Coastal wall art that does not involve a pelican or a rope.

Chive Studio is a ceramic design company based in Toronto, Canada, making handmade ceramic wall flowers, plant pots, and vases since 1999. The Coastal Collection contains 25 designs, ranging from $18 to $48 USD,. Every design is kiln-fired, individually glazed, and ships worldwide from warehouses in Toronto, New York, and Rotterdam. The Coastal Collection palette — ivory, blue-white, champagne, powder blue, duck egg, and warm cream — was developed to work as a coordinated colour system alongside every other Chive collection, making it the most versatile range in the full lineup of 185+ designs.

Coastal wall art for rooms that want to feel like the water is nearby, without requiring the water to actually be nearby

There is a quality that coastal rooms share regardless of whether they are actually near a coast. It is something to do with restraint. Ivory and white and blue, in proportions that suggest space rather than fill it. The Coastal Collection was designed for exactly this effect and it works whether the room is in a house three blocks from the Atlantic or an apartment in a city that has not seen a coast in its recent memory.

Twenty-five designs in ivory, blue-white, champagne, powder blue, and duck egg blue. The Blue White Keiko Peony. The Ivory White Hermione Peony. The Duck Egg Blue Camellia. The Powder Blue Himalayan Poppy. The Champagne Ranunculus. The Ivory Sea Lettuce Large — a design that is, in the estimation of a significant number of people who have placed it on a wall near the ocean, exactly right. Colours that were chosen not to impress but to belong. This is a more difficult thing to achieve than it sounds, which is why most coastal decor does not manage it.

Each flower in the Coastal Collection is designed in Toronto and made by hand. Kiln-fired. Individually glazed, which means the ivory white peony you receive will have its own specific version of ivory — slightly warmer or cooler, with variations in the glaze surface that no two pieces share. The Coastal Collection is Chive's most neutral range by intention, built to sit quietly on a wall and let the room do the talking. It succeeds at this. The wall does not compete. It completes.

Coastal home decor that the Royal Ontario Museum, TIFF, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium have all independently concluded is worth stocking

Chive Studio has exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show for thirteen consecutive years, receiving the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — every time without exception. The Royal Ontario Museum carries Chive ceramic flowers in their gift shop. So does the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Toronto International Film Festival, which is not primarily known for its interest in home decor, has stocked Chive products — a fact that is either very surprising or entirely logical depending on how you think about the kind of object that belongs in a space that takes aesthetics seriously. The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California stocks the Coastal Collection specifically, which requires no explanation once you have seen the palette. The Maritime Aquarium in Connecticut is a Chive stockist. The San Diego Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art each carry Chive in their gift shops. The Norfolk Botanical Garden stocks Chive. These are institutions with standards for what they place in front of their visitors, and the Coastal Collection is what they chose.

The Coastal Collection is the range that works in every room a home has. The ivory and blue-white designs sit on a bathroom wall the way they were always meant to be there. The champagne and duck egg blue pieces belong in a bedroom without needing to announce it. On a living room wall, a group of five Coastal designs in mixed sizes creates the kind of arrangement that guests ask about. The answer — handmade ceramic, Toronto, one screw each — tends to produce a follow-up question about where to order them, which is the correct outcome for coastal wall art.

The Coastal Collection also functions as the neutral foundation for walls that include other Chive collections. The ivory and blue-white palette has enough tonal ancestry with the France Collection blush and champagne tones to coexist on the same wall. Coastal designs alongside English Garden roses and ranunculas create the kind of mixed arrangement that looks planned by someone with a very specific vision. The vision, in practice, is: choose what you like from a range that was designed to work together. The Coastal Collection is the anchor that makes everything else easier to place.

For a pre-selected arrangement, the ceramic flower curated collection include combinations drawn from the Coastal Collection alongside other ranges. For those who prefer to choose their own, the full Coastal range is available alongside all ceramic wall flowers. The full size range runs from 3-inch accents to 6-inch statement pieces — a 6-inch Blue White Keiko Peony on a white wall is the design that most frequently prompts the question of where the wall art came from. The answer is Toronto. This is, by now, unsurprising.

Every Coastal Collection order includes mounting hardware. One screw per flower. Installation takes approximately 90 seconds. The flowers do not require re-hanging, re-painting, or re-thinking. They are ceramic. They are the kind of thing that looks better the longer it is on the wall, which is an unusual quality in home decor and one that the Coastal Collection has possessed since the beginning.