Holiday Shopping

Neiman Marcus Features Rainier Yurts

The luxury department store teams up with a hundred-year-old Seattle company for its holiday catalog.

By Laura Cassidy November 1, 2011

It’s been two years since Neiman Marcus rolled into town, so by now you’re probably familiar with their yearly holiday catalog—complete with a handful of totally over-the-top gift ideas. We’re not talking about the high-ticket Chanel watches and cut-crystal glassware that appears in other mega-retailers catalogs, we’re talking about $250,000 custom-made speedboats. And yurts.

This year’s Christmas Book (if the Houston-based brand hasn’t yet folded under the PC "holiday" pressure, they probably never will) allows customers to order a $75,000, 12-foot-5-inch tall, 18-foot diameter tent from Seattle’s Rainier Yurts.

The South-End structure builders have been doing business since the Alaskan Gold Rush days, so they’re probably not strangers to big purses, but I’m not sure they’ve ever collaborated with luxury pillow maker Rebecca Vizard or New Orleans’s chandelier artisan, Julie Neill.

Yes, your yurt comes with antique embroidery, crystal-accented lighting, linen wall coverings, and a color scheme meant to evoke "the bubbles of a warm, soothing bath." Installation is included, and for every backyard retreat (they call them "Dream Follys" …) that’s sold, NM will donate $5,000 to breast cancer research.

See page 63, or just call 1-800-9NM-GIFT and order one.

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