Ceramic Flower Fractal Lilac 5
by Chive Ceramics Studio
$46.20
A gift for a sister-in-law needs to read as considered rather than last-minute, and Ceramic Flower Fractal Lilac 5 does that work on its own. It shares its splitting, watch-engraving petal structure with the studio's black fractal piece, but lilac turns the same unnerving shape into something a grandmother would happily display in a guest bathroom. Color is doing most of the emotional labor here, and it still reads easily as classic home decor in a hallway or entryway. Artisans shape these pieces by hand, so the branching pattern never repeats exactly from one fractal to the next. One picture hook mounts it for good, needing no water and no birthday reminder app afterward. It doubles as a gift for a mom's birthday without ever requiring a vase. The New York Botanical Garden's gift shop has stocked Chive ceramic pieces before, this lilac fractal among them, a short walk from the actual conservatory greenhouses.