Nordstrom wants to sell you a designer stone wrapped in leather

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If you're looking for a unique gift this year, Nordstrom would like to sell you

[ a designer rock ]

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Reviews of the stones appear to be mixed so far, as internet jokesters find the product page.  One reviewer called it a little pricey, but another claims it better than buying food for her family.  Another comment complained about the lack of instructions and a one-star review pointed out that the "hand-made" stone shows marks from machinery.

Peter Maxwell runs the Los Angeles-based company called Made Solid.  They make the $85 leather-wrapped stones found on the Nordstrom website.

[ Maxwell says they deliberately don't want to tell buyers what to do with the stones because he sees them as works of art ]

.  Each stone is polished and then fit into custom tanned leather cases.

If $85 seems like too much for a leather-sheathed stone, Nordstrom has a smaller version priced at

[ a more reasonable $65 ]

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