Japandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes warm earthy tones because the Japanese aesthetic tradition is not exclusively cool — the Japanese palette includes the warm earthen tones of dried flowers, autumn foliage, and the specific warm brown-pink of Japanese wabi-sabi ceramics. Peach mocha is one of those warm earthy tones: the color between warm peach and warm mocha, the specific autumn-adjacent warm that reads as earthy and organic and specifically Japanese in its restraint. The Peach Mocha Cornflower is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a peach mocha glaze, shaped in the cornflower form — the small, multi-petaled, tubular-floret bloom that is one of the most characteristically delicate forms in the botanical calendar.

The warm earthy Japanese autumn on a characteristically delicate form

Chive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the full range of the Japanese aesthetic palette — the cool blues and greens that dominate, and the warm earthy tones that ground them. Peach mocha is the Japan Collection's warm autumn anchor: the color of dried flowers in a Japanese ikebana arrangement, of the warm brown-peach that appears in the autumn foliage palette that Japanese aesthetic tradition regards with specific reverence. The cornflower form holds the peach mocha glaze in its small, multi-floret structure with a delicacy that reads as compatible with the Japanese appreciation of small, carefully observed forms. The Getty Museum carries the Japan Collection.

The Getty Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario stocks it. The Ansel Adams Gallery carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Art institutions from Los Angeles to Toronto to California 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 the Japandi room that needs the Japan Collection's warm autumn anchor

The Peach Mocha Cornflower ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Getty Museum carries it. The Japandi room with neutral walls receives the Japan Collection's warmest autumnal color in the most delicate botanical form.