The Best Gift Stores in Sydney: A Curated Guide to Thoughtful, Design-Led Gifting
- Smashd Sydney
- 2 days ago
- 4 min read
Sydney has no shortage of beautiful stores, but these are the ones that make holiday gifting genuinely easy, from slow-made Japanese homewares to ceramics, books, fragrances, florals, wine, and design objects you won’t find everywhere else. This edit brings together the best gift stores in Sydney for the season.
Best Gift Stores In Sydney
Hands
Newtown | Paddington
A bright, design-driven gift store celebrating colour, play, and independent creativity. Sabre cutlery, cheerful homewares, and small objects from local makers and international brands fill the shelves, each piece chosen to bring a little joy into the everyday.
T Totaler
Sydney CBD
An Australian tea studio elevating everyday brewing through native botanicals and small-batch craft. Their blends are housed in signature amber apothecary bottles, with flavours inspired by Australia’s diverse food culture.
Simple Beautiful Things
Chippendale
A calm, considered store offering homewares, stationery, and journals chosen for their simplicity and quiet charm. Each piece leans toward the useful and the meaningful, objects that invite slower rituals, thoughtful gifting, and a home shaped with intention.
Mud Australia
Across Sydney
Handmade in Sydney, Mud Australia’s porcelain pieces balance quiet minimalism with everyday function.
The palette spans soft neutrals to saturated colour, with each plate, bowl, and serving piece crafted to feel both sculptural and lived-in, a beautiful stop for gifts that sit between design object and daily essential.
Provider Store
Surry Hills
Known for its slow-made Japanese homewares, this Surry Hills store brings together objects crafted with care and quiet precision. Ceramics, textiles, and everyday tools are selected for their longevity, with many pieces made in the studio upstairs or sourced from artisans across Australia and Japan.
Bondi Wash
Bondi + Paddington
A natural home and body care brand built around Australian botanicals and clean, plant-based formulations. Their stores carry fragrances drawn from the bush, crisp, aromatic, and unmistakably local, alongside everyday essentials made with an eye for design and sustainability.
Near & Far
Darlinghurst
A design-led store dedicated to souvenirs, homewares, and stationery that reflect the character of Sydney. Tucked inside the London Chambers building, it offers considered objects, curated stationery and small mementos, pieces that capture the city’s subtler corners and everyday stories.
HAY Shop
Surry Hills
The Danish brand’s Sydney outpost brings furniture, kitchenware, and stationery together in an open-plan space shaped by clean lines and thoughtful colour.
The HAY aesthetic is joyful and uncomplicated; a mix of colourful Scandi homewares, bags, candles, and contemporary design pieces that brighten any room.
Top 3 by Design
Crows Nest
A furniture and homewares store built around a simple idea, only three pieces of each design are shown at once. The result is a focused, gallery-like space featuring contemporary furniture, lighting, and décor from both Australian and international designers. Quietly refined, with an edit that favours form, craft, and clean lines.
Aesop
Across Sydney
esop offers a polished edit of body care, fragrances, and home scents that translate effortlessly into luxury gifts.
Rich hand balms, aromatic body cleansers, and distinctive perfumes sit alongside room sprays and oil burners, all presented with the brand’s understated, architectural approach to design.
Sorry Thanks I Love You
Sydney CBD | Paddington
A concept store that brings fashion, design, art, and good coffee together under one roof. The shelves mix cult labels with small-batch makers, offering objects, accessories, fragrance, and handmade pieces ideal for thoughtful, design-led gifting.
Kinokuniya
Sydney CBD
A vast, design-conscious bookstore with one of the most extensive selections in the city. Over 300,000 titles span English, Japanese, and Chinese books, alongside a standout range of manga, graphic novels, art and design volumes, cookbooks, and travel guides.
Bright, spacious, and meticulously organised, an essential stop for gifting across every genre and interest.
EdoMatcha
Newtown
A speciality matcha store dedicated to organic Japanese tea and handcrafted teaware. The shelves carry small-batch matcha, curated blends, and pieces made by master artisans in Japan, whisks, bowls, scoops, and ceramics that honour traditional craft.
Bess Paddington
Paddington
A neighbourhood florist known for its sculptural arrangements made from Australian native wildflowers, many grown by the founder’s own family on the Central Coast.
The studio focuses on seasonal, character-rich blooms and thoughtful gifting, with bouquets that feel warm, expressive, and distinctly local.
Btwnlns
Newtown
A boutique bookshop and design space showcasing limited-edition titles and contemporary German furniture. Sculptural chairs, graphic lines, and a minimalist layout give the store a gallery-like feel, an intentional setting for discovering design-led books and objects.
Winona Wines
Manly
A natural-leaning bottle shop on the northern beaches with a focus on small producers and considered winemaking.
The shelves span minimal-intervention wines from Australia and abroad, alongside craft beers, artisan spirits, gourmet snacks, and beautifully made objects, from brass lighters to ceramics.
P&V Wine & Liquor Merchants
Newtown | Paddington
An independent bottle shop with a fun, eclectic edit of natural wines, local beers, small-batch spirits, and house-made cocktails.
Laid-back, community-minded, and always full of interesting finds, a great stop for gifting or grabbing something special for the weekend.
Penny’s Cheese Shop
Potts Point
A neighbourhood favourite for farmhouse cheeses from Australia and abroad. Penny and her team cut each piece to order, with shelves stocked with honey, crackers, bread, and all the extras for easy gifting.
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