Mr Blacksmith Designware Store

Mr Blacksmith is cool, super cool. It is a design-​ware store that mixes practical designer home-​ware items, with retro-​chic throwbacks, and beautifully craft but perhaps useless gifts. It’s the sort of place you would wander into on a hot Saturday afternoon to get out of the heat, but then end up in there for an hour playing with the cool trinkets and funky gadgets.
You’d come here to buy one or two quirky things for your house, especially if you have had enough of the local flavour «OMG, not another set of chopsticks in a little silk purse», or gifts for the person who has everything. The products aren’t particularly Hong Kong or local (unlike GOD), but still interesting anyway. The stores are piled high and somewhat crammed with stuff, so you will need a bit of patience to find that ideal gift.
To give you an example of the sort of thing you can buy, why not try a bath whistle. This is a small plastic bird you half fill with water and then blow into. The water makes a chirping bird noise which is pleasant enough in the bath, but utterly useless!
If the bird whistle doesn’t interest you, how about a chair made out of radiators, or a massive wine cork stool?
It’s not cheap, I suppose designer gear isn’t really supposed to be, but it is pretty. They do offer some wedding list services, but this seems to be in it’s infancy as I found it hard to organise this with their head office.
There are a couple of locations, one in Central and one in Wan Chai.