In Aéras Massage Candle

Candle
In Aéras · 2023

For the launch of its new reference, In Aéras, a lifestyle and experimental skincare brand Made in Sardinia, trusts the architectural design of the Palomba Serafini studio, celebrating through this collaboration the union between wellness and design. This is a search between ancient raw materials, form and natural matter, a return to the mother island, Sardinia, to create an object whose use conveys a profound and ritualistic experience.
Conceived by Roberto Palomba and Ludovica Serafini as an artefact with pure and ancestral forms, as if it could have been found next to a Nuragic civilization excavation, the candle is contained in a terracotta vase worked exclusively from waste clays which are thus reused to support the circularity of materials and worked by hand to guarantee maximum strength to the shapes of these objects. The skilled hands of Walter Usai, fifth generation ceramist of a characteristic art of the island, meet the intention of the form conceived by Palomba Serafini, in a dialogue of unique possibilities where the sacredness of the object is enhanced by the purity of the design and results in a ritual of lighting the fire, waiting for the wax to melt, spreading the scent it carries in a harsh nature that welcomes, like that of the island. And then slowly leaning the candle so that wax can touch the skin and soak in it. Like a gesture of intimate care, a gesture as pure as love.
The In Aéras massage candle represents the Ancient Herbal Rituals from Sardinia for Contemporary Care, condensing the virtues of deep nourishment with the powerful olfactory notes of wild and uncontaminated nature, opening the dance of a new contemporary ritual. A precious blend of butters, waxes, and essential oils from the island's indigenous plants, such as Thyme, Lavender and Myrtle, which have always been used for care and well-being on the island, is formulated to be heated by main element: fire. Once melted, the blend is ready to be caressed into our skin and senses in an ancestral and erotic act of care, an olfactory and tactile, resulting in an intimate and sensual journey.
“I was born in Sardinia in the 60s. The TV was black and white. There were no social media networks or cell phones. Nature still spoke to us through the millenary stones that breathed that scented wind of daffodils and myrtle through the fissures dug by the force of the elements. The terrain died and was reborn together with the seasons. Every moment was led by nature."
"Fragments of memories: the smell of wet earth in the first heavy rains at the end of August; the grass that grew in the following days; the September air, clear and cruel, reminded us of the end of the summer. I could go on and on..."
"Sardinia, its forms, its craftsmanship, the people, whose hands have the eager to create ink on the wheel and the women who knead white sweets with sugary icing. Everything mixes in my head, in my memories, in the emotion of a sunset inflamed with red and orange. For In Aéras, I dedicated four ritual altars celebrating our nature and its elements. Four symbolic moments of ancient, pagan, hidden and eternal magic. In the hands of the craftsman using pure strength to mold them perfect in clay. On them, like a Phoenician lantern, a candle that contains a magical oil mixed with enchanted waxes and butters.”