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Richard Lindvall’s interior for a restaurant in Stockholm uses copper for a fireplace hood

A Passion for Fire

As citizens of the 21st century, we are entranced by the achievements of our civilisation and the technical possibilities they offer. We appreciate top-quality industrial products as well as the artefacts created by manual craftsmanship. We surround ourselves with design and are inspired by its perfection in terms of function and appearance.

However, parallel to this public side of our life and lifestyle is another element, one that is shaped by age-old desires, anxieties and preferences. In these regions of our human nature, fire takes a central position, representing warmth, protection, light, community and culture.

It is therefore no surprise that we always wish to integrate living fire into our lives, even if we have to domesticate its intrinsic properties for this purpose. The fireplace may be subject to the same approach and treatment as other objects within the home, but at the same time, the powerful appeal it has on us operates at a higher level. Accordingly, our lead article, ‘Hearth and Home: Why Architects Are Warming Once Again to the Age-old Hearth’, places our love of the open fire in a cultural and interior-design context.

Contents in brief:

Architonic Photo Tours: Kortrijk 2014 and Orgatec 2014
Hearth and Home: Why Architects Are Warming Once Again to the Age-old Hearth
Further Articles from Architonic’s ‘News & Trends’
Inspiring Search Results N° 35: Wood-burning Stoves
Inspiring Spaces N° 27: Living Areas
Architecture and Design Projects on Architonic

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Architonic Photo Tours: Kortrijk 2014

Architonic Disco Kortrijk 

 

Part 1: Mattiazzi, Artek, Rizz, Moroso, Zanotta, edra, Flos, Jori, Sky-Frame, Modular, Nyta, Jacco Maris, ercol, DURAVIT, Gggenau, Delightfull, Focus, Capo d'Opera 

 

Part 2: Cappellini, Occhio, Alias, FSB, Tacchini, Capdell, Geberit, Dornbracht, Alape, Catellani & Smith, Trizo21, Objekten, Ghyczy, TOG, Bette, Fantoni, Eden Design, Porcelanosa, CEADESIGN

 

Part 3: Kristalia, Perletta Carpets, Ginger & Jagger, Dauphin, Ideal Standard, rform, NotOnlyWhite, Willisau Switzerland, &TRADITION, Fritz Hansen, Izf, Dark at night, Carpet Sign, Utopia and Utility, VOLA, Brunner, Reflect+, Wildspirit, tossB, MA, Gira, BULO, Menu, Dekton, Cosentino, Bolon, LAGO 

 

Part 4: Axor, MDF Italia, BD Barcelona, Driade, &TRADITION, Pedrali, Prostoria, DuPont Corian, Label, Durlet, Piure, Quodes, Leolux, Giorgetti, Zeitraum, Zanotta, Jan Kath, FOUNDED, Vincent Sheppard 

 

Part 5: bulthaup, cassecroute, TRADEWINDS, Mosa, KELLER, NTGRATE, Alphenberg, ARKAIA, Kinnasand, Kvadrat, Molteni & C, Dada, Kartell, Unopiù, LEMA, COR, Wever & Ducré, SieMatic, Biegert & Funk, Colect, BULO, Bocci

 

Architonic Photo Tours: Orgatec 2014

Architonic Disco King Georg Cologne

 

Part 1: brühl, Andreu World, De Vorm, Segis, Flötotto, lapalma, Cascando, Bolon, extremis, Fendi Casa, Muuto, Softline, Prostoria, ENEA, de Sede, Hay 

 

Part 2: Lammhults, Walter Knoll, Fritz Hansen, GUBI, Fantoni, Casala, Giulio Marelli, Carpet Concept, Artemide, ERSA, Poltrona Frau, De Zetel 

 

Part 3: Rossin, Inno, COR, HUSSL, Loook Industries, Scab Design, RENZ, Wilde + Spieth, Maxdesign, Rexite, Karl Andersson, BuzziSpace, Plycollection, KriskaDECOR, + HALLE, adeco

 

Part 4: Stouby, Elmo Leather, Isku, TON, Gallotti&Radice, Lamm, Holmris Office, Glimakra of Sweden, Systemtronic, Bedont, D-TEC, ONGO, Götessons, Wilkhahn, Karboxx, Inclass, System 180, Officeline, Okamura, Wagner, Slalom, Sitag, Phoneon, Akustik und raum, molo, Sitland Spa, LEUWICO, Forma 5, Famo, Martex, TECNO, Four Design, Klöber, Unifor 

 

Part 5: Vitra, Engelbrechts, SA Möbler, werner works, STUA, Blå Station, ZERO, Kvadrat, HOWE, Sellex, ACTIU, Thonet, Tobias Grau, ophelis, Pedrali, Haworth

 

Part 6: Mobles 114, Interface, Abstracta, Fora Form, ALEA, rosconi, Naber, XAL, Koleksiyon, MDD, VS, Mobica, Resol-Barcelona Dd, Nurus, Sedus Stoll, Brunner, giroflex, Hund Büromöbel, H. Waldmann, Dauphin

 

Part 7: Ragnars, TABISSO, Dauphin, Assmann Büromöbel, SB Seating, ABV, Senator, Strähle, Hey-Sign, Anker, EVOline, KOMTECH, bordbar, Arthur Holm, Caimi Brevetti, LUCTRA, objectflor, jankurtz, Lintex, Nimbus, Rosso, Lily Latifi, Bsweden, Randers+Radius, Wiesner-Hager, Interstuhl, König+Neurath, Kokuyo, DVO, PALMBERG, aeris, MOVIS

 

Part 8:  rohi, Moroso, S+ Systemmöbel, LEMA, Zeitraum, Montis, Kristalia, Kvadrat, danskina, Licht im Raum, Kinnasand, Montana Møbler, Secto Design, Arper, Linteloo, Pastoe, Carpet Sign, Palau, Swedese, Pilat & Pilat, Andreu World, acousticpearls, Buschfeld Design, Arco, Bolon, spectrum meubelen, FREIFRAU, LUCEPLAN, Gelderland, Kasthall, Linteloo, Magis, Agape, Trizo21, Aqua Creations

 

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Hearth and Home: Why Architects Are Warming Once Again to the Age-old Hearth

Fireplaces were once essential: from prehistoric times to the 19th-century, a home’s hearth provided light, heat and a means with which to cook. Today, you might think they were superfluous, obsolete in this age of centrally heated buildings. Yet our desire for fireplaces has never been entirely extinguished. Ironically, if they were once primarily functional, they’re now widely considered an unnecessary yet romantic luxury. (Text by Dominic Lutyens)

The curvilinear silhouette and natural materials of this fireplace — made of porcelain, plaster, basalt and limestone — play a key role in Jouin Manku’s interior for the lounge of Munich’s Bayerische Hof hotel

As a focal point in homes, hotels and even ultramodern offices, they appeal on several levels. Arguably, they’re an atavistic throwback to the original fireplaces: fire pits dug into the centre of caves or huts. By the Middle Ages, these had migrated to a room’s stone walls. Just as people back then huddled around fireplaces to tell stories or have always hung out together around campfires, many architects today view fireplaces as social hubs.

No doubt fuelling their interest in them is our perennial attraction to the spectacular, overblown fireplaces of mid-century interiors, like those seen in the lairs of Bond movie villains. Remember the monumental steel fireplace in Auric Goldfinger’s wood-panelled Rumpus Room, reminiscent of a John Lautner-designed interior? For many architects now, the allure of fireplaces lies in their theatrical, sculptural qualities, in their ability to provide a dramatic focal point.
 

A more urban spin on the fireplace can be found in this breakout space at Giant Pixel’s office. The fireplace has a 60s-retro vibe that complements the office’s mid-century furniture and industrial-chic interior; photo: Jasper Sanidad

One example of this today is a fireplace enclosed within a primitivist, chimney-like structure designed for a kindergarten in Trondheim, Norway. Inspired by the country’s tradition of turf huts and log cabins, it’s made of recycled wood, stands on a concrete base and has an opening at the top. ‘Together with standard playground facilities, we wished to combine a space for fire, storytelling and playing,’ say its architects, Marit Justine Haugen and Dan Zohar of Oslo-based practice Haugen Zohar.

Richard Lindvall’s interior for a restaurant in Stockholm uses copper for a fireplace hood, given that its rich hue evokes the warmth and colour of fire. Copper is also used for the tops of tables, radiators and exposed electrical pipes and plumbing

At Snøhetta’s glass-fronted Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, which is open to the public, Focus’s suspended (and thus space-saving) Gyrofocus fireplace looks similarly primitive. Perched on serpentine wooden benches and warmed by the fireplace – which produces up to 6 kW of heat – visitors can observe the reindeer herds roaming the surrounding, almost lunar landscape of the nearby Dovrefjell National Park. The organic shape of the fireplace underlines the pavilion’s connection with its natural location.

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Further Articles from Architonic’s ‘News & Trends’

Work-life Balance: Pedrali’s Furniture Brings a Sense of Home Comfort to the Office

At this year’s Orgatec, Italian firm Pedrali added to its collection of furniture designed in response to the evolving requirements of the contemporary contract markets, with a particular focus on the shift towards workplaces that aim to emulate the comfort and informality of the home...

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Boffi: Celebrating Eighty Years of Emotional Solutions

On a family holiday to Lake Garda as a teenager I discovered a design store that seemed to house all the contemporary design I had only ever seen before in books. The shop owner took to my enthusiasm and gave me a bag full of books on Italian design, providing me with a great snapshot of the key design movements and brands that have shaped Italy’s design culture...

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A Glass Act: Fabbian's Architectural Adventure

To celebrate the launch of its innovative new glass product Laminis, Fabbian was inspired to photograph it within the subterranean stone quarry of Cava Acque in the Berici Hills near Grancona, in the province of Vicenza...

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Zumtobel and Fraunhofer Institute Study Brings User Preferences to Light

With a global user study on perceived lighting quality in offices, which the Austrian luminaire manufacturer Zumtobel is conducting together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart, the company is making an important contribution to basic research...

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Inspiring Search Results N° 35: 

Wood-burning Stoves

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Inspiring Spaces N° 27:

Living Areas

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Photographer: John Gollings & Andrew Chung

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