhaps. Using LEDs, Lady 7 stays pretty cool, making those ugly and ubiquitous heat sink fins finally obsolete. $269. www.koncept.com/Lady7

Pull up a chair Jessica, Endeavour, Shamrock, Velsheda, Margaux Rose, Creole, Borkumriff, Rora V, Aurora, Anekena, Mari-Cha III, Fair Lady, Northern Light, Detroit Eagle, Reverie, Tiara, Meteor and Archimedes…need we go on? All are yachts with interiors by ShowBoats International’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner John Munford, who began his career as a student at The London College of Furniture in the early 1960s. Munford’s folding director’s chairs for Summit demonstrates on a micro level what he does so deftly on a macro — reconciling the sleek with the comfortable. $1,550 each. www.summitfurniture.com

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