Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster
Japandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes the Frikartii aster because Aster × frikartii is one of the longest-blooming asters in cultivation — it flowers from midsummer through autumn, the exact seasonal arc that the Japan Collection's seasonal blue color references. The Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a seasonal blue glaze, shaped in the Frikartii aster form — a medium-sized daisy-like bloom with lavender-blue petals and a yellow center, the aster cultivar that has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit for its outstanding long-season performance.
The long-season botanical of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness
Chive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with explicit awareness of the Japanese aesthetic tradition's relationship to seasonality — the Japanese calendar of seasonal botanical color, the appreciation of flowers at the peak of their specific season, the wabi-sabi recognition that impermanence and seasonal transition are valuable rather than unfortunate. The Frikartii aster in seasonal blue is the Japan Collection's botanical reference to the aster's endurance across the late-season calendar. In ceramic, the Frikartii is the permanent version of the most enduring seasonal aster — the flower that lasts from midsummer to frost, in the atmospheric blue of the Japanese autumn sky. SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection.
SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts stocks it. The High Museum in Atlanta carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Art museums across the US have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone who appreciates the aster's cultural and botanical significance
The Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. SFMOMA carries it. The aster-appreciating person receives the Japan Collection's seasonal blue Frikartii from the same collection an art institution chose to carry.
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Japandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes the Frikartii aster because Aster × frikartii is one of the longest-blooming asters in cultivation — it flowers from midsummer through autumn, the exact seasonal arc that the Japan Collection's seasonal blue color references. The Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a seasonal blue glaze, shaped in the Frikartii aster form — a medium-sized daisy-like bloom with lavender-blue petals and a yellow center, the aster cultivar that has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit for its outstanding long-season performance.
The long-season botanical of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness
Chive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with explicit awareness of the Japanese aesthetic tradition's relationship to seasonality — the Japanese calendar of seasonal botanical color, the appreciation of flowers at the peak of their specific season, the wabi-sabi recognition that impermanence and seasonal transition are valuable rather than unfortunate. The Frikartii aster in seasonal blue is the Japan Collection's botanical reference to the aster's endurance across the late-season calendar. In ceramic, the Frikartii is the permanent version of the most enduring seasonal aster — the flower that lasts from midsummer to frost, in the atmospheric blue of the Japanese autumn sky. SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection.
SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts stocks it. The High Museum in Atlanta carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Art museums across the US have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
A gift for someone who appreciates the aster's cultural and botanical significance
The Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. SFMOMA carries it. The aster-appreciating person receives the Japan Collection's seasonal blue Frikartii from the same collection an art institution chose to carry.
