Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow – The Botan Aria

Botan. The king of flowers. The peony — the East Asian flower of wealth, honour and confident beauty — woven here at scale across a luminous champagne ground.

The silk is luminous champagne-gold, with a subtle hishi diamond underweave. Across the field, large-scale botan peonies unfurl in vivid vermilion-red and deep green, their scrolling karakusa arabesque stems sweeping across the surface with the confidence of calligraphy. Flowing wave-curve bands in tone-on-tone gold add movement between the blooms. The vermilion gives the composition its voice. The gold gives it its ground.

A pillow for charcoal sofas, cream daybeds, rooms with warm-toned ceramics — quiet beauty for ordinary moments, gathered around a shared table.

The face carries the peony composition. The reverse is finished in the obi's original champagne satin — soft, luminous, perfectly silent. Envelope pocket closure. No metal touches the visible silk.

Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, reimagined for daily life.

Each piece arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam.

Material: Japanese ceremonial silk, Nishijin fukuro obi with botan peony in karakusa scrollwork
Dimensions: Available in 50 × 31 cm and 36 × 31 cm
Construction: Envelope pocket closure, champagne satin reverse
Care: Dry clean or spot clean.
Origin: Japanese ceremonial silk, designed and finished at the Renaras atelier, Netherlands.

One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.