French country decor at harvest time is not pink — it is burnt orange and rust, the colors of the Provence landscape in September when the sunflowers have finished and the soil is visible again. The Burnt Orange Poppy is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the France Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a burnt orange glaze that is deep, warm, and specific in the way that harvest colors are specific.

The warm depth of a collection that appeared in French Vogue

Chive continues to interpret the French Vogue feature as an endorsement. The France Collection is built on a range of warm and soft tones, and burnt orange is the deepest and most committed of them — the color that anchors the warm end of the palette the way a Provence landscape anchors a painting of the south of France. The poppy form — nodding, tissue-thin petals translated into ceramic permanence — is one of the more immediately recognisable forms in the collection and one of the more botanically specific. The poppy in burnt orange is not the red of remembrance or the orange of a traffic cone. It is the orange of something grown in warm soil.

The Chicago Botanic Garden carries the France Collection. The Atlanta Botanical Garden stocks it. The Norfolk 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 from the Midwest to the Southeast have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.

A gift for an August birthday — the poppy is the August birth flower

The poppy is the birth flower for August. The Burnt Orange Poppy ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Chicago Botanic Garden carries it. The August person receives a birth flower gift from a collection French Vogue featured in their home section.