Ligne Glass Modern Flower Vase

Regular price $21.85
Colors: Amber Grid
Shapes
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 Ligne vase is a lined glass vase made in three forms, and the surface work on it is the kind normally kept for pieces four times the size. Egg stands taller than it is wide. Oval does the reverse, wider across than it is high. Sphere is neither, carrying the same measurement in both directions. All three take the same drawn banding, which is why it also reads as a striped glass vase depending on which one is in front of you. Those lines sit in the glass wall rather than over it, so nothing on the surface can wear off a piece this small. Working at a shade over two inches means the spacing has nowhere to hide, and a hand that drifts by a fraction shows immediately. That is why there are three shapes and not six: each one had to earn its place against the other two before we would run it. Three forms, one surface decision, applied at a scale that punishes it.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2019
Dimension
  • Egg is 2.25 inches diameter, 4 inches tall. 
  • Oval is 3.5 inches diameter, 2.25 inches tall. 
  • Sphere is 3 inches diameter, 3 inches tall.
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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Three forms, one surface - The Ligne

There is a specific kind of meeting that happens here when the Ligne samples come off the rack, and it is not a meeting anybody scheduled. Someone carries a tray past the packing bench, someone else says hold on, and forty minutes later eleven of them are lined up on a windowsill in order of how much we like them, which changes twice. Dana keeps a notebook for this. She writes the ranking down, dates it, and then produces the previous ranking from four months earlier to demonstrate that we have all changed our minds again, which she enjoys more than she admits.

I have tried to work out why a piece this size does that to people who stay perfectly calm around large expensive objects. My best explanation is that the smaller a thing gets, the less room there is for anything to be concealed, so what you are looking at is only the decision, sitting there. You cannot be vague at two inches. Either the bands are evenly spaced or they are not, and everybody in the room can see which, including whoever ran it.

Nobody has ever asked for the tray to be taken away early. That is not true of most things we make.

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

The Same Restraint, Spread Across Five Shapes

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. The Ligne answers it at two inches, where an uneven line has nowhere to go and no size to hide behind. For the same restraint spread across five shapes instead of three, the Loft Vintage Bud Vases go next.

A Technique Built For Bigger Work, Shrunk Down

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. With the Ligne the decision was scale: take a banding technique normally reserved for larger work and hold it to something you can close a hand around. Three forms, one surface, no allowance anywhere for a wandering line. It suits a sill, a stack of books, the corner of a desk. The rest of the glass vases collection is built the same way, one decision at a time.

The Thing That Changes Over An Evening

Stand the Foxglove Shido Candle at the end of the Ligne row and the group stops being three variations on a single idea. Glass wants something matte beside it, the way a shiny object needs a dull one to look shiny against. The candle is also the only thing in the arrangement that changes over the course of an evening.



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