'Gulzar' Pillar Candle Holder Set of 2 in Wood and Resin

Provenance

These pillar holders are made in wood and resin — the resin layer built over the turned wood form, giving the surface depth and translucency that plain printed wood alone does not achieve. This combination of materials comes from North Indian workshops that have extended beyond traditional printed-wood technique to incorporate resin finishes, producing surfaces that hold their colour differently as light changes across them.

Gulzar (گلزار) names the garden in full bloom in Persian and Urdu — from gul (flower, rose) and zar (place of abundance). In Persian poetry and Mughal garden design, the gulzar is not merely a garden but a garden at its most alive: flowering, fragrant, generously full, the space where beauty and companionship coincide. Emperor Babur measured his homesickness in the absence of gulzars; the Mughal dynasty built their chahar baghs as physical gulzars, the evening lamp maintained at the centre.

Disclaimer

• These holders are made in wood and resin. Minor variations in the resin surface depth and finish are natural features of the layered process.
• Minor surface imperfections are characteristic of handcrafted resin work and are not defects.