A saturated magenta, pink pushed toward violet, deepest in the hollows between the crystals and brightest at the faceted tips.

Grown, not cut. Isaac Monte dissolves five to seven minerals in boiling water in a large metal tank, suspends a glass form in the solution and lets the tank cool. Over the following weeks the minerals come out of the water and grow onto the glass. Nothing is glued and nothing is carved. The crystal is the object.

The color comes from which minerals went into the tank, and the texture from how fast the water gave them up. Where the surface is coarse and faceted the crystals grew slowly; where it runs fine and dense they grew fast.

About eight inches tall. The glass form the crystals grew onto is the interior, so it holds water and a fresh stem directly. The glass is fixed in place, not removable, and the crystal itself never touches water.

He sets the chemistry, the temperature and the timing. The tank decides the rest. Each Magenta mini vase is grown on its own, so the one you receive will differ from the photo in its crystals and the depth of its color.

It goes on the bookshelf, the vanity, the bedside with whatever is in season. A flower against it reads as flower against stone. For the collector of small things, the friend whose taste is precise, the person who would never buy this for themselves.