Strawberry Ornament Twelve TIFF gives out awards for

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The azalea form carries densely packed petals arranged around a small open center — the bloom shape common in autumn garden centers and almost entirely absent from interior walls

Who keeps the long view

As an architectural flower vase it works through proportion rather than ornament: a clean vertical line

Hang it at eye level

Strawberry Ornament Twelve TIFF gives out awards forA proper strawberry ornament should depict the June strawberry the warm, farm stand one that ruins you and not the February impostor, and ours takes a side. It is mouth blown glass, painted in the deep saturated red that grocery stores have never once managed, seeded by hand in fine gold dots, and crowned with green leaves right at the cap and loop. The color is layered on in coats, then sealed, so it holds that first bite red for good. Ruth will not