Monolith Match Holder + Striker

Matches have spent an unnecessarily long time living in ugly little boxes.

Dune Brooklyn’s Monolith gives them considerably better accommodations. Sculpted entirely by hand from raw clay, each holder takes its shape from the mesas and monoliths of the desert, reduced to a size that makes considerably more sense on a coffee table. Fill the opening with strike-anywhere matches and the textured clay surface becomes the striker, no little abrasive strip hidden on the back, because essentially the entire object is willing to participate. Left empty, it looks more like a tiny piece of sculpture than something designed primarily to help you set other things on fire. Each one is formed by hand in Brooklyn, so variations in shape, surface, and texture are inevitable.

The Details

• Hand-sculpted match holder + striker
• Designed for strike-anywhere matches
• Entire textured clay surface can be used for striking
• Inspired by desert mesas + monolith formations
• Made from raw clay
• Available in Burnt Sienna + Cream
• Each piece varies slightly in shape, texture + finish
• Handmade in Brooklyn, New York
• Made in the USA
• Matches not included
  

About the Brand:  Dune Brooklyn

Dune Brooklyn seems interested in the things sitting around your house that nobody thought were worth designing yet. The Brooklyn studio makes small-batch ceramic objects for everyday rituals: candleholders, match strikers, dishes, and other pieces that live somewhere between useful tool and tiny sculpture. The approach is deliberately tactile and imperfect, with raw materials, organic shapes, and evidence of the hand left visible rather than polished out of existence. A match holder could obviously just be a container with matches in it. Dune Brooklyn would apparently prefer it resemble a geological formation and make striking the match part of the experience. This is probably unnecessary. It is also exactly why the object is worth having.