Unique Gifts: Ceramic Flowers, Ornaments, Cards & Candles

Unique gifts are the ones the recipient still has in five years. Chive Studio has designed that kind of object in Toronto since 2004: ceramic wall flowers shaped by hand and formed one at a time, glass ornaments painted by hand, cards, candles and jigsaw puzzles. This page is built to route you, not to make you scroll. The tiles above open each category; the recipient links send you straight to the pages we have written for a particular person or occasion; the grid below is a short list of the pieces we would give ourselves.

Museums and botanical gardens carry Chive work in their shops because it photographs well, ships well and holds its value on a shelf. For gift buyers that translates to three practical things: nothing here needs a particular wall colour or a particular style of home to work, a boxed set arrives ready to give without wrapping, and a gift card covers the moment you truly cannot decide. If you want a hand, the FAQs at the bottom answer the questions we hear most in November and December.