A roundup of our favourite pieces from exemplary British brand Linley.

The various wares offered by wonderfully British brand Linley reflect its founder Viscount David Linley’s lifelong passion for woodwork. Launched in 1985 as a furniture studio in Dorking, then a shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea, the brand now offers a range of products and services, from one-off bespoke commissions to interior design and a wealth of beautiful giftable items, a choice selection of which, we are very pleased to announce, arrived on MR PORTER yesterday. What characterises every Linley product is a craft-like appreciation of quality and materials – even the smallest product, such as a box for holding playing cards, is as considered and sumptuously executed as one of the spectacular bespoke cabinets. Linley is also well known for its marquetry – a craft technique in which thin slices of wood veneer are cut and inlaid into a surface, forming seamless patterns containing vivid colours and textures. The combination of these elements results in a range of lovable, somewhat eccentric items that nothing else in the field can really compare to. Scroll down to discover a few of our favourites.

If you’re the lucky sort of person to whom people give presents all the time, you might find yourself with a surfeit of cufflinks, and nowhere really to put them. If this is the case, perhaps when it’s approaching your next birthday or relevant gifting event, you should make a few subtle hints that you could do with the above item. It’s a cufflink box, but by no means an ordinary one, handcrafted as it is in solid walnut with a satinwood marquetry inlay of bowler hats and bow ties. While they’re at it, your benefactors might as well pick you up a new pair of cufflinks too, no? We think the bright blue colour of this gold-plated pair from Kingsman will look particularly good in Linley’s superlative design.

Linley’s Henley Watch Tower deserves its rather grand architectural title, and not just for its beautiful materials (light sycamore, with a macassar ebony veneer). Indeed, as well as providing an attractive method of storage for your watch collection, it’s equipped with two SwissKubik USB-programmable watch-winding mechanisms, meaning that your favourite wristwear will emerge from its depths ticking along nicely. At the top, there is an additional space for storing items like cufflinks and spare watch straps. But of course, it will be a lonely tower without a Swiss fine watch to put in it – we recommend Zenith’s El Primero Chronomaster. Yes, it’s got a 50-hour power reserve, but then again some of us unfortunately don’t have a special occasion upon which to wear it every 50 hours…

There are a lot of sensible things you can do with your money. Put it into a pension. Take out a bond. Invest in property. But is there anything like the childlike glee of cracking open a money box, which has been filling up for some time, and pouring out a pile of cold hard cash? This is the thinking behind this charming item from Linley, which with its marquetry storm cloud design in figured anigre wood (note the nickel silver lining) plays upon that well-worn idiom “saving for a rainy day”. Use it to store up your loose change and, ultimately, treat yourself to something indulgent with the proceeds – a refined fragrance from gentlemanly brand Floris London will do the job nicely, we think.