Dinner Candles

Our dinner and pillar candles set the rhythm of an evening, from the first lit taper at the start of dinner to the slow-burning pillar on a side table hours later. Made from clean-burning waxes and unscented to keep the dining experience centred on the food, each shape is cut to sit steady in its holder and drip minimally across a tablecloth.
  • Single Dinner Candle Single Dinner Candle
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    16 Colour options
  • Heal's Fluted Dinner Candles Set of 12 Heal's Fluted Dinner Candles Set of 12
  • Heal's Tapered Dinner Candles Set of 12 Heal's Tapered Dinner Candles Set of 12
  • Pattern Dinner Candles Set of 4 Pattern Dinner Candles Set of 4 Reds and Bordeaux
  • LED Smooth Tapered Dinner Candles LED Smooth Tapered Dinner Candles Ivory
    3 Colour options
  • Asparagus Dining Candles Asparagus Dining Candles
  • Cherry Tomato Dining Candles Cherry Tomato Dining Candles

    A 25cm dinner candle burns for roughly six to eight hours when lit in a draft-free room, enough for one generous dinner party or two shorter evenings. Keeping the wick trimmed to 5mm and the candle away from air currents extends the burn and prevents the uneven drip that shortens a taper's usable life.

    Unscented dinner candles are the considered choice for the table: a fragrance on the wick competes with food aromatics and can overwhelm wine, so the classic dining candle is deliberately neutral. Save scented pillar candles for side tables and mantels, where the fragrance has room to breathe without interfering with the meal.

    A dinner candle is a tall, slim taper usually 20 to 30cm in height, designed to sit in a single-stem holder at each place or centrepiece. A pillar candle is self-supporting, sitting on a broad base without a holder and burning down through its diameter for 20 to 40 hours, making it the longer-format option for mantels and side tables.

    Well-made coloured candles use dye dispersed evenly through the wax, which melts without releasing pigment onto the tablecloth below. Problems arise with cheaper dipped candles where the colour sits as a surface layer, so when shopping, look for candles marked 'solid-dyed' or 'coloured through' for linen-safe confidence.

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      Dinner With The Designers 2015
      Kicking off Heal’s London Design Festival in style, last night saw the great and the good of the design world raise a toast as part of our ‘Dinner with the Designers’ event. Transforming our Tottenham Court Road showroom into a banqueting hall fit for a feast, the evening brought together a host of internationally renowned designers including Sir Kenneth Grange, Gareth Neal, Matthew Hilton and Sebastian Cox to celebrate the best in British design. With a week of events lined up, why not join us for our LDF party where you will find three floors of music, drinks and design plus a host of exclusive workshops. "Heal’s has been trading for over 205 years so we are one of the longest-standing design companies in the country, not just London! That’s why it’s important that during the London Design Festival we bring together the best designers and journalists for a very relaxed evening in our wonderful flagship store – the ‘home’ of good design and well-made, modern furniture. It illustrates so many of our brand values: Championing young designers, being house proud, being innovative – and, of course, offering good design, well made." Carmel Allen, Creative Director at Heal's. Katrina Burroughs, Sebastian Cox and Hamish Mansbridge David Steiner and Sir Kenneth Grange Rob Scarlett Barbara Chandler, Sarah Kay and David Nicholls Anthony Dickens, Sebastian Cox and Melissa Muslin (Heal's Lighting Buyer) Sir Kenneth Grange Will Hobhouse (Heal's Chairman) and Lucy Gough Will Hobhouse (Heal's Chairman) and Suzanne Imre Carmel Allen (Heal's Creative Director)
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      London Design Festival: Dinner With The Designers
      As part of our London Design Festival 2016 celebrations, we threw a feast of designer proportions bringing together Heal's designers past and present for a unique dining experience within our flagship store. Design may be a global language but it's not often that you find some of the world's best known designers, alongside emerging talent, all in one room. Held within Heal's Tottenham Court Road store, our annual London Design Festival Dinner with the Designers event gives the designers, makers and facilitators behind our favourite pieces the chance to get together and celebrate another year of innovation. Following a champagne reception amongst our new Designer Collections, guests were led to an impeccably laid grand dining table featuring glassware from LSA and a rainbow of Series 7 Chairs courtesy of Fritz Hansen. Amongst the guests were a number of internationally renowned designers including Anthony Dickens, Cressida Bell, Gareth Neal, Matthew Hilton, Sebastian Cox, Rob Scarlett and Sarah Kay plus upcoming talent in the form of our Heal's Discovers finalists Katy Goutefangea of Ola Studio, Tim Summers and Will Baugh. What's on What's on Back to top
    • Dinner With The Designers 2019
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      Dinner With The Designers 2019
      Kicking off London Design Festival 2019 in epic proportions, the 7th annual Dinner with the Designers saw industry behemoths wined and dined at the Heal’s flagship store. For one night only, the Tottenham Court Road showroom was transformed to celebrate the best in British design. The event saw a host of internationally renowned designers including Tom Raffield, Lucy Kurrein, Matthew Hilton and Magnus Long gather under one roof. Who Eighty specially selected journalists and influencers from the interiors and art world rubbed shoulders with Heal’s designers, past and present, to celebrate a year of innovation. Dinner with the Designers presents the rare opportunity to gather so many of the world’s best-known designers and emerging talents in one room. Furthermore, artists featured in the Heal’s x Slade collaboration were also on hand to answer questions about their artwork. What First, guests were greeted with a champagne reception and the chance to view the Heal’s x Slade installation after hours. Secondly, seated on Philippe Starck’s iconic Ghost Chairs, they were treated to a four course meal by Milli Taylor. The impeccably laid table was adorned with bouquets from Highgate Flowers that were specially designed to complement the surrounding art. Finally, entertainment was provided in the form of live music from jazz trio The Night & Day Collective. When Unfortunately London Design Festival is now over until next year. For 2019, Dinner with the Designers accompanied our Heal’s x Slade exhibition. Set in the entrance of our London store, the installation exhibited work by Slade School of Fine Art graduates. The installation featured paintings, sculpture and even the columns at the front of the Tottenham Court Road store were dressed in fabric designed by Boon & Baum. Find out more information about the featured artists here.