Cement Aqualla Gardenia

One screw and 90 seconds. That is the complete installation. One small screw into the wall, keyhole slot on the back of the flower, and the Cement Aqualla Gardenia is up. No special hardware, no anchors, no contractor. The wall you have right now is the correct wall. It will be there when you have forgotten the installation entirely, which happens faster than you would expect for a ceramic flower.

Gardenia flower meaning centers on purity, secret love, and a specific kind of grace that operates without requiring acknowledgment. The gardenia in floral tradition is associated with giving something of value without making the giving visible -- the gift that is present without announcing itself. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia carries this meaning in a color that suggests the opposite of the occasions gardenias are usually associated with, which we find produces the most interesting version of the gardenia meaning.

Best friend gift ideas that communicate the specific quality of a friendship that has lasted long enough to have an aesthetic vocabulary in common require something that says the wall has been thought about. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia is a wall object for a best friend who has considered their space carefully and would appreciate that you noticed.

Powder room decor operates in the smallest room in most homes, which means a single deliberate object can define the space entirely. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia operates as exactly this kind of object. The cement glaze is cool and mineral and architectural, and in the context of a small room where the finishes have been considered, it reads as exactly as intentional as the tile or the hardware or whatever else the powder room contains.

The Cement Aqualla Gardenia is aware of this and has assessed the situation and found it favourable. Cement is the color of decisions made without sentiment, of surfaces that accept what is placed on them without editorialising. The gardenia, which has aligned itself with silk and formal occasions and the anticipation of something important, arrived in cement and found it more interesting than expected. The parking structure comparison was made once in our studio and the person who made it now owns two Cement Aqualla Gardenias. We consider this the appropriate outcome.

Industrial home decor works from the position that architectural materials -- concrete, steel, raw surfaces -- and considered objects can occupy the same space. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia fits this position precisely. The cement glaze is architectural. The gardenia form is botanical and soft. The contrast between them is the point, and the industrial decor context is exactly the right frame for a contrast that would be less visible in a softer room.

Yes. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia arrives in a Chive gift box, ready to give without additional wrapping. If you are shipping it directly to the recipient, the outer packaging protects the box in transit. The inner box is what they open. We have put a significant amount of thought into what a ceramic flower looks like when someone opens it for the first time and the current answer is: considerably better than it did in 2002.

Indefinitely, with no maintenance required. The Cement Aqualla Gardenia is ceramic -- the glaze is permanent, the form does not change, and it does not respond to seasons, light levels, watering schedules, or the general passage of time. We have flowers from the early 2000s still on the walls of people who bought them when they moved into apartments they have since left, taken the flower with them, and hung it in the next place. Ceramic does not negotiate with time.