Rise + Shine Candle Holder
Rise + Shine
Some objects take themselves seriously. Rise + Shine doesn't. Squeeze the rubber bulb and the candle rises; twist the release knob and it sinks back into its aluminium cylinder. It's a height-adjustable candleholder that's cheerfully, unmistakably suggestive — a joke it makes with a completely straight face. Behind the wink is real mechanical craft: inspired by a set of idiosyncratic 19th-century candleholders at the Barnes Foundation, and made in a tiny local batch in Brooklyn for Paraphernalia: Desire during NYCxDesign 2025. Sometimes you just have to surrender to the irony of the simple.
Details
- Mechanism: squeeze the bulb to raise · twist the knob to lower
- Material: aluminium + rubber bulb
- Made: small local batch · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
- Origin: created for Paraphernalia: Desire, NYCxDesign 2025
- Only 3 units available
The designer — Dan McMahon (Brooklyn, NY) Dan McMahon is a Brooklyn-born, London-trained designer (Camberwell College of Arts). He designs with his hands first materials and fabrication lead, and the ideas arrive through research, experimentation and prototyping.
Curated by Poesía
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