• Solid cast brass
  • Waitlist now open
  • Twelve objects, no more
The ALUXAN emblem.

The collection

Incense Holder

Waitlist open · Price at release

A single cast channel that holds a stick upright and gathers what falls from it.

Be first to hear when the Incense Holder is released, with its price. One message, nothing else.

Material
Solid brass
Dimensions
150 × 32 × 12 mm
Weight
310 g
Finish
Raw cast surface, unlacquered
Lead time
4–6 weeks

How it is made

Northeast Thailand

Most incense holders are an afterthought — a pressed disc of tin that arrives free with the sticks. This one is poured in solid brass and weighs more than the box it ships in.

The channel is cast, not machined, so its floor keeps the faint grain of the sand it was formed against. Ash collects there and is tipped out. Over a year the brass darkens unevenly, fastest where your fingers land.

01 02 03 04
I The mould

River sand fine enough to hold an edge is packed around a pattern, then the flask is split and the pattern withdrawn.

II The pour

Brass is brought to a little over a thousand degrees and poured in one continuous movement. Hesitation shows in the finished surface.

III The break

The mould is destroyed to release a single casting. Each one is made from sand that has never held this shape before.

IV The hand

Only what must be worked is worked. The cast surface keeps the grain of the sand it was formed against.

This object

Sand-cast in a single pour, then hand-filed at the mouth.

Lost-wax brass casting carried by village workshops on the Mun river, where the craft has passed through families for two hundred years.