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JUN 2026 | FATHER'S DAY

He’s the steady one, the one who keeps things moving

So we chose things that allow him to slow down.

Not just the early starts and the long way home. The way he holds the centre of things — the one everyone leans on without quite saying so. This is for him. Not a gesture. A gift chosen with the same care he has always quietly given everyone else.

This year, we chose things that allow him to slow down.

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Start with something for the open afternoon.

The Panama hat from Guanabana is designed in Spain and made in Colombia, handwoven by artisans whose craft runs back generations. The straw is worked slowly, by hand, then finished with a woven ribbon — a small, deliberate band of colour that no two hats wear quite the same way. There is something honest in that imperfection: proof of a maker, not a machine. It asks for nothing but good light and time to spare, and it carries the ease of a man who has stopped rushing — the kind of brim that tilts toward the sun and settles in for a while. It travels well, creases forgivingly, and looks better for being lived in. Worn once, it remembers the shape of him. Worn often, it becomes part of how he steps out the door.

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Then the hour turns, and the day folds toward evening.

The jerry can cabinet, reimagined in clean white, holds the makings of a quiet ritual. What was built for the road now opens to a row of bottles and a slow pour — a private bar with a sense of humour, certain of itself. The kind of thing he didn't know to ask for, and won't want to close.

The nomadic cups speak the same language.

Each one carries a face, a name, a small character of its own — hand-finished, never quite identical, the way the good things rarely are. They sit easily in the hand and ask to be used, not saved. The kind of cup that makes an ordinary evening feel deliberately his.

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And then, the smallest thing, and somehow the loudest.

A bulb that glows the word Dad in soft blue — plain in daylight, quietly certain once it's lit. Less an object than a sentence said out loud. The kind of thing you'd switch on and watch his face change.

Last, something for the slow art of a good drink.

The Mezcal and Tequila Cocktails book, and its gentler companion in Mocktails, turn mixing into a ritual rather than a routine. A page he reads slowly. A drink made for no reason but the pleasure of making it. The kind of evening that asks nothing of him but to enjoy it.

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At Tiger & Lotus, in our corner of Joo Chiat, a gift should never be chosen quickly. It should be found — the way the right thing always is — through genuine looking. Every piece in this Father's Day edit is made to be lived with, by men who give far more than they ask for.

Give him a reason to slow down. Something that already knows the shape of his days, and simply asks him to take one for himself.