Graziani Candles

Graziani
Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

In 1805, under a writ from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Alberto Graziani was granted permission to import beeswax from India and bleach it for candle-making. Two centuries and seven generations later, the Graziani family is still making candles in the same Tuscan region, the knowledge passed from father to son so consistently that the company's own history reads like a family tree as much as a corporate one — Leone, then Alberto, then Gino, then a new Alberto, then Mario, each generation inheriting not just a business but a craft.

The factory has survived two world wars, a devastating fire in 1975 that destroyed the plant within months of being rebuilt on the same foundations, and a 2007 move to a new facility in Lorenzana that improved quality without abandoning the underlying technique. Their lacquered candles — glossy, mirror-finished, fully hand-dipped and hand-polished by artisans applying centuries-old colouring methods — remain entirely a manual process, the shine achieved through technique rather than any shortcut.

We carry Graziani because two hundred and twenty years of unbroken family knowledge is the kind of provenance that simply cannot be manufactured. Every candle carries that history, whether or not the person lighting it knows it's there.

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