Visiting a Christmas market with my mother I made another find. A local business, RöRiNTERiöR (Facebook link), makes candleholders and other things from copper pipes. The pipes have a lovely raw, mottled surface. Design: Johanna Alamattila, design and production: Nils-Erik Keikkala.
My candleholder:
Equipped with candles:
The painting in the background is made in 1901, by my grandfathers mother. I have three of her very beautiful watercolour paintings.
An example of one of the larger candleholder, which makes me want to get somewhere permanent to live soon, with laaarge windows with room for one of these (the following images from the Facebook page, with permission):
Image with permission
And last but not least, one of the small, peculiar candleholders that first caught my eye:
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