{"title":"Japan Ceramic Flower Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/chive.com\/collections\/ceramic-flowers-japan\" title=\"Japan Ceramic Flower Collection\"\u003eJapan\u003c\/a\u003e Collection ceramic flowers are the restrained range. Designs in chocolate mint, avocado, navy, and peridot — the palette of a room that has already made up its mind. The collection is built for Japandi and wabi-sabi interiors, for people with strong opinions about what goes on their walls, and for anyone who has been told their taste is too specific. One screw. Ninety seconds. No discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-medium-flower-grey","title":"Blue Grey Gerbera Daisy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the neutral register needs a color that reads as considered rather than defaulted to — not white, not beige, not the grey that could have been chosen by anyone. Blue grey in the Japan Collection is that specific neutral: the grey with enough blue to read as connected to the Japanese palette tradition, connected to the grey of old Japanese sumi ink washes and the blue-grey of Edo-period ceramics. The Blue Grey Gerbera Daisy is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a blue grey glaze, shaped in the gerbera daisy form — the open, flat-petaled, perfectly symmetrical bloom that botanical breeders have been refining for a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe specific neutral of a collection built on restraint\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the specific palette of the Japanese aesthetic — blues, greens, and the specific neutrals that appear in Japanese ceramics, sumi ink painting, and wabi-sabi influenced spaces. Blue grey is the Japan Collection's neutral: not the warm neutrals of the France or English Garden Collections, but the cool, ink-connected grey that reads as specifically Japanese rather than generically neutral. The gerbera daisy form — symmetrical, open, precisely petaled — holds the blue grey glaze with the cleanness that a less structured form could not provide. SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSFMOMA carries the Japan Collection. The Royal Ontario Museum stocks it. The Toronto International Film Festival 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 San Francisco to Toronto have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that needs its specific neutral botanical\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Blue Grey Gerbera Daisy ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. SFMOMA carries it. The Japandi room with warm neutral walls receives the cool specific neutral botanical that reads as the Japan Collection working correctly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339776106633,"sku":"JA14","price":44.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/5-gerberadaisy-bluegrey-1.webp?v=1780350834"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-medium-flower-chocolate-mint","title":"Chocolate Mint Echo Lisianthus","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection palette begins with colors that read as specific rather than generic — and chocolate mint is one of the most specific color names Chive has ever used. It is exactly what it sounds like: the deep brown-green that appears at the edge of a fresh mint leaf when the underside catches the light, the color of shadow on green, of green so deep it reads brown in certain conditions. The Chocolate Mint Echo Lisianthus is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a chocolate mint glaze, shaped in the Echo lisianthus cultivar — the ruffled, layered form that has made the lisianthus the florist's alternative to the rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe green-brown of a collection built on the Japanese aesthetic palette\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the specific palette of the Japanese aesthetic tradition — the deep greens, the earthy neutrals, the specific blues that appear in Japanese ceramics, lacquerware, and woodblock print pigments. Chocolate mint is the Japan Collection's green: not the bright green of the English Garden, not the warm avocado of other collection pieces, but the deep, shadowed green-brown that reads as connected to earth and shadow simultaneously. The Echo lisianthus form holds the chocolate mint glaze in its ruffled layers with variation that a smooth form could not provide. The Art Institute of Chicago carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art Institute of Chicago carries the Japan Collection. The Chrysler Museum of Art 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 Chicago to Norfolk to California have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person with a dark neutral interior who wants the Japan Collection's deepest green\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chocolate Mint Echo Lisianthus ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Art Institute of Chicago carries it. The dark neutral interior receives the Japan Collection's deepest green botanical from the same collection an art institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339776172169,"sku":"JA15","price":32.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA15-1_f75ffa02-93d5-4899-b026-ef4a537428ef.png?v=1765602607"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-medium-flower-pink","title":"Blush Pink Star Dahlia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art does not typically include blush pink — the Japandi palette tends toward cool neutrals, deep blues, and earthen greens. The Blush Pink Star Dahlia is the Japan Collection piece that challenges the assumption: a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a blush pink glaze, shaped in the Star dahlia cultivar — the pointed-petal dahlia form that creates a radial star pattern rather than the rounded pompom of the Ball dahlia or the flat open form of the Dinner Plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe warm exception in a collection built on cool specificity\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the Japanese aesthetic as the guiding palette — but the Japanese aesthetic is not exclusively cool. Japanese ceramics include warm pinks, the specific blush of cherry blossom (sakura), the warm pale pink that appears in Japanese porcelain and traditional textile dyeing. Blush pink in the Japan Collection is not the France Collection's blush — it is the Japan Collection's version of warm pink: the sakura-adjacent color that reads as connected to the Japanese aesthetic tradition rather than the French country one. The Star dahlia's pointed petals hold the blush pink in a form that reads as more precise and less romantic than the rounded peony or camellia forms it might otherwise be compared to. The Huntington Library carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens carries the Japan Collection. The Denver Botanic Gardens stocks it. The Brooklyn 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 with Japanese garden collections have been making consistent purchasing decisions about this piece. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that allows one warm pink exception\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Blush Pink Star Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Huntington Library carries it. The Japandi room that allows one warm exception receives the Japan Collection's sakura-adjacent pink in the most pointed dahlia form Chive makes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339776204937,"sku":"JA17","price":37.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA17-1.png?v=1776372564"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-medium-flower-blue","title":"Fancy Blue Fiesta Marigold","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art begins with the decision to remove everything unnecessary from the room and then introduce exactly one thing that earns its presence. The Fancy Blue Fiesta Marigold is that thing: a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a fancy blue glaze — a deep, specific blue that sits between navy and cobalt, the blue of Japanese woodblock ink and old Imari porcelain — shaped in the Fiesta marigold cultivar, which is the marigold form that botanical breeders have pushed toward the most fully double, most densely petaled version of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe deep blue of a collection built on restraint and specificity\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive launched the Japan Collection in 2020 with a specific premise: a palette drawn from the Japanese aesthetic tradition — the specific blues, greens, and neutrals of Japanese woodblock prints, Imari porcelain, and wabi-sabi-influenced ceramics. Fancy blue in the Japan Collection is not decorative blue. It is the blue that appears in Hokusai prints, in Japanese glazed ceramics, in the specific color that the Japanese aesthetic has been working with for centuries. The Fiesta marigold form — dense, fully double, packed with petals — holds that blue at maximum intensity. The Getty Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario stocks it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Getty Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario stocks it. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Institutions from Los Angeles to Cleveland to Toronto have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi interior that needs its one specific blue statement\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fancy Blue Fiesta Marigold ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Getty Museum carries it. The Japandi room with the right walls receives the blue that the Japan Collection was built to provide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339776270473,"sku":"JA21","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA21-1.png?v=1776372074"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-medium-fractal-lilac","title":"Violet Blue Fleur De Lis Mum","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art at its most architecturally specific is the piece that reads as both botanical and structural simultaneously — the form that holds a precise color in a way that rewards attention at close range and reads clearly from across the room. The Violet Blue Fleur de Lis Mum is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a violet blue glaze — the specific blue-purple that appears in Japanese iris paintings and Meiji-era textile dyes — shaped in the Fleur de Lis chrysanthemum cultivar, which is the mum form with quill-shaped petals that radiate outward in the stylized pattern that the Fleur de Lis name references.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe blue-purple of Japanese iris tradition in the most precise mum form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the specific palette of the Japanese aesthetic tradition. Violet blue references the Japanese iris — kakitsubata — one of the most celebrated flowers in Japanese aesthetic tradition, appearing in Ogata Korin's famous iris screens, in poetry by Ariwara no Narihira, and in the Meiji-era ceramic and textile traditions that used iris-purple as a statement color. The Fleur de Lis mum form holds this violet blue in quill-shaped petals that radiate outward in a pattern that reads as both botanical and heraldic — the chrysanthemum has been the imperial flower of Japan for a thousand years. Denver Botanic Gardens carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenver Botanic Gardens carries the Japan Collection. The Chicago Botanic Garden stocks it. The New York Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens that maintain chrysanthemum and iris collections have been making consistent purchasing decisions about this piece. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for someone who knows the chrysanthemum's significance in Japanese culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Violet Blue Fleur de Lis Mum ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. Denver Botanic Gardens carries it. The person who knows the chrysanthemum's role in Japanese imperial tradition receives the Japan Collection piece that carries the most cultural weight in violet blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339776303241,"sku":"JA22","price":42.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA22-1.png?v=1776372196"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-lilac-8","title":"Violet Blue Cornel Dahlia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in violet blue appears twice in the Japan Collection — in the Fleur de Lis Mum's quilled precision and in the Cornel Dahlia's more open form. The Violet Blue Cornel Dahlia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a violet blue glaze, shaped in the Cornel dahlia cultivar — a medium-sized, open-centered dahlia form with slightly curved petals that give it a more relaxed profile than the tightly structured Ball or formal Dinner Plate dahlias.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe same violet blue, a different botanical conversation\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive uses violet blue twice in the Japan Collection because the color earns two different readings in two different forms. On the Fleur de Lis Mum, violet blue reads in quilled precision — architectural, specific, connected to the chrysanthemum's imperial tradition. On the Cornel Dahlia, violet blue reads in an open, slightly relaxed form — the same iris color reference in a botanical form that reads as more approachable. Together on a wall they create the Japan Collection's most direct color study: the same violet blue across two forms that interpret it differently. The Chicago Botanic Garden carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chicago Botanic Garden carries the Japan Collection. The Atlanta Botanical Garden stocks it. The Norfolk Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens across the Midwest and Southeast have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person who wants violet blue in a more open, accessible form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Violet Blue Cornel Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Chicago Botanic Garden carries it. The person who wants violet blue from the Japan Collection in a less architecturally demanding form receives the Cornel dahlia from the same collection a botanical institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41349448368265,"sku":"JA02","price":62.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/5.5-dahlia-violetblue-1.webp?v=1780412113"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-blue-grey-8","title":"Blue Noir Pompon Dahlia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art at its most committed is the piece that uses the darkest available color in the most precisely structured form. The Blue Noir Pompon Dahlia is that piece: a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a blue noir glaze — the blue-grey-black that reads as the deepest, most shadowed position in the Japan Collection's cool palette, the color of Japanese sumi ink at full saturation — shaped in the Pompon dahlia cultivar, which is the most precisely spherical of all dahlia forms, the cultivar that botanical breeders have worked toward the most perfect globe shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe deepest blue of a collection built on restraint\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the Japanese aesthetic palette, and blue noir is the collection's deepest color — the blue that approaches black, the color of Japanese ink at maximum saturation, of the deep ocean that Japanese woodblock artists rendered in the darkest blues before running out of pigment. The Pompon form holds this darkest blue in its most precisely spherical structure: the blue noir Pompon reads as a sphere of Japanese ink suspended on a wall, the most restrained and most committed piece in a collection built on restraint and commitment. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Brooklyn Botanic Garden carries the Japan Collection. The New York Botanical Garden stocks it. Longwood Gardens carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens across the greater New York area and Pennsylvania have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that has committed completely to dark restraint\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Blue Noir Pompon Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden carries it. The room that has committed to the darkest end of the Japandi palette receives the Japan Collection's darkest piece from the same collection a botanical institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41349492408457,"sku":"JA04","price":37.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/4.5-pompondahlia-bluenoir-1.webp?v=1780350955"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-blue-brown-8","title":"Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes seasonal blue — the color named not for a standard color position but for the atmospheric quality it references: the specific blue of the Japanese autumn sky, the blue that appears in Japanese landscape paintings when the mountain air clears and the sky reads as more grey-blue than the summer blue, the blue of seasonal transition. The Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a seasonal blue glaze, shaped in the Alpine aster form — the small, daisy-like bloom that covers mountain slopes in late summer and autumn across Japan and the European Alps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe atmospheric blue of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with explicit reference to the Japanese aesthetic tradition — and Japanese aesthetics have a specific relationship to seasonal color that Western design traditions do not share to the same degree. In Japan, seasonal colors have names and cultural weight: the blue of the autumn sky (秋空) is a specific registered color. Seasonal blue in the Japan Collection is Chive's interpretation of that atmospheric quality — more grey in it than summer blue, more specific than generic sky blue, the blue that reads as the mountain air of a Japanese autumn. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Atlanta Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The San Antonio Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens in the Southeast and South have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for someone who responds to the atmospheric quality of the Japan Collection's seasonal palette\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Seasonal Blue Alpine Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries it. The person who responds to atmospheric color receives a ceramic alpine aster in the blue of a Japanese autumn sky from a collection a botanical institution chose to carry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41349501976713,"sku":"JA07","price":32.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/3.5-aplineaster-blue-1.webp?v=1780412820"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-mom-flower","title":"Peridot Sorbet Peony","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in green needs the specific green of the Japanese aesthetic tradition — not the bright botanical green of an English garden, not the grey-green of Scandinavian sage, but the warm yellow-green of young bamboo and fresh Japanese ceramics, the peridot that appears in Edo-period lacquerware and in the specific green that Japanese glaze-makers have been producing for centuries. The Peridot Sorbet Peony is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a peridot glaze, shaped in the Sorbet peony cultivar — a medium-sized, semi-double peony form with an open center that reads as less formal than the fully double Bowl or Big Ben forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe warm Japanese green on the most accessible peony form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the Japanese aesthetic palette as the guide, and peridot is the collection's warm green — the yellow-green that reads as connected to bamboo and jade and the specific green of Japanese ceramics rather than the botanical dark greens of other collections. The Sorbet peony form holds the peridot glaze in its semi-double open form with a lightness that the fully double Bowl or Big Ben peonies would not provide — peridot on the Sorbet reads as present and warm without the weight of a larger, denser form. The New York Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe New York Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection. The Chicago Botanic Garden stocks it. The Denver Botanic Gardens carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens from New York to Denver have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that needs its specific warm green botanical\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Peridot Sorbet Peony ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The New York Botanical Garden carries it. The Japandi room with neutral walls receives the Japan Collection's warmest green from the same collection a major botanical institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339786559625,"sku":"JA11","price":47.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/5.5-peony-peridot-1.webp?v=1780413612"},{"product_id":"navy-sorbet-peony-ceramic-flower","title":"Navy Sorbet Peony","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art at its most dramatic is the deep navy botanical — the color of Japanese indigo dye, of the deep ocean in a Hokusai wave, of the specific blue-black that appears in the most celebrated Japanese woodblock prints and in the highest-quality Japanese lacquerware. The Navy Sorbet Peony is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a navy glaze, shaped in the Sorbet peony cultivar — the semi-double open form that holds the navy at its deepest and most present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Japanese indigo of a collection built on the deep blue tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the Japanese aesthetic palette, and navy is the collection's deepest, most grounded blue — not the atmospheric seasonal blue, not the woodblock fancy blue, not the iris violet blue, but the deep Japanese indigo that textile makers and lacquerware artists have been using for centuries as the color that reads as both deeply natural and deeply deliberate. The Sorbet peony form holds navy at its most open — the semi-double form lets navy breathe in the visible center rather than packing it into a fully double sphere. SFMOMA carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSFMOMA carries the Japan Collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario stocks it. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 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 San Francisco to Toronto to Cleveland have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person who wants the Japan Collection's deepest indigo on the most open peony form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Navy Sorbet Peony ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. SFMOMA carries it. The person who wants the Japan Collection's deepest blue in the peony form most compatible with the Japanese appreciation of natural imperfection receives the Navy Sorbet from the same collection SFMOMA chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41463845519497,"sku":"JA12","price":47.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/5.5-peony-navysorbet-1_8d71abdc-7a30-4c43-aed4-7d1cdd1e0406.webp?v=1780328592"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-small-succulent-green","title":"Pea Green Ghost Succulent","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection includes succulents because succulents appear throughout the Japanese aesthetic tradition — in the carefully tended kokedama of Japanese moss gardens, in the container collections of Japanese wabi-sabi inspired spaces, in the specific small botanical forms that Japanese aesthetic sensibility has always found resonant. The Pea Green Ghost Succulent is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a pea green glaze — the specific cool green of fresh peas and new growth, lighter and more specifically vegetable than the earthy chocolate mint — shaped in the Ghost succulent form (Graptopetalum paraguayense), the succulent species known for its flat, star-shaped rosette of pale green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe cool botanical green of a collection built on Japanese natural forms\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive has been making ceramic succulents since the early days of the Classic Collection, and the Japan Collection's succulent pieces are the most specifically Japanese in their aesthetic: small, precise, connected to the tradition of carefully observed small botanical forms that Japanese aesthetics prizes. Pea green on the Ghost succulent form reads as the freshest, most natural green in the Japan Collection — not the depth of chocolate mint, not the warmth of peridot, but the specific cool green of a plant growing in filtered light. Longwood Gardens carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLongwood Gardens carries the Japan Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens with succulent collections have been making consistent purchasing decisions about this piece. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the plant lover who has plants and wants a ceramic plant on the wall\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pea Green Ghost Succulent ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. Longwood Gardens carries it. 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The Navy Blue Chalksticks Succulent is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a navy blue glaze, shaped in the Chalksticks form — those narrow upward-pointing leaves translated from their natural horizontal growth into a wall-mounted ceramic object that reads as both succulent and abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe upward-reaching form of a collection built on precise natural observation\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive has been making ceramic succulents since the Classic Collection, and the Navy Blue Chalksticks is the most architecturally distinctive of the Japan Collection succulents — the narrow upward-pointing form creates a presence on a wall that the rounded Ghost succulent rosette does not. In navy blue, the Chalksticks form reads as the Japan Collection at its most confrontational: the deep indigo color on the most directional succulent form. The Royal Ontario Museum carries the Japan Collection. It is, they have noted, one of their most frequently asked-about pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Royal Ontario Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario stocks it. The Toronto International Film Festival carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Toronto cultural institutions have been carrying this piece and fielding questions about it since the Japan Collection launched. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for someone who specifically wants the Japan Collection's most unusual form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Navy Blue Chalksticks Succulent ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Royal Ontario Museum carries it. The person who specifically wants the most unusual form in the Japan Collection receives the navy Chalksticks from the same collection the ROM chose to stock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339786657929,"sku":"JA16","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/3-succulent-navyblue-1.webp?v=1780410372"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-small-flower-brown","title":"Latte Daffodil","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the neutral warm tones needs the specific neutral that reads as connected to natural materials rather than selected from a paint range. Latte is that neutral in the Japan Collection: the warm brown-cream of milky coffee, of pale Japanese oak, of the warm neutral that appears in Japanese wabi-sabi interiors in the specific tone of aged natural materials. The Latte Daffodil is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a latte glaze — warm without being yellow, neutral without being grey, the specific tone that Japanese interior designers use when they want warmth without color — shaped in the daffodil form, with its characteristic trumpet and radiating petals that make the daffodil one of the most immediately recognizable flowers in the botanical calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe warm natural neutral of a collection built on Japanese material sensibility\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the Japanese aesthetic palette as the guide, and latte is the collection's warm neutral anchor — the tone that references the natural aged-wood warmth of Japanese wabi-sabi interiors, the specific cream-brown of Japanese pottery before the glaze, of linen worn soft, of the natural material palette that Japanese aesthetic tradition uses as the foundation of every interior. The daffodil form holds the latte glaze in its characteristic trumpet structure with a clarity that reads as both botanical and restrained. The Art Institute of Chicago carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art Institute of Chicago carries the Japan Collection. The Chrysler Museum of Art stocks it. The Huntington Library 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 Chicago to Norfolk to California have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room with natural materials that needs its warm neutral botanical\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Latte Daffodil ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Art Institute of Chicago carries it. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe warm earthy Japanese autumn on a characteristically delicate form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that needs the Japan Collection's warm autumn anchor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339786887305,"sku":"JA19","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA19-1.png?v=1776370906"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-small-flower-green-grey","title":"Moss Grey Oxeye Daisy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection reaches its most wabi-sabi moment with moss grey — the color of lichen on old stone, of moss on a Japanese garden rock, of the grey-green that reads as both aged and alive simultaneously. Moss grey is the color that appears in Japanese Zen garden design when stone and moss create the specific grey-green that Western color systems do not have a clean name for. The Moss Grey Oxeye Daisy is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a moss grey glaze, shaped in the Oxeye daisy form — the simple, open white-centered daisy that grows wild across every Japanese meadow and roadside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Zen garden color on the most characteristically wild daisy form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the full Japanese aesthetic palette, and moss grey is the collection's most wabi-sabi color — the color that reads as aged, as natural, as the specific grey-green that appears in every Zen garden where stone and moss have been in conversation for decades. The Oxeye daisy form holds the moss grey glaze in its simple open structure with the kind of unassuming presence that wabi-sabi aesthetic values — the flower that does not call attention to itself but rewards careful observation. The Huntington Library carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens carries the Japan 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 with Japanese garden collections have consistently chosen this piece. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person whose room references the Zen garden tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Moss Grey Oxeye Daisy ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Huntington Library carries it. The person whose room references the Zen garden tradition receives the Japan Collection's most wabi-sabi color in the most characteristically wild daisy form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339786920073,"sku":"JA13","price":32.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/4-oxeyedaisy-mossgrey-1.webp?v=1780344245"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-small-flower-blue","title":"Seasonal Blue Frikartii Aster","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe long-season botanical of a collection built on Japanese seasonal awareness\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSFMOMA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for someone who appreciates the aster's cultural and botanical significance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339786952841,"sku":"JA23","price":29.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/JA23-1.png?v=1776457329"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-small-flower-olive","title":"Avocado Green Petunia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection's avocado green is the deep, earthy warm green that reads as the most grounded position in the collection's botanical palette — not the cool pea green of the Ghost succulent, not the warm bamboo-yellow of the peridot, but the deep, warm, slightly brown-adjacent green that reads as earth and root and the specific color of mature avocado skin. The Avocado Green Petunia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in an avocado green glaze, shaped in the petunia form — the simple, trumpet-shaped bloom that has been grown in Japanese window boxes and container gardens since the Meiji era introduction of Western garden flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe deep warm green of a collection built on botanical specificity\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with three distinct greens — pea green (cool, fresh), peridot (warm, bamboo-yellow), and avocado green (deep, earthy, warm) — each occupying a distinct position in the botanical green palette. Avocado green is the deepest and most grounded of the three: the green that reads as shade and earth and mature botanical material rather than new growth. The petunia form holds the avocado green glaze in its simple trumpet structure with the kind of unfussy presence that the deep color benefits from — a more complex form would compete with the color, while the clean petunia trumpet lets the avocado green read without interference. Denver Botanic Gardens carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenver Botanic Gardens carries the Japan Collection. The Chicago Botanic Garden stocks it. The Atlanta Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens across the US have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that needs its deep earthy green botanical anchor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Avocado Green Petunia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. Denver Botanic Gardens carries it. The Japandi room with natural materials receives the Japan Collection's deepest earthy green from the same collection a botanical institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339787083913,"sku":"JA24","price":29.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/3.5-petunia-avocadogreen-1.webp?v=1780338119"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-mofo-blue","title":"Navy Dinner Plate Dahlia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection reaches its largest and most committed scale with the Dinner Plate Dahlia — the dahlia cultivar named for its extraordinary size, the botanical form that breeders have pushed to maximum scale. The Navy Dinner Plate Dahlia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a navy glaze — the Japanese indigo deep blue — shaped in the Dinner Plate cultivar, which produces the largest flower form in the dahlia species, with flat, broad petals arranged in concentric rings that fill a wall with presence the way a large Japanese woodblock print fills a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe largest botanical form in the deepest Japanese blue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 and the Navy Dinner Plate Dahlia is its largest and most commanding piece — the Japan Collection's statement piece, the equivalent of the Coastal Collection's large format pieces but in the Japan Collection's palette of deep Japanese indigo blue. The Dinner Plate dahlia's flat, broad petals in navy create a piece that reads from across a room as the most confident botanical statement the Japan Collection makes. The Chicago Field Museum carries the Japan Collection. Their gift shop provides the correct institutional context for a ceramic object this deliberately scaled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chicago Field Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stocks it. The Indianapolis Museum of Art carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Cultural institutions from Chicago to Cleveland to Indianapolis have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room with the wall space for the Japan Collection's largest statement\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Navy Dinner Plate Dahlia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Chicago Field Museum carries it. The room with the right wall space receives the Japan Collection's largest and most commanding piece from the same collection a major cultural institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339787182217,"sku":"JA25","price":107.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/9-dahlia-navy-1_fa183a41-7891-4005-9ce6-3250f1f64ae6.webp?v=1780414017"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-ecru-8","title":"Latte Empress Lotus","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection reaches its most culturally significant moment with the lotus — the Nelumbo nucifera, the sacred lotus that has been central to Japanese Buddhist tradition for over 1,400 years, the flower that appears on every Buddhist altar, in every temple garden, in every depiction of Buddhist enlightenment in Japanese art. The Latte Empress Lotus is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a latte glaze — the warm natural neutral of the Japan Collection's material palette — shaped in the Empress lotus form, which is one of the largest and most formally structured lotus cultivars, with broad, flat-opening petals that create a form of substantial presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe sacred botanical of a collection built on Japanese aesthetic tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the Japanese aesthetic tradition as the guiding principle, and the lotus is the most significant single botanical reference the collection makes. The lotus in Japanese culture is not merely a flower — it is the symbol of enlightenment, of purity emerging from muddy water, of the Buddhist concept that beauty and clarity can arise from difficult conditions. Latte on the Empress lotus form carries this cultural weight in the most restrained way possible — the warm neutral color removes any decorative distraction and allows the form itself to carry the meaning. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carries the Japan Collection. Their acquisition reflects an understanding that cultural significance and popular appeal are not mutually exclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carries the Japan Collection. The Indianapolis Museum of Art stocks it. The Andy Warhol Museum carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Cultural institutions with specific perspectives on meaning and form have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person who understands what the lotus means in Japanese culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Latte Empress Lotus ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carries it. 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The Metallic Frikartii Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a metallic glaze, shaped in the Frikartii aster form — the medium-sized, long-season aster cultivar whose standard version also appears in the Japan Collection in seasonal blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe lacquerware reference in a collection built on Japanese craft tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the Japanese aesthetic palette, and the metallic glaze is the collection's reference to the Japanese lacquerware tradition — the urushi lacquer with gold or silver leaf that has been one of Japan's most valued craft traditions for over a thousand years. A metallic ceramic aster on a wall references this tradition in a contemporary, approachable way: not the full weight of urushi lacquerware, but the quality of surface that Japanese craft tradition has always understood as valuable. 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The Latte Lola Echeveria is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a latte glaze, shaped in the Lola echeveria rosette form — the compact, symmetrical succulent rosette with slightly cupped leaves that create depth at the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe warm natural neutral on the most wabi-sabi succulent form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the full range of the Japanese aesthetic palette, and latte on the Lola echeveria rosette is the Japan Collection's most wabi-sabi succulent combination — the warm natural neutral of the Japanese material palette on the succulent form most associated with understated elegance and natural restraint. Lola echeveria in the living plant has pale, translucent grey-green leaves that age to a warm cream — the natural aging process produces a color very close to latte. In ceramic, the latte glaze captures the color that the living plant grows toward. 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Pear green is the Japan Collection's most understated botanical color: present without being vivid, warm without being yellow, the green that reads as the most naturally occurring color in the collection's green range. The Pear Green Calico Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a pear green glaze, shaped in the Calico aster form — a small, multi-petaled wildflower-type aster known for its fine, dense petals that create a different texture from the standard open daisy-like aster forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe nashi-green of a collection built on Japanese natural palette\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 around the Japanese aesthetic palette, and pear green references the specific warm-fresh yellow-green of the Japanese nashi pear — the fruit that has been central to Japanese agricultural and culinary tradition for centuries. In ceramic, pear green on the Calico aster creates a piece that reads as the most quietly botanical in the Japan Collection: the color that a plant might actually be, on the form that reads as most naturally occurring. The Andy Warhol Museum carries the Japan Collection. Their curatorial approach acknowledges that the most understated choice is sometimes the most interesting one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Andy Warhol Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Florence Griswold Museum stocks it. The Wadsworth Atheneum 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 specific perspectives on the relationship between the expected and the unexpected have independently decided this collection belongs in their gift shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person who values understatement in the Japan Collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pear Green Calico Aster ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Andy Warhol Museum carries it. 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The Grey Goyet Azalea is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a grey glaze, shaped in the Goyet azalea cultivar — a semi-double azalea form with a structured, layered appearance that reads as more formal than the standard open-face azalea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe refined cool neutral of a collection built on Japanese formal garden tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the full range of the Japanese aesthetic — from the wild wildflower forms through the Japanese craft tradition references to the formal garden cultivars. The azalea is central to Japanese formal garden design: the karikomi technique of shearing azaleas into precise shapes is one of the most iconic elements of Japanese landscape gardening, and the Goyet azalea's structured semi-double form references the cultivated end of the Japanese azalea tradition. In grey, the Goyet reads as the Japan Collection's most formal cool neutral — the azalea that has been to a Japanese formal garden and absorbed the precision. The Florence Griswold Museum carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Florence Griswold Museum carries the Japan Collection. The Parrish Museum in the Hamptons stocks it. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Art institutions and botanical gardens in New England have consistently chosen this piece. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the Japandi room that values formal Japanese garden aesthetics\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Grey Goyet Azalea ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Florence Griswold Museum carries it. The Japandi room that values formal Japanese garden aesthetics receives the Japan Collection's most formally cultivated azalea form in the collection's cool grey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41349491490953,"sku":"JA01","price":49.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/5-azalea-grey-1.webp?v=1780412261"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-white-8","title":"Cement Aqualla Gardenia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection's most material-specific neutral reaches its most architectural expression with cement — the grey-white of poured concrete, of Japanese architectural cement work, of the specific neutral that reads as both industrial and natural simultaneously, connected to the Japanese love of raw materials and the contemporary design tradition that has elevated concrete and cement to aesthetic material status. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a cement glaze, shaped in the Aqualla gardenia form — a compact, fully double gardenia cultivar with tight, layered petals that create a form with significant surface depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe raw material neutral of a collection built on Japanese material honesty\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with the Japanese aesthetic tradition's relationship to raw materials as one of its guiding principles — the wabi-sabi appreciation of natural and industrial materials in their honest, unadorned state. Cement as a glaze color references the exposed concrete and cement finishes that contemporary Japanese architecture and interior design has been using since the 1960s, from Tadao Ando's raw concrete temples to the contemporary minimalist concrete interiors that Japandi design has adopted. The Aqualla gardenia form holds the cement glaze in its tight layered petals with precision. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Berkshire Botanical Garden carries the Japan Collection. The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens stocks it. The Norfolk Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Botanical gardens from New England to the Mid-Atlantic have independently decided this collection belongs in their shops. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA gift for the person whose room includes raw concrete or cement surfaces\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cement Aqualla Gardenia ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries it. The person with raw concrete surfaces in their home receives the Japan Collection's most material-specific neutral botanical from the same collection a botanical institution chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41349814747273,"sku":"JA10","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/3-gardenia-cement-1.webp?v=1780413880"},{"product_id":"ceramic-flower-wall-art-flower-aqua-black-8","title":"Grey Green Monch Aster","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapandi wall art in the Japan Collection concludes its palette with grey green — the color that bridges the cool grey tradition and the botanical green tradition, the specific tone that reads as both simultaneously, the grey-green of Japanese moss on stone, of the patina on aged Japanese bronze, of the specific color that appears when grey and green have been in conversation for a long time. The Grey Green Monch Aster is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Japan Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a grey green glaze, shaped in the Monch aster form — the classic large-flowered daisy-like aster cultivar that is one of the most planted asters in traditional garden design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe bridge color of a collection built on the full Japanese aesthetic palette\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChive designed the Japan Collection in 2020 with a palette that covers the full range of the Japanese aesthetic — the deep blues, the botanical greens, the natural neutrals, the specific earthy tones, and the bridge colors that connect them. Grey green is the Japan Collection's bridge color: it connects the cool grey of the Japanese sumi ink tradition to the botanical green of the Japanese garden tradition, the color that reads as occupying both aesthetic territories simultaneously. 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