Avocado Green Sorbet Peony

One screw only. No adhesive, nothing that peels off when the temperature changes. A single small screw goes into the wall, the keyhole slot on the back of the Avocado Green Sorbet Peony drops onto it, and that is the complete installation. It has been one screw and we see no reason to complicate it.

Peony flower meaning centers on prosperity, beauty, and good fortune -- the peony has been associated with abundance and positive outcomes in Eastern and Western floral traditions for centuries. The avocado green glaze on the sorbet peony form brings the prosperity meaning into contact with a color that has had its own complicated relationship with cultural fortune over the past thirty years. The peony found this unremarkable. The peony is not following the news.

A 30th birthday gift for her that communicates genuine attention to the person rather than to the milestone requires something specific. The Avocado Green Sorbet Peony is a ceramic wall flower in a color that has its own complicated relationship with the concept of comeback and a form that is generous and full and completely unbothered by the question of which decade it belongs to. It is permanent. It goes on the wall of the next decade.

The Avocado Green Sorbet Peony is not aware of this, and we consider its lack of awareness to be the most important quality it brought to the collaboration. The color was chosen from the Japan Collection palette without reference to the broader avocado green cultural moment, which means the avocado green on the Sorbet Peony is not performing a comeback. It is simply avocado green, in the context of a Japanese botanical ceramic tradition, doing what avocado green does when nobody is watching it do a comeback: being a color. We find this considerably more useful than the alternative.

Nursery wall decor benefits from colors that read as warm without being saturated, specific without being demanding, and permanent without being impersonal. The Avocado Green Sorbet Peony meets all three of these requirements. The avocado green glaze is warm and botanical without being aggressively green. The sorbet peony form is soft and full. It will be on the wall when the nursery becomes something else.

Sage green wall decor has a specific quality -- warm enough to read as botanical, cool enough to read as restrained, specific enough to communicate that the color was chosen rather than arrived at. The Avocado Green Sorbet Peony sits in this color family and provides a wall art option that reads from within the palette rather than against it. The avocado green glaze is botanical and warm. It belongs in a sage green room.

Yes. The Avocado Green Sorbet Peony 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 Avocado Green Sorbet Peony 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.