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Glass Vases

Test Tube Copper Glass Cutting Holder

$29.95
Sizes
Hand Blown Glass
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

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

Usually ready in 24 hours

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 Copper Tube is a copper propagation holder in name and colour only, and there is no copper in it anywhere. The finish is a warm metallic tone applied to the stand, chosen because it flatters root systems in a way that chrome does not, and calling it a copper tube vase is a description of what you see rather than what it is made of. We would rather say that plainly than let anybody assume otherwise. Two sizes scale honestly against each other: the large runs 3.75 inches across and 6.5 tall, the medium 2.8 by 4.5, keeping much the same proportion. Glass tubes lift free of the stand for rinsing. As a plant cutting holder it earns its keep in the weeks when a cutting is doing nothing visible, since watching roots travel downward is most of the reward. On a kitchen sill it works hardest.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2020
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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Is the copper real - The Copper Tube

We get one email about this piece more than any other, and it is always some version of the same question: is the copper real.

It is not. The stand is finished in a warm metallic tone that reads as copper and contains none of it, and we say so on the listing, and people still write in, which I take as a compliment to whoever chose the finish and a reminder that nobody reads listings.

What I have stopped doing is apologising for it. There was a period where the answer got long and defensive, full of words like inspired and evocative, and it satisfied nobody because everybody could hear the shuffling. The short answer works better. It is the colour, not the metal, and the colour was picked because roots look extraordinary against a warm tone and slightly clinical against a cold one.

Actual copper would also have been the wrong call for a different reason. Copper and standing water have a long complicated relationship, and a vessel where water sits for six weeks while something grows in it is not the place to explore it.

So: not real, entirely deliberate, and better this way for reasons unrelated to cost.

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

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The Same Logic, Applied To A Right Angle

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. This one takes that literally enough to admit its own name is a colour rather than a material. When the same logic gets applied to a right angle rather than a cylinder, the L Glass Vase is where the chain continues.

Built For The Root, Not The Bloom

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. The Copper Tube decided in favour of the root rather than the bloom: clear untinted tubes that come away from the stand entirely, held at a height where a developing root system sits at eye level instead of down in a jar on a sill. The glass is deliberately plain. All the character is in the stand. Every piece in the glass vases collection settles one question this way.

Consecutive, Not Complementary

A cutting rooted here has to go somewhere afterward, and a Liberte Pot with drainage is the next step rather than a matching accessory. Roots that developed in water need soil that lets water leave, which is precisely what an undrained decorative pot fails to do. Root it in glass, watch it happen, then move it across. The two objects are consecutive rather than complementary.

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