The Perfect Gift That You Don't Choose Yourself

Sometimes gift giving is hard. What do you give to a relative you don’t even know that well, or a co-worker, or in some cases even your close family. The perfect solution could very well be a gift card. The only downside is that they are usually only valid for a year. This is not, however, the case at mobilità, we will let you use it for at least 3 years (and if you ask kindly we can prolong it even further).

So take the opportunity to get the easiest but yet the most loving gift we can think of. A gift card at mobilita.se/shop. The shop grows almost every week with new prints, totes, throw pillows and t-shirts and last, but not least, our brand new cocktail book A Year of Cocktails. So wait no longer, Christmas is right around the corner.

Santa Sees You!

Finally it’s December and at least in Stockholm we’ve got snow. Feeling the Holiday spirit we just released some new Christmasy coasters on Red Bubble. Something to think about to maximize the amount of presents from the man with the bag and to minimize the risk of getting a lump of coal instead. You can find them at our Made Close page on Red Bubble along with a whole range of Holiday themed products.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/MadeClose/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent

Have a lovely weekend.

Santa's Favorite Drink

This festive cocktail is a riff on the pre-prohibition cocktail Stinger and it’s a perfect yuletide drink to enjoy in front of the fireplace when the gifts are wrapped and the Holiday calm sets in. Or by all means while sitting in the shade of a palm tree watching the ocean in the tropics.

The original first appeared in print in the 1914 book ”Drinks” by Jacques Straub. According to David Wondrich’s cocktail book ”Imbibe” an Ohio newspaper credited Reginald Vanderbilt with the cocktail in 1923 writing that he had served his guests Stingers since the beginning of the 1900s. It is said that Vanderbilt spent three hours a day mixing them for his guests during cocktail hour at his Fifth Avenue mansion. The cocktail has since the days of the Vanderbilts been associated with the upper class and was featured in many movies like ”High Society” from 1956 with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Cary Grant orders one in the 1957 ”Kiss Them for Me” and James Bond drinks a Stinger in the 1956 ”Diamonds Are Forever”.

The glass called “Sukat Makkaralla”, Finnish for “Socks rolled down” was designed in 2010 for Marimekko by the Finnish designer Anu Penttinen.