Festive finery: Five elegant items that will save your Christmas from being boring

It may be called the silly season, but there’s no reason for your Christmas decor to be the punchline of the joke.

Make elegant design part of your annual tradition with these stylish decorations, gifts and accessories.

Wooden Christmas tree

’Tis the season for giving, and by replacing your pine tree with one of these sculptures, your gift for mother nature is sorted.

Available in several sizes and easily adjustable, these elegant timber structures are truly timeless.

Mud Australia festive ornaments

Tinsel is all very well, but if you want to put the chic in Christmas, you’ll abandon those plastic baubles.

Shelley Simpson has a replacement in mind: these endearing, hand-crafted ceramics in pear, nut and egg shapes.

Come as you are bar cart

Courtesy of Austrian-based studio Dante Goods and Bads, this cart will make those pre-lunch drinks on the terrace all the more sweet.

Stripped to the bare essentials, the product is defined by clean lines and monochromatic tones.

Oliver Thom terazzo accessories

The daunting task of making each present unique just got easier with Oliver Thom’s latest offerings.

Take those chocolates out of the gift bag, and add these terrazzo candle holders, mirrors, soap-holders or drinks trays instead.

Robert Gordon dinnerware

Whether it’s a lunch or a dinner, the penultimate Christmas family meal is often planned weeks in advance, and deserves to be served on equally well-considered ceramics.

We love Robert Gordon’s Australian-made dinnerware, a classic collection that will suit all occasions and guests.