Olive Mum 5
Classic Collection ceramic wall flowers at the smaller scales are the range where the glaze quality is most visible — where there is not enough surface area for a weak color to hide behind its own scale. The Olive Mum is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Classic Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in an olive glaze, shaped in the chrysanthemum form at 5-inch scale. Olive is the specific earthy green that reads as wabi-sabi before wabi-sabi was a searchable term — the green of aged botanical material, of the natural material palette that the Classic Collection was working with a decade before the Japan Collection codified it as an aesthetic position.
The glaze that Briana made work before the aesthetic had a name
Briana's leftover glaze experiments in the Classic Collection have produced glazes that later became understood as belonging to aesthetic categories that didn't exist when she made them. Olive on the small chrysanthemum form is one of those: the earthy warm green that reads as wabi-sabi, as aged natural material, as the color of botanical matter in its most understated state. At 5-inch scale, the olive mum rewards close inspection — the glaze variation in the chrysanthemum's small layered petals is visible in a way that a larger form would distribute away from the viewer's immediate range. Longwood Gardens carries the Classic Collection.
Longwood Gardens carries the Classic Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999. the Indianapolis Museum of Art stocks it.
A gift for the person who values small-scale botanical precision in an earthy neutral
The Olive Mum ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. Longwood Gardens carries it. The person who values botanical precision at small scale in the Classic Collection's most understated earthy green receives the 5-inch version.
Description
Classic Collection ceramic wall flowers at the smaller scales are the range where the glaze quality is most visible — where there is not enough surface area for a weak color to hide behind its own scale. The Olive Mum is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the Classic Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in an olive glaze, shaped in the chrysanthemum form at 5-inch scale. Olive is the specific earthy green that reads as wabi-sabi before wabi-sabi was a searchable term — the green of aged botanical material, of the natural material palette that the Classic Collection was working with a decade before the Japan Collection codified it as an aesthetic position.
The glaze that Briana made work before the aesthetic had a name
Briana's leftover glaze experiments in the Classic Collection have produced glazes that later became understood as belonging to aesthetic categories that didn't exist when she made them. Olive on the small chrysanthemum form is one of those: the earthy warm green that reads as wabi-sabi, as aged natural material, as the color of botanical matter in its most understated state. At 5-inch scale, the olive mum rewards close inspection — the glaze variation in the chrysanthemum's small layered petals is visible in a way that a larger form would distribute away from the viewer's immediate range. Longwood Gardens carries the Classic Collection.
Longwood Gardens carries the Classic Collection. The McKee Botanical Garden stocks it. The Berkshire Botanical Garden carries it. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show awarded Chive the 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for 13 consecutive years. Chive has been designing and making ceramic flowers in Toronto since 1999. the Indianapolis Museum of Art stocks it.
A gift for the person who values small-scale botanical precision in an earthy neutral
The Olive Mum ships in a Chive gift box. It hangs with one screw in 90 seconds. Longwood Gardens carries it. The person who values botanical precision at small scale in the Classic Collection's most understated earthy green receives the 5-inch version.
