Dewberry Camellia

French country decor does not typically include dewberry — the specific deep purple-blue of ripe dewberries growing wild on the edges of Provence fields in late summer. The Dewberry Camellia is a handmade ceramic wall flower from the France Collection, kiln-fired in Toronto in a dewberry glaze — a deep, complex blue-purple that reads as ripe and botanical and unlike anything else in the collection. It is the France Collection piece that people stop in front of. The deep departure of a collection that appeared in French Vogue Chive interprets the French Vogue feature as an endorsement. The Dewberry Camellia is the France Collection's most unexpected piece — not because the camellia form is unexpected, but because dewberry sits outside the warm pink-and-blue palette that defines most of the collection. It is the deep blue-purple that appears in the south of France only in the wild fruit that grows in hedgerows and ditches, not in the cultivated garden plants. On a wall of France Collect