La Maison Daum unveils Le Trésor Perdu candle by Thomas Fuchs

A pale flame rises from emerald crystal carved with botanical richness, the wax glowing softly against the deep green of the base. This is Le Trésor Perdu, the latest collaboration between La Maison Daum and Thomas Fuchs, a candle that performs its own quiet magic as firelight moves across its surface.

Fuchs, the Paris based decorator whose work sits at the intersection of sculpture and function, has designed a piece that demands contemplation. The crystal vessel holds hand sculpted relief work depicting foliage and organic forms, each element gaining dimension and warmth as candlelight catches the facets and curves. What appears one way in daylight transforms under flame: colours deepen, shadows lengthen, and the work seems almost to breathe.

Daum, the storied Lorraine crystal house founded in 1878, has long understood that glass is a medium of light as much as form. This collaboration with Fuchs extends that philosophy into the domestic moment, turning the simple act of lighting a candle into an experience of discovery. The pale wax within the emerald green crystal creates a luminous contrast, the glow suffusing through the stone with an amber warmth that shifts and evolves as the candle burns.

The piece belongs to the realm of contemporary art object as much as functional luxury. Fuchs has worked the crystal with the precision of a sculptor, his botanical vocabulary carved deep enough to cast shadows, delicate enough to let light penetrate. Each viewing angle offers something different: a leaf caught mid turn, a stem emerging from shadow, a curve that suggests rather than declares.

Le Trésor Perdu is available through La Maison Daum’s retail channels and can be commissioned through their atelier in Paris.

Imagery courtesy of La Maison Daum (@lamaisondaum).