Collection: The Music of Light

In 1902, long before abstract art took center stage, painter Emily Noyes Vanderpoel published a manual called Color Problems. Color, she wrote, was "the music of light," and its harmonies deserved the same careful study as those of sound. Her answer was the color analysis: a ten-by-ten grid recording the proportions of color in objects both historic and everyday — antique rugs, a teacup and saucer, Egyptian mummy cloths, Japanese silk brocade.

She meant them as lessons for decorators, dressmakers, florists, and anyone else who worked with color. More than a century later, they look strikingly modern, and they've found their way onto candles, where a little light seems only fitting.