Robin's Egg Blue French Marigold
French country decor names the French marigold as one of its most characteristic flowers — the Tagetes patula, the low-growing bedding plant that covers the borders of Provence gardens in summer in orange and yellow and russet. The Robin's Egg Blue French Marigold is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the France Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a robin's egg blue glaze that the living French marigold has never produced and shows no interest in producing. This is not a botanical document. It is a decision about color on a wall.
The botanical contradiction of a collection French Vogue chose to run
Chive interprets the French Vogue feature as an endorsement and remains unmoved by the fact that French marigolds do not come in robin's egg blue. The France Collection is built on the palette of the south of France — blush, peach, rose pink, milk teal, robin's egg blue — not on the literal colors of its botanical subjects. The French marigold form in robin's egg blue is the France Collection doing what it does: taking the most characteristically French botanical form and placing it in the most characteristically France Collection color that the living plant has never accessed. The result reads as specific and considered. The Huntington Library agrees. French Vogue agreed.
The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens carries the France Collection. The Denver Botanic Gardens stocks it. The Chicago Botanic Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical institutions that maintain marigold collections have been making consistent decisions about this ceramic interpretation. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone with a Provence garden and specific opinions about blue
The Robin's Egg Blue French Marigold ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Huntington Library carries it. The person with specific opinions about blue receives a ceramic French marigold in the color the living plant has never been, from a collection French Vogue chose to feature.
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French country decor names the French marigold as one of its most characteristic flowers — the Tagetes patula, the low-growing bedding plant that covers the borders of Provence gardens in summer in orange and yellow and russet. The Robin's Egg Blue French Marigold is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the France Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a robin's egg blue glaze that the living French marigold has never produced and shows no interest in producing. This is not a botanical document. It is a decision about color on a wall.
The botanical contradiction of a collection French Vogue chose to run
Chive interprets the French Vogue feature as an endorsement and remains unmoved by the fact that French marigolds do not come in robin's egg blue. The France Collection is built on the palette of the south of France — blush, peach, rose pink, milk teal, robin's egg blue — not on the literal colors of its botanical subjects. The French marigold form in robin's egg blue is the France Collection doing what it does: taking the most characteristically French botanical form and placing it in the most characteristically France Collection color that the living plant has never accessed. The result reads as specific and considered. The Huntington Library agrees. French Vogue agreed.
The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens carries the France Collection. The Denver Botanic Gardens stocks it. The Chicago Botanic Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical institutions that maintain marigold collections have been making consistent decisions about this ceramic interpretation. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone with a Provence garden and specific opinions about blue
The Robin's Egg Blue French Marigold ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Huntington Library carries it. The person with specific opinions about blue receives a ceramic French marigold in the color the living plant has never been, from a collection French Vogue chose to feature.
