COLLAGE : CANDLE CONCIERGE

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Wednesday, 12th December
COLLAGE : CANDLE CONCIERGE

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There are few things that can make a house feel more like a home than a well-placed scent. The smell of baking, of oak burning in an open fire—and perhaps most intoxicating, a newly lit candle. You can bring a candle with you anywhere and almost instantly transform a room with its light. A traveler will light a candle or incense when they enter a new hotel. To cleanse. To make the space familiar. To impart a fresh scent and the aura of home in a foreign space. In the Berber culture, a candle is lit when a child is born. In South America, to blow out a lit candle means to summon a ghost. Candles signify a search for truth for the Greek God Diogenesis, rebirth on gravestones, life in Western religions, illumination in master paintings. They’re used globally—as a simple source of light in places where electricity isn’t an option. Wax and a wick, flint and twigs—keep a remote home lit through the night. Or as intricate and divinely strange as doll eye-faced Fornasetti. Candles are welcoming wherever we are.

Now that it’s winter time, we’re thinking about candles more than ever. As gifts, they can be quite impersonal. Or very warm. Oh, and everyone looks beautiful in candlelight. Regardless of where we are in the world, our own or a foreign destination, they bring us the comfort of our best senses.

~Ashley Simpson

December