Hearth No. 1
Candles · Cedar smoke · Dried tobacco
From $64
Jingdezhen · Small batch · Worldwide
For the hours
after dark.
Amber glass candles, reed diffusers, and ceramics thrown by hand. Made in small runs for rooms that are allowed to go quiet.
The workshop
We make a small number of things, slowly: a candle that behaves like a room, a diffuser that lasts a season, a vessel that is worth keeping after the wax is gone.
Everything is poured, fired, and packed in Jingdezhen. We work in batches of forty, cure each candle for seven days, and reject more glass than we would like. The objects that remain are the ones we would keep on our own shelves.
Four objects to begin with
The current pour
Raw materials for the evening edit, weighed on the studio bench.
The scent edit
Three compositions for late evening
Start with the note you want to notice last. These three are built around smoke, green shade, and cool stone — the smells of a room after the windows have been opened.
Hearth No. 1
$64Blood orange · Cedar smoke · Vetiver
Green Fig Diffuser
$68Fig leaf · Fig milk · Cedar
Celadon Vase
$96Jingdezhen stoneware · celadon glaze
Materials & making
Poured by hand,
fired in Jingdezhen
Our candles use a coconut–soy wax blend and cotton wicks, scented at 8% — high enough for the heart notes to read, low enough that the room stays a room. Each batch is poured in a small workshop and cured for seven days before it is labelled.
The ceramics come from a family studio in the hills outside the city, where the clay is local and the celadon recipe has been in use for three generations. Pieces are fired twice, at 1280°C, and sorted for soundness rather than sameness.
- Batch
- 40
- Firing
- 1280°C
- Cure
- 7 days
The ceramic studio, late afternoon. Clay from the surrounding hills.
Notes from customers
Kept, not merely bought
“The Hearth candle smells like the last hour of a dinner party — smoke, orange peel, and nothing sweet. I have bought three.”
“The vase arrived in more packaging than I expected, all of it paper. The celadon is greener in person, almost wet.”
“I bought the diffuser for a hallway with no window. Four months later it is still there, faintly, like a coat.”