Hammer Ornament Ten very different presence

very different presence

Our friends now enter the living room with a mix of awe and confusion

and they spent three weeks getting the running order exactly right and have never entirely stopped thinking about how the whole thing turned out

The frosting is a painted glaze applied in a single unbroken pass

and a wall that thickens on one side turns a sphere into a lump

Hammer Ornament Ten very different presenceThe best carpenter gifts acknowledge that the craft is ancient and the satisfaction of a clean strike has not changed in two million years, and Chive's Hammer Ornament makes that acknowledgment in hand blown glass. Head and handle form from separate pulls of molten glass, joined at the neck with the kind of precision a carpenter would approve of, which is exactly the standard this ornament is trying to meet. At roughly four inches long and under three