Our company trades in fragrant home products and decorative accessories. Our focus is to
provide special blends of fragrant candles that reflect the life-style and history of the Keys,
the Caribbean, and trade routes of the world. We use a special blend of 100% food-grade
waxes and palm oil with cotton and paper wicks for a long -- clean burning candle.
We continue to search for fragrant products, containers, and decorative accessories that re-
flect the Key’s history and are of excellent functional design which will enhance the home.
Key West Trading Company appreciates your interest in our presentation of designer blends
of fragrant candles and our unique, but functional, decorative accessories.
Modern Contemporary
Fragrant Key West Lamp
Key West Lamp
3.5” D x 8.5” T, 16 oz., 100 hrs. approx. burn time
History and lore describe a Key West Lamp
as a faceted glass cylinder used for protect-
ing burning candles from the elements.
Most ranged from 3-6” in diameter and 4-
15” in height. Key West Lamps were
manufactured with cut glass designs that
create a diamond-like sparkle with many
facets of reflective light. Many of the Key
West Lamps of the 40’s and 50’s were made
in Cuba and brought to the US via ferries
that steamed between Havana and Key West.
During the turn of the century, Key West
became a haven for writers and artists such
as Hemingway, Audobon, and Williams who
made Key West their home. The artists and
writers cherished Key West Lamps as
designs in light.
Since trade with Cuba ended in the 50’s, Key
West Lamps have become collectibles and
are almost impossible to find. Key West Trading Company is pleased to offer Key West-
designed lamps made by glass artisans in Mexico that reflect the warmth of the lamps
used in the last half of the 20th century. To set these lamps apart, these 3.5 x 8.5”
cylinders are poured with fragrant candle wax here in the USA -- a jar candle that is not
a typical jar candle.
Enjoy candlelight with all the warmth, history, and beauty that is reflected through a Key
West