A slow left-to-right pan across France Collection ceramic flowers — french country decor in blush, peach, and soft teal.

France Collection — Ceramic Wall Flowers

The romantic palette. Blush, peach, and one unreasonable teal.
WITH: Romantic palette · The 9th-anniversary collection · 7.5–15 cm · Hangs on one screw · Ships from Rotterdam in 2–5 days, no EU duties · Stocked at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs boutique · Prices include VAT
WITH: Romantic palette · The 9th-anniversary collection · 7.5–15 cm · Hangs on one screw · Ships from Rotterdam in 2–5 days, no EU duties · Stocked at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs boutique · Prices include VAT

French country decor pairs romance with restraint — soft color, aged surfaces, nothing that looks new even when it is. The France Collection carries that palette in hand-glazed ceramic: blush, peach, and teal wall flowers, designed in Toronto, each hanging flat on a single screw, permanently in season.


The France Collection is the romantic register of the Chive range: camellias, roses, and peonies in blush, peach, cream, and teal — the palette of French country rooms, Parisian apartments, and anyone who believes a wall can be flattering. Each flower is hand-glazed — designed in Toronto, made by hand — and mounts flush on a single small screw, hardware included.

This is also the collection the 9th anniversary chose. The ninth year's traditional gift is pottery, and a kiln-fired ceramic flower answers the tradition in its own material while skipping the shelf entirely: pottery, hung as art, marking the year at eye level. Couples start with one flower at year nine and let the wall accrue from there. Beyond anniversaries, the palette does what French country style always does — it makes rooms look warmer and their owners look like they inherited good taste. The flowers only look delicate. The glaze is fired for decades.

Pottery Anniversary Gift

The 9th anniversary gift is pottery by tradition, and this collection answers it literally: kiln-fired ceramic, shaped and glazed by hand, made to hang rather than to hold. A France Collection flower in blush or teal marks year nine in the correct material and stays on the wall through every anniversary after it. Nine years in, the cabinet is full. The tradition never said the pottery had to go in it.

French Country Style

French country style works by suggestion — soft palettes, handworked surfaces, rooms that seem assembled over generations. Ceramic wall flowers suit the method: hand-glazed blooms in the France palette, hung in loose arrangements that read as collected rather than bought. One flower over a doorway is a detail. Five up a stair wall is a point of view. Both are how French rooms make their arguments: quietly, in colour, without a single word of explanation.

Exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show since 2013; twice awarded the 5-star booth award — only two are given each year. Awarded a 4-star booth award at the 2026 show. Stocked at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs boutique, 107 rue de Rivoli, 200+ art galleries and botanical gardens worldwide. In the EU you will also find Chive at Fleux in Paris. Designed in Toronto since 2004, made by hand. Ships from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. No duties within the EU.

Reviewed by Todd Newgren, co-founder · Updated September 2026

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Frequently asked questions about the France Collection

Can you rearrange France Collection flowers after hanging them? 

Yes — each flower hangs on its own single screw, so any piece lifts off and rehangs in seconds. Arrangements can grow, shrink, or reshuffle as the room changes; the keyhole mount makes every layout a draft rather than a commitment.

Do ceramic wall flowers damage the wall?

No — one small screw per flower, the same hole a picture frame leaves, and the piece sits flat with nothing that swings or scrapes. Removal leaves a single filled screw hole. Rental walls and plaster walls handle these routinely.

What is a good 9th anniversary gift?

The 9th anniversary gift is pottery, which is the tradition at its most literal and, historically, its most disappointing — nine years of marriage, commemorated by a bowl. A France Collection ceramic flower keeps the material and fires the brief properly: kiln-fired, hand-glazed, and hung on the wall where the year can actually be seen. It arrives gift-ready, installs with one screw, and starts a habit — one flower per anniversary, a wall that accrues alongside the marriage. The bowl holds keys. The flower holds the year. Only one of them gets asked about at dinner parties.

What is a good gift for a wedding?

A gift for a wedding that outlasts the registry: a pair of ceramic wall flowers from the France Collection gives the couple their first art rather than their fourth appliance. The romantic palette suits the occasion, the box arrives ready to hand over, and the flowers hang with one screw each — the beginning of a wall the marriage can add to.

What are good wedding anniversary gifts?

Wedding anniversary gifts work best when they mark the year and then stay: a hand-glazed ceramic flower does both, hung at eye level rather than stored in a cabinet. The France Collection is the natural home for the pottery year, and one flower per anniversary builds a wall that records the marriage as it goes. Cut flowers mark the evening. These mark the decade.

What is french farmhouse decor?

French farmhouse decor is the countryside register of French style: warm neutrals, worn wood, soft florals, and handmade objects that look like they came with the house. Ceramic wall flowers in cream, blush, and peach slot straight into it — visible handwork, garden colour, no vase required. The style wants things that feel found. These feel found, and hang with one screw.

What works as french country wall decor?

French country wall decor favours dimension over posters: plates, mirrors, ironwork — and now hand-glazed ceramic flowers, which bring the garden element the style always implies. A loose cluster of France Collection blooms above a sideboard or along a hallway carries the palette and the handwork in one gesture. The wall reads collected. The installation took four screws.

What is parisian decor?

Parisian decor is the apartment version of French style — herringbone floors, ornate trim, and a deliberate mix of old and new in a small footprint. Wall-mounted ceramic flowers fit the constraint exactly: art with dimension that takes no floor space, hand-glazed in a palette the style already speaks. In a city that decorates vertically, flowers that hang are simply local custom.

2004 Making ceramics since
200+ Institutions worldwide

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2 x 5-star booth award — winner
Exhibiting since 2013

About Chive Studio

Chive Studio has designed ceramic wall flowers in Toronto since 2004; the France Collection carries the romantic register — blush, peach, and teal in hand-glazed ceramic, each flower hanging on one screw, shipping from Rotterdam with no duties within the EU. Prices include VAT. It is also the home of the 9th-anniversary pottery tradition. For the neighbouring moods, country cottage decor holds the cottage palette, japandi wall art the dark one, and the full range of ceramic wall art covers everything else. Stocking Chive? Trade accounts and Faire EU 

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