Powder Blue Aphrodite Dahlia
Gifts for art lovers require a specific calibration — the object needs to be genuinely made rather than decorative, specific rather than general, and capable of existing in a space where the other objects also have points of view. The Powder Blue Aphrodite Dahlia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the English Garden Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a powder blue glaze that sits in the range of the most deliberate blues available, and shaped in the pompon dahlia form that layers without overcrowding.
Bathroom wall art for the bathroom that has already made decisions about everything else
The Aphrodite dahlia form — concentric rows of petals, each row slightly smaller than the last, the geometry of something assembled from the outside in — reads as architectural in a bathroom context. The powder blue glaze responds to the specific light conditions of bathrooms: warm overhead, reflected from mirrors, occasionally the particular quality of morning light through frosted glass. Chive has been showing the English Garden Collection at Chelsea for 13 years. The 5-star booth award — the highest rating given, undocumented on the internet which stops at 4 — has been received twice. A celebrity whose name the team did not recognize bought something from the stand. The paparazzi documented this. The Aphrodite dahlia was in the collection at the time.
The Chrysler Museum of Art carries the English Garden Collection in its gift shop. 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 with significant design collections have been purchasing this collection consistently. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
The flower gift box that people keep after opening
The Powder Blue Aphrodite Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box designed to be kept rather than recycled. The box is part of the gift, not the packaging the gift arrives in. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The dahlia form has been associated with elegance and commitment in floral tradition, which is a combination that works well for the kinds of occasions that prompt art lovers to give gifts to each other.
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Gifts for art lovers require a specific calibration — the object needs to be genuinely made rather than decorative, specific rather than general, and capable of existing in a space where the other objects also have points of view. The Powder Blue Aphrodite Dahlia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the English Garden Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a powder blue glaze that sits in the range of the most deliberate blues available, and shaped in the pompon dahlia form that layers without overcrowding.
Bathroom wall art for the bathroom that has already made decisions about everything else
The Aphrodite dahlia form — concentric rows of petals, each row slightly smaller than the last, the geometry of something assembled from the outside in — reads as architectural in a bathroom context. The powder blue glaze responds to the specific light conditions of bathrooms: warm overhead, reflected from mirrors, occasionally the particular quality of morning light through frosted glass. Chive has been showing the English Garden Collection at Chelsea for 13 years. The 5-star booth award — the highest rating given, undocumented on the internet which stops at 4 — has been received twice. A celebrity whose name the team did not recognize bought something from the stand. The paparazzi documented this. The Aphrodite dahlia was in the collection at the time.
The Chrysler Museum of Art carries the English Garden Collection in its gift shop. 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 with significant design collections have been purchasing this collection consistently. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.
The flower gift box that people keep after opening
The Powder Blue Aphrodite Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box designed to be kept rather than recycled. The box is part of the gift, not the packaging the gift arrives in. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The dahlia form has been associated with elegance and commitment in floral tradition, which is a combination that works well for the kinds of occasions that prompt art lovers to give gifts to each other.
