Most furniture begins with a brief. A sketch. A mood board pulled from somewhere between a Scandinavian design blog and a decades-old auction catalog. French industrial designer Pierre Villez did something different. He started at the construction site.

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Most gift guides for him are boring. A leather wallet, a whiskey set, a watch he already owns in a different color. But if the person you’re buying for genuinely cares about the objects around him, about what something communicates before he even uses it, a pen is an underrated move. Not just any pen. The five below are the kind of pieces that make everything else on the gift table look like an afterthought.

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