Pearlescent Sea Lettuce Medium
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Designed to cluster naturally, like a wild garden. Choose a flower as your design anchor, then grow your custom floral wall with these companions:
Vintage wall decor often works best when a piece feels like it came from somewhere specific, and this pearlescent sea lettuce medium came out of the studio's own color-study line. One lettuce shape was produced in ten colors and three sizes, built specifically so the team could compare hues side by side under real studio light. This is the medium-sized result from that experiment, and when it was run through the pearlescent glaze just to see what would happen, it held up next to the roses well enough to earn a permanent place in the lineup. It's less a flower, honestly, and more a piece of internal testing that turned out good enough to sell. Each lettuce shape still passes through a person's hands at the studio, not a mold, which is where the small ruffled irregularities come from. The Wadsworth Atheneum has exhibited decorative arts chosen for that same layered, textural quality. It reads as collected rather than matched, which is exactly the feeling vintage-leaning rooms are usually after.
- Material: Ceramic
- Glaze finish: Pearlescent Glazed
- Mounting: Keyhole for Wall Hanging
- Color: Pearlescent White
- Packaging: Individually packaged in gift ready box
- Glaze Variation: Natural variation between pieces
- Year Designed: 2023
Wall hanging
Works on drywall, plaster, or wood panelling. Drive a small screw at a slight upward angle, leaving the head proud of the wall. Slide the keyhole slot on the back over the screw head, adjust to level. Sits flush — no visible hardware.
No stud? No problem. A drywall anchor rated for the weight works fine.
Displaying a collection
Lay everything out on the floor first. Start with your anchor piece, build outward. Keep 2–3 inches between each piece and aim for the centre of the whole arrangement to land around eye level. Use painter's tape on the wall to map positions before committing to any screws.
Table & shelf display: Equally beautiful propped on a shelf, mantle, or side table. Pair with books, candles, or a small pot.
- Dust with a soft dry cloth or soft-bristled brush. Do not use wet cloths or liquid cleaners.
- Keep away from direct moisture, steam, and outdoor conditions. Indoor display only.
- Handle by the base or stem — avoid pressure on individual petals.
- If storing, return to original gift box with foam insert for protection.
Shipping
- Free shipping: On qualifying US orders — threshold shown at checkout
- Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
- International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
- Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box
Returns
We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.
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Retired, Not Regretted
Every design starts as an idea we believe in completely, until eventually some don't sell the way we hoped, or a shape we loved five years ago quietly stops matching what our shelves need now. Ceramic flowers get phased out for reasons that have nothing to do with quality and everything to do with the ordinary math of running a studio: limited shelf space, a glaze that's harder to source, a collection that's simply run its course.
Retirement doesn't happen because the flower stopped working. Whatever ends up here still holds its shape, still keeps its color, still does the one thing a ceramic flower is supposed to do indefinitely. It's out of regular production because the studio's attention has moved on, not because the piece asked to be dismissed.
This is where those pieces land. Our loss is your gain, and also a limited one — once what's here sells through, it's gone, since we no longer make more of it.
Ceramic flowers that outlasted their own collection. Available while supplies last, permanently.
Three ways to display it
Stunning table accent
Prop on a table, shelf, or beside books.
A gift that arrives beautifully
Beautiful Signature box. No wrapping needed.
Ready to hang wall art
One screw. No Frame. Solo or gallery wall
How to hang ceramic wall flowers?
One screw. One keyhole on the back. Ninety seconds and it's on the wall. The video shows exactly how it happens — no special hardware, no second holes, no contractor on speed dial. Whether you're hanging one piece or planning a full gallery wall, the hanging guide walks you through both.
An Arrangement That Never Wilts
Chive got into ceramic flowers for the same reason most people eventually give up on real ones: something in a vase kept dying, and nobody on staff could keep it alive long enough to matter. The fix was to stop working with anything that had a shelf life, and start hand-shaping petals out of clay instead, one at a time, with no molds involved and no shortcuts taken on the parts nobody else would notice.
That decision turned into an actual discipline. Every petal gets shaped by hand, every glaze gets tested until the color reads as botanical instead of ceramic, and the finished piece holds its color under whatever light it ends up living under, including the unforgiving track lighting found in museum galleries.
Those galleries have had opinions. Chive's ceramic flowers have shown up at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for 14 consecutive years, plus the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Getty Museum, SFMOMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More than 200 institutions across 40-plus countries have picked a Chive piece for their walls, which is a strange amount of validation for something that started as a solution to bad plant care.
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