Coastal Ceramic Flower Collection

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

Coastal Collection ceramic wall flowers come in two palettes: ivory and blue-white. The ivory range is the classic Coastal — spider mums, chrysanthemums, roses, ranunculas, peonies, and more in the most versatile neutral in the Chive range. The Nantucket range is blue-white — eleven designs that take the Coastal palette into the blue-and-ivory territory that has been on beach house walls since before beach houses were a category.

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 color 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. Colors 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.

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Chive artisan hand-made ceramic flower petal without molds with keyholes for hanging

Chive Studio has been designing and handmaking ceramic wall flowers in Toronto since 1999. Every flower in the Coastal Collection is individually glazed in ivory, powder blue, and blue-white — a palette that was developed to hold its own in rooms with natural light and rooms without it. No two glazes are identical. The powder blue anemone on your wall will carry its own slight variation. This is not inconsistency. It is what handmade looks like at close range.

The Coastal Collection is the neutral range — which means it combines with every other Chive collection without an argument. Ivory and blue-white glazes work next to France Collection blush and peach, alongside English Garden cream and burgundy, and beside Japan Collection navy and avocado. For a pre-arranged combination, the curated sets contain Coastal flowers alongside flowers from other collections. All the arrangement decisions have been made. You are welcome to disagree with them, but most people do not.

Frequently asked questions about the Coastal Collection

What is coastal wall art and does the Coastal Collection fit the style?

Coastal wall art refers to pieces that produce the calm, restrained quality associated with rooms near water — ivory, white, soft blue, and blue-white in organic shapes that suggest space rather than fill it. The Coastal Collection was designed for exactly this. Twenty-five handmade ceramic wall flowers in ivory, blue-white, champagne, powder blue, and duck egg blue. It fits coastal rooms. It also fits any room that has decided restraint is the correct approach to a wall.

What colors and flower types are in the Coastal Collection?

Ivory white, blue-white, champagne, powder blue, and duck egg blue across 25 designs. Peonies, ranunculas, dahlias, camellias, anemones, clematis, proteas, hellebores, sunflowers, water lilies, and the Ivory Sea Lettuce Large — a design that is exactly what it sounds like and exactly what a coastal wall needs. The Blue White Keiko Peony and the Ivory White Hermione Peony are the most frequently purchased designs in the collection.

How do Coastal Collection flowers mount on a wall?

Each Coastal Collection ceramic flower has a keyhole fitting on the back. One small screw in the wall, the flower hangs on it, the process takes approximately 90 seconds from opening the box. The screw and wall anchor are included in every order. No tools required beyond a screwdriver. The flowers do not shift, tilt, or require re-levelling after hanging. If you move them, you remove one screw and fill a small hole. The wall looks exactly as it did before. The flower moves to its new location.

Can Coastal Collection flowers be mixed with other Chive collections?

Yes — the Coastal Collection was designed specifically to function as the neutral foundation for mixed arrangements. The ivory and blue-white palette shares tonal ancestry with the France Collection blush and champagne tones, and with the English Garden ivory and cream designs. All 150+ Chive designs are part of a coordinated colour system developed over twenty-five years. The Coastal Collection is the most versatile range in the lineup precisely because its restraint works with everything around it.

Is the Coastal Collection a good gift for a wife?

It is a very good gift for a wife, for reasons that go beyond the palette. The Coastal Collection arrives in a gift-ready box that presents well without additional wrapping. The flowers mount on a wall in 90 seconds and stay there indefinitely. They are handmade by a studio stocked at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. A blue-white peony from a studio that has been making them since 1999 is the kind of gift that improves in retrospect. The wall it hangs on will confirm this.

What makes the Coastal Collection different from other coastal home decor?

Most coastal home decor involves either a seashell or a significant commitment to the nautical metaphor. The Coastal Collection involves neither. It is ceramic wall flowers in ivory and blue-white — the palette of coastal rooms without the visual vocabulary of coastal cliche. The Monterey Bay Aquarium stocks it. That is, in some respects, a more relevant endorsement of coastal credentials than the presence of a rope on the packaging.

Does the Coastal Collection ship internationally?

The Coastal Collection ships to over 40 countries from warehouses in Toronto, New York, and Rotterdam. North American orders arrive within 5 to 10 business days. European orders ship from the Rotterdam warehouse and typically arrive within 7 to 14 business days. Every order ships in a gift-ready box that presents well without additional wrapping. Free shipping applies to orders over $75. The Coastal Collection has been shipped to places with actual coasts. It looks good there too.

How many flowers do you need to make a coastal wall arrangement look intentional?

Three is where an arrangement begins to look like a decision rather than an accident. Five is where it starts to look planned. Seven is where people ask who did your wall. The Coastal Collection was designed so that any combination of designs, in any quantity, works together without a layout diagram or a second opinion. Start with three. The Ivory White Hermione Peony, the Blue White Keiko Peony, and the Duck Egg Blue Camellia is a combination that has been independently arrived at by a very large number of people. There is a reason for this.