Pass the salt, please

Tech up your dining table with this salt and pepper pot set. Priced €15, it is one of a number of gorgeous gifts at Designist at 68, South Great George’s Street in Dublin 2.

There's also a cardboard cut-out Karakuri grumpy goat, a trick mechanism whose movements are designed just to amuse. At €7.50 it is ideal for the grouch in your life. The literary and visually pleasing laser-cut acrylic Irish head bookends are real talking points. They cost €30 each. Choose from literary heavyweights Yeats, Beckett or Joyce. Buy online at Designist.ieor tel: 01-475 8534.