Selenite Crystal Tower - 40cm Lavender The host is the same

The host is the same hard-wearing quartz as the rest of the family

Reached for at thresholds

and in rooms held in quiet

Ananta is the Mysore workshop's blended sandalwood - Santalum album heartwood ground fine and bound with halmaddi resin from Ailanthus malabarica

Honest naming: most solid black onyx is colour-stabilised chalcedony

Selenite Crystal Tower - 40cm Lavender The host is the sameA selenite tower a standing pillar of translucent white satin spar gypsum, the satin sheen running its full height, glowing where the light reaches it. The larger sizes stand on a low illuminated base. From Morocco. Selenite is gypsum hydrated calcium sulfate, Mohs 2, soft enough to mark with a fingernail. The tower is cut from satin spar, whose fine parallel fibres carry a chatoyant sheen that travels up the stone as the light moves. Translucent, it