Ceramic Flower Dusk Box SetClaudia Schiffer is a massive groupie of our Ceramic Flowers. And no wonder. When we started making them, Vanity Fair listed them as one of their coolest new products. Now we are 14 lines deep, with over 125 pieces. Initially we just wanted to design a tchotchke, then we figured out they should be hung on the wall as well! Now we get random orders of 1000 pieces for an install. Thats a lot of groupies.

But everything was cheap looking

' she told me later

I turned the piece over

replacing a vintage advertisement for canned peas that my brother had rescued from a dumpster behind an antique store

standing there with a giant blue blossom that looked like it had escaped from Alice's Wonderland after a particularly wild tea party

Three years after buying it

or at least Chive's abstract interpretation of one

It was a teal marvel with petals so spiked

" But I saw beyond its prickly exterior

much to the confusion of dinner guests who probably thought I was trying to high-five my wall

now the proud owner of a ceramic flower that could probably be mistaken for an alien life form

"I have taste