Cast by hand. Why we work in plaster.

Candles were the beginning, but the studio kept drifting toward a second material. Cast plaster, the kind made from gypsum, has the same honesty we wanted in the candles. It is humble, it takes a mould beautifully, and it holds a soft, chalk-matte surface that asks to be touched. So the homeware grew out of the same back room in Midrand, poured by the same hands.

Plaster does something stone and ceramic cannot. It carries colour all the way through rather than only on a glaze, so a chip shows the same tone underneath, and the finish stays quiet instead of shiny. We work in a small palette of plaster tones, ivory, cream, blush, dove grey, lilac, taupe, and charcoal, chosen to sit with the candles rather than shout over them. A trinket dish, a vessel, a tray; objects for keys and rings and the small daily clutter that a home gathers.

There is a gentleness to caring for it, too. Cast plaster is porous, so it is made for dry, decorative use rather than the dishwasher. A soft dry cloth keeps it clean, and a felt base or a coaster protects whatever it sits on. Treated kindly, a piece lasts for years and earns the faint marks of being used, which we think only makes it better.

If candlelight is the evening, plaster is the surface it rests on. Our homeware is cast and hand-finished in small batches, in the same tones and the same spirit as the candles, and the full shop holds both together.