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This Candle Has A Newsprint Fragrance…

by admin on 06/23/2011 · 2 comments

If you love candles, check out this limited edition (only 1,000 produced) Times Of New York Candle ($65)- inspired by The New York Times publication and brought to life by the late artist/designer Tobias Wong.

With a clever wit and ingenious clarity, he honed in on the icons, obsessions and desires of contemporary culture and appropriated them in objects that are both resonant and beautiful. One of his last concepts was The New York Times candle. Within the current fascination with scents and, especially, experimental scents, Wong proposed producing a candle with the fragrance of newsprint inspired by the New York Times, an institution he greatly admired and with which he had a longstanding relationship.

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Anonymous 06/23/2011 at 1:13 PM

NYT ain’t got nothing on OS

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BGAS 06/23/2011 at 11:49 PM

Wow… symbolism anyone?

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