Charcuterie Board Ornament

A hand-blown glass charcuterie board ornament puts the most documented food arrangement of the last decade onto the tree in careful miniature, every slice of cured meat and wedge of cheese placed with the kind of deliberate composition that charcuterie people will immediately inspect and silently approve. Chive painters assemble the board surface layer by layer — salami rounds, a brie triangle, three grapes, a sprig of rosemary — each element needing its own brush and color pass, more individual paint stages than almost any other design in the catalog. The completed piece suspends from a brass fitting at the board's edge, balanced so the whole spread faces outward toward the room. Multi-element compositions like this one test every technique the studio has refined across twenty-plus years of ornament production dating to 2004. TIFF programs whole exhibitions around the relationship between food and visual culture. This board would hold its own on that wall.