Relik Launches 'Domestic Spirits' Candle Collection in Milan

Key facts

• Relik is a Milan-based design project founded in 2025 by Ludovica Forino and Matteo Maggi.
• The debut collection 'Domestic Spirits' launched on March 12 in Milan.
• The collection consists of five sculptural candles.
• Candles are handcrafted at Cereria Introna in Bari, a workshop active since 1840.
• Each candle represents a state of mind: impulse, excess, calm, dissolution.
• The design blends archaic sacredness with queer culture and post-digital imagery.
• The first spirit is inspired by Thai solar deities and Helios.
• The second spirit combines Scandinavian solstice rituals with Sicilian ceramic heads.
• The third spirit engages with Japanese animism (Tanuki, Yokai) and 1970s psychedelia.
• The fourth spirit merges gargoyles, Art Deco (A.M. Cassandre), and club culture (Leigh Bowery, drag).
• The fifth spirit explores nocturnal entities including Füssli's Nightmare, sphinx, and Kodama from Princess Mononoke.
• Relik describes the objects as a response to a society emptied of ritual and optimized.