Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster
Japandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes seasonal blue — the color named not for a standard color position but for the atmospheric quality it references: the specific blue of the Japanese autumn sky, the blue that appears in Japanese landscape paintings when the mountain air clears and the sky reads as more grey-blue than the summer blue, the blue of seasonal transition. The Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a seasonal blue glaze, shaped in the Alpine aster form — the small, daisy-like bloom that covers mountain slopes in late summer and autumn across Japan and the European Alps.
The atmospheric blue of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness
Chive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with explicit reference to the Japanese aesthetic tradition — and Japanese aesthetics have a specific relationship to seasonal color that Western design traditions do not share to the same degree. In Japan, seasonal colors have names and cultural weight: the blue of the autumn sky (秋空) is a specific registered color. Seasonal blue in the Japan Collection is Chive's interpretation of that atmospheric quality — more grey in it than summer blue, more specific than generic sky blue, the blue that reads as the mountain air of a Japanese autumn. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The San Antonio Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens in the Southeast and South have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone who responds to the atmospheric quality of the Japan Collection's seasonal palette
The Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries it. The person who responds to atmospheric color receives a ceramic alpine aster in the blue of a Japanese autumn sky from a collection a botanical institution chose to carry.
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Japandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes seasonal blue — the color named not for a standard color position but for the atmospheric quality it references: the specific blue of the Japanese autumn sky, the blue that appears in Japanese landscape paintings when the mountain air clears and the sky reads as more grey-blue than the summer blue, the blue of seasonal transition. The Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a seasonal blue glaze, shaped in the Alpine aster form — the small, daisy-like bloom that covers mountain slopes in late summer and autumn across Japan and the European Alps.
The atmospheric blue of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness
Chive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with explicit reference to the Japanese aesthetic tradition — and Japanese aesthetics have a specific relationship to seasonal color that Western design traditions do not share to the same degree. In Japan, seasonal colors have names and cultural weight: the blue of the autumn sky (秋空) is a specific registered color. Seasonal blue in the Japan Collection is Chive's interpretation of that atmospheric quality — more grey in it than summer blue, more specific than generic sky blue, the blue that reads as the mountain air of a Japanese autumn. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The San Antonio Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens in the Southeast and South have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone who responds to the atmospheric quality of the Japan Collection's seasonal palette
The Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries it. The person who responds to atmospheric color receives a ceramic alpine aster in the blue of a Japanese autumn sky from a collection a botanical institution chose to carry.
