Fort Saint Elmo sits at the tip of Valletta, a sprawling network of fortifications with a long, difficult history. It is best remembered for the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. By the final assault, on 23 June, three knights - De Guaras, De Miranda and Colonel Mas - were too badly wounded to stand. They had themselves carried to the breach in chairs, swords in hand, and died fighting in the chapel.

Days earlier, in the same small chapel, the garrison had gathered by candlelight to write to the grand master, warning that the fort could not hold. It was the last ordinary light the defenders knew before the end. The installation returns that same chapel to candlelight: not as commemoration from a distance, but as the one condition, four hundred and fifty years on, that hasn't changed.

The result was part installation, part product design. A modular candleholder, built around the Maltese eight-pointed cross, was drawn in CAD and cut on a five-axis CNC machine from solid beech and black-core MDF, made with S.A.W., a local workshop the studio has returned to for precision joinery over the years. Assembly took a laborious set-up and after that, each evening, the candles were lit and put out by hand, from an old borrowed ladder during the design week.

Visitors fell quiet on entering, taking in the glow: light held in the same place, for the same reason, all these years later.