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How BUNNY WILLIAMS Gifts
New York magazine
|November 17–30, 2025
'With a Name Like Bunny, You Can Imagine the Gifts I Receive'
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What is your gift-giving philosophy? I don't try to make a design statement with gifts. I like to give gifts that are useful. Don't try to interpret someone else's style or taste unless you know them intimately—chances are you might not get it right. Think beautiful soap, linen napkins, candles, or small bud vases.
What gift have you received that you're most surprised you still use regularly? A glass leech bowl my dear friend the late Suzanne Rheinstein and her daughter, Kate Rheinstein Brodsky, gave me from her shop, KRB. I'm constantly doing my flowers at home, and it's the perfect scale and shape for a large arrangement. I have a cutting garden where I'm always growing my favorites: peonies, dahlias, and zinnias like Queen Lime Orange and Red. I also love taller flowers like foxgloves, delphiniums, lilies, and sunflowers.
You have to give the same present to everyone for the rest of your life: What is it? Good linen napkins. Everyone needs them, and they never go out of style.
What was the most heartfelt, smart, so-you present you've ever received? A pair of paintings of our dogs by artist Henry Koehler that my husband, John, and I were given by Jonathan Gargiulo, John's nephew, and his husband, Stiles Colwill. They're painted in the interiors of our apartment. They are two of my favorite things.
This story is from the November 17–30, 2025 edition of New York magazine.
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