Red & Pearl Two-Tone Thin Taper Candles | Set of 12

Apparently splitting a candle into two colors is enough to give it an entire personality.

British Colour Standard pairs deep Guardsman Red with soft Pearl in these slender hand-dipped tapers, creating a graphic little color block that makes an ordinary candleholder considerably more interesting. They're thin enough for birthday cakes but sophisticated enough to scatter down a dinner table, stick into mismatched holders, or light simply because dinner involved plates and that feels like sufficient effort. Each candle burns for around three hours, so you can use a few at a time or deploy all twelve when restraint has clearly stopped being relevant. Small candles, excellent colors, surprisingly large decorative consequences.

The Details

• Set of 12 two-tone thin taper candles
• British Colour Standard Guardsman Red & Pearl
• Deep red and soft pearl color-block design
• Individually hand-dipped
• Fair Trade made in Indonesia
• 25 cm / approx. 9.8" tall
• Slim 6 mm / approx. 0.24" diameter
• Approx. 2.5–3 hour burn time per candle
• Tall, clean-burning flame
• Food-safe for use on cakes
• 100% vegetable-origin stearin wax
• Pure cotton, lead- and metal-free wick
• Ecological color dyes
• Paraffin-free
• No animal-derived ingredients
• Packaged in a recyclable kraft matchbox-style box
• Handmade construction means slight variations are part of their character

About the Brand:  Britsh Colour Standard

British Colour Standard has built an entire design world around the radical proposition that everyday objects don't have to be visually apologetic. It started when founders Jackie Piper and Victoria Whitbread discovered an original 1930s British Colour Standard dictionary tucked away in an Oxfam shop and decided its wonderfully specific archive of historic colors deserved another life. Today, those rediscovered shades appear across candles, tableware, textiles, and objects for the home, with an emphasis on thoughtful materials, Fair Trade craftsmanship, and responsible production. It's part design archive, part color obsession, and a pretty convincing argument that progress occasionally looks like finding something old and realizing we shouldn't have forgotten it.