On a recent trip to one of Kitka’s favourite stores Atomic, we picked up a set of three Timo Sarpaneva Festivo Candle holders. Now if only I can get my hands on a collection of i-Glass decanters…

The Festivo Candleholder was designed in 1966 by Finnish designer Timo Sarpaneva for Iittala. We came across hundreds of these on our trip to Helsinki but oddly enough, they were pretty expensive considering the vast quantities many of the vintage stores had.

The Festivo Candleholders we created using the “charred wood technique”, which involves using wooden molds made from roughly hewn and carved alder wood. The wooden molds would become destroyed in the process and quite expensive to reproduce, so they eventually switched to metal molds.