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Glass Vases

Elon Glass Bud Vase For Flowers

$15.59
Sizes
Hand Blown Glass
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

Pickup available at A.N. Deringer c/o Chive Inc

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Build the Arrangement That Looks Harder Than It Was

Pick a vase to anchor the shelf, then add the rest until it reads as curated instead of collected.

The Elon vase is sculpted rather than blown into a plain tube, and that is the entire argument for owning one. As a sculpted bud vase it accepts a single stem and gives that stem nowhere to hide: no supporting cast, no filler, no greenery to disguise an awkward angle. Get the flower right and the arrangement is done. Get it wrong and the whole room can tell. Both heights measure 2.5 inches across and only the vertical changes, 6 inches on the tall against 4 on the short, so a pair reads as a pair rather than an error. What a small glass flower vase of this sort really tests is nerve. Most people reach for three stems where one would do more work. Both sizes were drawn in 2017 and neither has been adjusted since, which for this studio counts as restraint. What the shape does, outright and with no sympathy at all, is take that option away.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2017
Vase Care Instructions

All glass vases in this collection are dishwasher safe for easy cleaning, with one exception: mercury glass vases should be hand-washed only. The silvered mercury finish is a delicate coating rather than a solid color, and dishwasher heat and detergent can dull or strip it over time.

For standard glass vases, just load it in with the rest of the dishes — no special care needed. For mercury glass pieces, wash gently with warm water and mild soap, and dry with a soft cloth rather than letting it air dry with water spots.

Rinse and dry after each use, especially if flower food or cut-stem residue was in the water, so nothing lingers and clouds the glass.
Flowers that Love this Vase

Quick Guide to Building a Floral Arrangement

  1. Pick your vase first
  2. Start with your anchor flower.
  3. Build in odd numbers.
  4. Add height, then fill.
  5. Greenery does the quiet work.
  6. Cut stems at an angle, underwater if you can.
  7. Step back before you decide it's done.
Canada wide shipping & returns

Shipping 

  • Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • Canada Wide Shipping: from coast to coast — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused hard good items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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Local pickup & delivery

Delivery: 

  • Delivered by hand across Toronto and the GTA. 
  • Next business day; same-day when you call the shop.
  • Local GTA delivery starts at $14
  • Call for a quote outside of the GTA

Pickup: Order online by 3pm and collect it the same day at:

702 Queen St. W.,
Toronto, ON M6J 1E7
437-777-5021

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What people are saying

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The Friday Stem — The Elon Vase

A customer in Vermont has bought one flower a week for eleven years, and we only know this because she wrote to ask whether we would ever make the short version in a second colour. In the same note she explained the routine: Friday morning, the market, one stem, whatever looks best, into the vase on the hall table where she sees it on the way out of the house. Eleven years of that is roughly five hundred and seventy flowers, which is more considered attention than most objects in anybody's home will ever receive. She said the limit was, for her, the entire point. If the vase held six stems she would buy six stems, would spend three minutes arranging them badly, and would stop noticing them by Sunday. One stem she has to actually choose. We have thought about that letter more than is strictly reasonable for a company that makes small glass objects, because it describes something we intended without quite being able to articulate: a constraint that improves the person using it. We did not make her more attentive and would never claim to have done so. The shape simply left her nowhere else at all to go.

How to Cut Flowers Like a Pro:

A (Mostly) Simple Guide to Cutting Your Flowers

So, you’re making an arrangement? Let’s ensure it lives long enough to impress someone—even if it's just you.

  1. Scrub the Scissors: Wash your shears first. Your flowers do not want a side of Dorito dust.
  2. Cut at 45°: Snip stems at an angle. It gives them a straw instead of making them chug from the bottle.
  3. Trim Underwater (Fancy Mode): Cut them submerged to block air bubbles. It’s extra, but they didn’t ask to suffocate.
  4. Ditch Submerged Leaves: Strip anything below the waterline. Unless you are actively going for a swamp aesthetic.
  5. Snip Again if Stale: If they sat out on the counter, trim them again. They need a fresh start (don’t we all?).
  6. Swap the Water: Change it and trim the stems every few days so they don't die immediately.

Voilà! You are now a domestic deity. Go take your Instagram photo before you forget to water them.

Pro Tip: The light does half the work.

Glass catches and bends light in a way ceramic can't. Set the arrangement somewhere it'll get some late afternoon sun, even for an hour, and the water and stems start doing something a solid vase never will.

Perfect Pairs for Any Shelf

One Flower Is Already An Arrangement

The glass vases at Chive come out of the same studio habit that produced everything else here: design the object once, correctly, then resist every opportunity to complicate it. Each one holds stems. None of them hides anything. A single sculpted stem holder and a tall narrow tube are closer relatives than they look, which is why the Flute Glass Modern Clear Vase sits beside this one. Both are built on the principle that one flower, given enough room and nothing to compete with, is an arrangement.

A Made Object First, A Vessel Second

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. On this piece the decision was that the container should be sculpted rather than turned, so the eye reads a made object first and a vessel second. Other pieces in the range settle the same question differently: some disappear entirely behind the flower, some mount on a wall, some hold a dozen stems at fixed intervals. None of it is styling. Each shape is the shortest route to one specific behaviour, and the route was walked before anything was made.

Never Once Bare By Wednesday

One stem deserves a good one, and a Blue White Columbine from our ceramic range never wilts by Wednesday. Keep the ceramic bloom in the short height through winter, swap to something freshly cut when the garden restarts, and the hall table is never once bare.

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Frequently asked questions

Why would you choose a vase like the Elon vase?

Because it takes the decision away from you, which sounds like a drawback and is not. A container that accepts six stems invites six mediocre ones. This accepts a single flower and therefore demands a good single flower, and the result on a hall table is more striking than a handful of supermarket filler could ever be. Constraint does all of the styling here. You supply the stem.

What single flowers look striking on their own in the Elon?

Zinnia is the standout, since the flat face reads well from across a room and the stem is rigid enough to stand exactly where you put it. Coneflower gives you height and a clean silhouette. Gomphrena and nigella both hold their shape for weeks on end. A single garden rose is the traditional answer and remains the correct one. Love-lies-bleeding trails and misbehaves beautifully.

How tall is the Elon vase and what space does it need?

Behind the Studio

The story behind the Chive astronaut vases

The story of Laika, Félicette, a solar eclipse in New York, and a space bar that ordered a hundred vases a month until it closed.

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