Orchid & Violet Butterfly in Flight
$75.00
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Orchid & Violet Butterfly in Flight
$75.00
Height: 5.7 in · 14.5 cm
Deep royal purples and velvety blacks command immediate attention, suggesting a creature that rules the silent corridors of a twilight garden. This butterfly carries a striking weight of presence, its sweeping tails and bold wing patterns evoking the frozen grace of a summer evening. Saturated textures catch the light with a quiet intensity, grounding the delicate form in a sense of deliberate artistry. There is a private pleasure in possessing a specimen that feels less like an ornament and more like a captured fragment of a wilder reality.
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The Craft
It starts as a glass tube. Heated until it softens, then blown into shape: some forms into a mould, the most complex ones shaped free-hand on the pipe. One piece at a time, in a single workshop in Poland. What comes out is silvered from the inside, lacquered, and left to cure before anyone picks up a brush.
The painting is freehand. Brush by brush, layer over layer, each colour left to dry before the next goes down. No transfers, no printing, no stencils standing in for a steady hand.
No two are identical. A line sits a fraction differently, a highlight catches the light its own way. Small things, but they are the difference between an object that was manufactured and one that was made.
Heirlooms
Ornaments are the only things we buy to unwrap again. Boxed up after the season, brought back out the next one, each one tied to the year it arrived. After a decade a collection stops being decoration and becomes a record of where the family has been.
Glass is what makes that possible. It does not warp or grow brittle with age. A piece boxed up this year will still be here in twenty, and usually ends up with someone who remembers where it came from.
Shipping
Every order ships directly from our workshop in Poland, individually wrapped and double-boxed for the journey.
Duties included. We prepay all import duties. Nothing is collected on delivery.
Delivery: 1–2 weeks. A few days for careful packing at our atelier, then 3–7 days in transit, fully tracked door to door.
Shipping — we ship with UPS or postal courier, depending on your country. Rates:
- Free on orders over $100
- $15 on orders under $100
Blubom Delivery Guarantee
Every piece is covered. We take responsibility for the whole journey, not just the part up to the courier. If an ornament arrives damaged, we send a replacement at no cost to you.
Arrived broken? Email us at hello@blubom.com within a week of delivery, with your order number and a photo. That is all we need to get a replacement moving.
One small thing: hold on to the box and the padding until your replacement is on its way. We sometimes need it for the carrier claim.
Returns
30 days to change your mind. If a piece is not right, email hello@blubom.com within 30 days of delivery and we will arrange the return. It needs to come back unused and in its original packaging.
Return shipping is on you, unless the item arrived damaged or we sent the wrong piece. In those cases we cover everything. Refunds go back to the original payment method once the return reaches us.
Personalized pieces are made to order and cannot be returned.
Catalog No.
2021-018