Flower

The flower: a freehand with a flared, petal-like heel

The flower as a Danish freehand outline, and Asikyan 360/23 — plateau rim, flared heel, Cumberland stem.

Where it comes from

Flower is a freehand nickname from the Danish wave of the 1960s and 1970s, when Preben Holm and others let the plateau stay wild and flared the heel like a blossom. It is not a factory Group. It is a reading of a block that already looks like a bloom — rim open, heel spread. The idea travelled with freehand pipes, not with Saint-Claude stencils.

Asikyan Flower 360/23, Smooth
Flower 360/23 · Smooth

The specification

There is no fixed chamber chart. What defines the flower is the outline: a plateau or live rim, a heel that flares, a stem that follows the gesture. 360/23 is the flower in this cabinet: smooth, Cumberland stem, stamped Asikyan on the shank, 2023 archive. No millimetres on the plate. The drilling is still an engineer’s hole; the flare is the sculpture.

Next to the lattice freehands

496/26 and 481/25 are double-wall cages. 360/23 is a single-wall flower. Same freehand permission, different drawing. If you want the blossom rather than the lattice, this is the serial to name.

From the cabinet

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