The responses include a trip through Canada, earrings and several books.
A favorite gift can be as practical as a new laptop or as profound as an introduction to one’s heritage.
So, The Times asked six men and women with creative backgrounds from around the world to describe in emails the presents that have delighted them the most. (Their replies were edited for length and clarity.)
Olivier Gabet
An art historian, Mr. Gabet has been director of the Department of Objets d’Art at the Louvre since September 2022; he previously was director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Best gift ever On his departure from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, staff members, friends and board members presented him with a textile sculpture by the French artist Simone Pheulpin, who was the subject of an exhibition there in late 2021. “This sculpture is, for me, a talisman,” Mr. Gabet wrote, “both a remembrance of nine years of my professional and personal life, a wonderful and powerful art work, but also the objet d’art which will accompany me for the forthcoming years of my life.”
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