Clear Glass Modern Flower Vase - Dent - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto
Clear Glass Modern Flower Vase - Dent - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto

Glass Vases

Dent Glass Modern Flower Vase

$15.95
Hand Blown Glass
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

Build the Arrangement That Looks Harder Than It Was

Pick a vase to anchor the shelf, then add the rest until it reads as curated instead of collected.

The dent vase exists because somebody reached for the wrong tool. A junior pulled a batch off the flame with the wrong grip and every piece came out pushed in along one side, and she was mortified in the particular way you are only mortified during your first year somewhere, convinced the batch was scrapped and her position along with it. We looked at them and admitted, one by one, that we liked them better this way. Now the dented glass vase is made dented deliberately, which is either redemption or an elaborate cover story for a good accident. She still brings it up. We let her. An organic shape glass vase this small, three inches in both directions, does its best work holding a few short stems where the flaw catches light at eye level. Batch after batch, these are shaped individually by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2020
Dimension
  • 7.62 cm (3") diameter, 7.62 cm (3") height
Vase Care Instructions

All glass vases in this collection are dishwasher safe for easy cleaning, with one exception: mercury glass vases should be hand-washed only. The silvered mercury finish is a delicate coating rather than a solid color, and dishwasher heat and detergent can dull or strip it over time.

For standard glass vases, just load it in with the rest of the dishes — no special care needed. For mercury glass pieces, wash gently with warm water and mild soap, and dry with a soft cloth rather than letting it air dry with water spots.

Rinse and dry after each use, especially if flower food or cut-stem residue was in the water, so nothing lingers and clouds the glass.
Flowers that Love this Vase
  • Daffodil
  • Buttercup
  • Lavender
  • Anemone
  • Yarrow
  • Craspedia
  • Larkspur
  • Sea Holly
  • Camellia
  • Iceland Poppy

Quick Guide to Building a Floral Arrangement

  1. Pick your vase first
  2. Start with your anchor flower.
  3. Build in odd numbers.
  4. Add height, then fill.
  5. Greenery does the quiet work.
  6. Cut stems at an angle, underwater if you can.
  7. Step back before you decide it's done.
Shipping & returns

Shipping

  • Free shipping: Orders $200+ within the US
  • 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

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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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A Mistake We Decided To Keep Making

Reproducing an accident turns out to be considerably harder than having one. The original batch came out wrong in a specific and rather beautiful way, and the instruction that followed — make them like that again — was received by everybody at the bench as a hostile act. A dent that happens by mistake lands somewhere random and reads as damage. A dent that lands identically on four hundred pieces reads as a moulding seam, which is worse than damage, because it is boring. So the actual brief was to produce a controlled variation: same depth, same rough position, never the same twice. That took most of a season to settle and involved a tool nobody outside this building would recognise as a tool. I am told it began life as part of a bicycle. What we ended up with is a piece where the flaw sits differently on every one, which means the shelf of them looks like a batch rather than a print run. Nobody buys two identical ones. They could not if they wanted to, and a surprising number of people write in afterwards to say they compared theirs against the photograph on the website and found the hollow sitting somewhere else entirely, which they seem to enjoy rather more than they expected.

Chive Studio trimming tulip stems with scissors on a wooden surface, with white, purple, and pink tulips arranged nearby.
How to Cut Flowers Like a Pro:

A (Mostly) Simple Guide to Cutting Your Flowers

So, you’re making an arrangement? Let’s ensure it lives long enough to impress someone—even if it's just you.

  1. Scrub the Scissors: Wash your shears first. Your flowers do not want a side of Dorito dust.
  2. Cut at 45°: Snip stems at an angle. It gives them a straw instead of making them chug from the bottle.
  3. Trim Underwater (Fancy Mode): Cut them submerged to block air bubbles. It’s extra, but they didn’t ask to suffocate.
  4. Ditch Submerged Leaves: Strip anything below the waterline. Unless you are actively going for a swamp aesthetic.
  5. Snip Again if Stale: If they sat out on the counter, trim them again. They need a fresh start (don’t we all?).
  6. Swap the Water: Change it and trim the stems every few days so they don't die immediately.

Voilà! You are now a domestic deity. Go take your Instagram photo before you forget to water them.

Pro Tip: The light does half the work.

Glass catches and bends light in a way ceramic can't. Set the arrangement somewhere it'll get some late afternoon sun, even for an hour, and the water and stems start doing something a solid vase never will.

Perfect Pairs for Any Shelf

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The Same Flaw, Handled Differently

The glass vases at Chive come out of the same studio habit that produced everything else here: design the object once, correctly, then resist every opportunity to complicate it. Each one holds stems. None of them hides anything. Here the single decision was to keep a flaw and repeat it. Follow the same logic into warmer material and you arrive at the Copper Glass Vase, which handles its own irregularity rather differently.

Confidence, Not An Accident

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. Most of the glass vases collection is built on precision, on symmetry holding and walls staying even, because that is what glass rewards when it is worked properly. This piece sits against that grain deliberately. It exists to demonstrate that a controlled irregularity reads as confidence, whereas an uncontrolled one simply reads as a second. The distance between those two outcomes is smaller than anybody comfortable would like.

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Light Moving Across A Dented Wall

Stand the XOXO Candle beside it and the pairing works on scale before anything else, both objects being roughly a handspan and neither asking for attention. Candlelight moving across a dented wall does something a flat one cannot, throwing the shape onto whatever is behind. Light the candle. Watch the wall.

Accidents, Audited Carefully

Since 2004 a reliable share of the Chive catalogue has arrived by mistake rather than by intention, and we have stopped pretending otherwise in the interest of accuracy. A misfired glaze, a wrong tool, a kiln running hotter than anybody meant it to: each has produced something we later put a price on. The skill is not in having accidents, which requires no skill whatsoever and happens constantly. It is in recognising one before it goes into the bin, and then in working out how to repeat it deliberately without the result looking manufactured. Most studios throw these away without a second glance. We keep looking at them first, and roughly one in forty earns a second look after that.

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Frequently asked questions

How does the Dent earn its name as a dent vase?

Honestly, by being dented, which is the least mysterious naming decision in the catalogue. One side is pushed inward roughly a thumb's depth, the glass thickens slightly around that hollow, and light collects there instead of passing straight through. You notice it before you notice the shape holding it. Everything else about the piece is unremarkable. The hollow is the product.

Do short-stemmed garden flowers work well in the Dent vase?

They are the reason it exists. Anything trimmed under six inches has nowhere sensible to go in an ordinary vessel and ends up drowning below the rim, whereas here the whole stem stays in proportion. Buttercup, anemone and yarrow all sit well. Craspedia works particularly nicely, holding its heads just clear. Garden cuttings beat florist stems.

What footprint does the Dent vase take up on a table?

Roughly a drinks coaster, and about the same again in height, so it disappears onto a crowded surface in a way taller pieces cannot manage. That is the practical argument for owning several. Grouped in threes on a table they occupy less room collectively than one conventional vase would demand. Small footprint, repeatable.

Is the Dent vase's glass body durable for everyday use?

More than it looks, because the wall thickens where the hollow was pushed in and that region ends up the strongest part of the piece rather than the weakest. Everyday handling, refilling and moving between rooms present no difficulty at all. The rim is the vulnerable edge, as it is on any vessel. Avoid knocking it against taps.

Is the Dent vase dishwasher safe or hand wash only?

Hand wash, and not because of any coating. It is short enough that a dishwasher rack will tip it during the cycle, at which point it fills with whatever else is being washed and comes out dirtier than it went in. We have seen the photographs. A sink takes twenty seconds. Use the sink.

Does the Dent vase work as decor without any flowers in it?

Better than most vessels do, since an empty vase usually announces that somebody forgot to buy flowers. This one has a feature to look at regardless of what is or is not inside it, and the hollow catches whatever light the room offers. Fill it with pebbles if the emptiness troubles you. Most people leave it alone.

What makes the Dent vase different from the Copper vase nearby?

Temperature, mostly. The Copper carries a warm metallic finish across three separate forms and reads as an object with a colour, where this stays entirely clear and reads as an object with a shape. One furnishes a room. The other disappears into it until the light moves. Warm against cold, colour against form.

How did the Dent vase's design evolve at Chive studio?

It did not evolve so much as get adopted. A misgrip at the flame produced a batch nobody had asked for in 2020, the batch survived the review that should have ended it, and the fault became the specification within about a fortnight. Refinement came afterwards and took considerably longer than anybody wanted. The idea arrived by accident.
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