Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea
Unique wall art is a category that often mistakes novelty for distinctiveness — the unusual thing is not automatically the specific thing. The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the English Garden Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a chartreuse glaze, shaped as a protea form that is genuinely unusual in the ceramic flower category and which reads as immediately specific rather than merely different.
Botanical wall art that comes from the collection people return to Chelsea to find
The Sugarbush protea form — dense central cone, radiating outer petals, the architectural geometry of something that evolved for a very specific purpose and achieved it — is one of the more complex shapes in the English Garden Collection. Chartreuse amplifies that complexity: the yellow-green glaze sits on each individual petal differently depending on the angle to the kiln, which means the piece is slightly different from close range than from across the room. There are Chelsea regulars who come specifically because they know about the discontinued pieces — the hundred-odd items Chive brings from the previous year's archive. The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is the kind of piece they arrive hoping to find still in production. It is still in production.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico carries the English Garden Collection. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford stocks it. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Museums associated with artists who had specific opinions about botanical forms have made the same purchasing decision about this collection. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999. SFMOMA stocks it.
The gift for the person who has everything and has said this multiple times
The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is the gift for the person who has said they have everything because it is something they have not encountered before — a ceramic protea in chartreuse from a studio stocked in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. It ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw. The person who has everything does not yet have this, which is a statement that will be true until they do.
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Unique wall art is a category that often mistakes novelty for distinctiveness — the unusual thing is not automatically the specific thing. The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the English Garden Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a chartreuse glaze, shaped as a protea form that is genuinely unusual in the ceramic flower category and which reads as immediately specific rather than merely different.
Botanical wall art that comes from the collection people return to Chelsea to find
The Sugarbush protea form — dense central cone, radiating outer petals, the architectural geometry of something that evolved for a very specific purpose and achieved it — is one of the more complex shapes in the English Garden Collection. Chartreuse amplifies that complexity: the yellow-green glaze sits on each individual petal differently depending on the angle to the kiln, which means the piece is slightly different from close range than from across the room. There are Chelsea regulars who come specifically because they know about the discontinued pieces — the hundred-odd items Chive brings from the previous year's archive. The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is the kind of piece they arrive hoping to find still in production. It is still in production.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico carries the English Garden Collection. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford stocks it. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Museums associated with artists who had specific opinions about botanical forms have made the same purchasing decision about this collection. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999. SFMOMA stocks it.
The gift for the person who has everything and has said this multiple times
The Chartreuse Sugarbush Protea is the gift for the person who has said they have everything because it is something they have not encountered before — a ceramic protea in chartreuse from a studio stocked in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. It ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw. The person who has everything does not yet have this, which is a statement that will be true until they do.
