Candle Store, Roma

CANDLE STORE is an art workshop, in Rome, where wax and iron turns into timeless design objects and furnishings. Each piece is unique, rigorously handmade through the use of ancient techniques. Functionality, beauty and practicality are the guidelines of our creativity. Nature, with its anthropomorphic forms, the shadows of the earth and the sensuality of vegetal shapes, is a constant source of inspiration, such as the geometries, the angular lines and the urban atmospheres of the etropolies. In our hands wax transfigures, assuming the appearance of wood, stone and metal. From time to time it allows us to draw on an iconographic repertoire of the most varied, ranging from the ancient tribal cultures to hypermodern, essential, almost abstract shapes. The care in the manufacture begins with the selection of raw materials: from the colors, that ensure the maximum brightness and shine, to the fragrances of the essential oils, that spread in the room a pleasant, never intrusive scent. The trasparent matter of wax has a tangible physicality, that states its existence through different processes. The light changes into vibrant soul: depending on the thickness and the carving, it evokes atmospheres that remind Chinese shadows, or becomes three-dimentional, redrawing borders and boundaries of the surrounding environment. Wax turns into light and light comes art. The simple gesture of lighting on one of our candles becomes a multisensory experience, through which ancestral feelings resurface.