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Well, the thing about candles and more specifically, designer candles is that they sometimes come off as an afterthought – the kind of product pushed by the marketing department after a fragrance it is inspired by takes flight and flies off shelves. Or, a piece of scented decor that just happens to burn nicely, scent beautifully, and looks nice. Nothing wrong with that because sometimes, they are pleasingly simple in concept in our otherwise already busy lives.
Ginori 1735 however, took 287 years to launch a set of candles. Let us firstly, however, take you back to the brand’s origins: its obsession with beauty. More specifically, however, would be founder Marquis Carlo Andrea Ginori’s obsession with how anything the Florentine Maison produces could be as achingly beautiful as it is timeless or as functional as it is elegant. The proof of this commitment and passion towards luxury that lasts can be found on the e-commerce site 1stdibs.
Would you like to purchase a 1900s vase with an Italian Renaissance styled painting with serpent handles? That’ll set you back a cool USD$9,500. Do you have an appetite to put your food on mid-18th century Flemish-painted plates? Eight of them come in a set and cost USD$9,245. Lest however if we forget about the point of this story, let’s talk Ginori 1735 and their candles
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Under the hands of designer Luca Nichetto, each of Ginori 1735 candles pay tribute to the life of Caterina de’ Medic, an Italian noblewoman. If you attempt to Google her as we did, her biographies or “about hers” aren’t pleasant but the candles more certainly are. Each of the porcelain vessels — of which are fired by the Manufacture and take on the look of faces, sculptures, and graphic art – are used for the first time to hold the flame of scented candles.
With each purchase (prices start at SGD$131 for a refill to SGD$1,020 for a large vessel), you’re technically buying a porcelain sculpture that will appreciate in value. A piece of ceramic that has been shaped the same way for 287 years and marvelously old-world in its make and charm: candles that scent your house like a place of sensual pleasure and then make it look like one.
What then do the Ginori 1735 candles as you might ask? Three of them — fresh and floral Purple Hill, spicy Black Stone, and citrusy Black Stone — are what we call people-pleasers. They’re familiar to anyone who is already keen on candles, easy to appreciate for first-timers and most importantly, we have to note, are developed by Jean Niel who is the oldest perfume house in France. The numbers don’t lie: it was founded in 1779 in the mecca of perfume production, Grasse.
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