This terracotta chimney gives you the warmth of a fireplace in a small, sustainable package

Most fireplaces in older apartments have been decommissioned because of how much of a health hazard they are. However, it’s no secret that fire is one of the most effective ways to generate heat, whether it’s for cooking food or for keeping you warm. While the chances of you having a working fireplace in your home are near zero, the folks at NextNova have designed the next best thing – a terracotta heater that uses a unique airflow pattern to create a tower of fire that heats your home while also optionally distributing a fragrance of your choice.

Designer: NextNova

The Tornado combines the charm of a fireplace with the safety of, say, a scented candle. The terracotta-based heater relies on airflow, along with the thermal properties of baked clay to generate radiating heat for both the indoors as well as the outdoors. On the inside, it burns bioethanol using ceramic wool as a substrate, generating heat without any smoke, ash, harmful chemicals, or bad odors. This means you can use the Tornado inside your home without worrying about triggering the fire alarm!

The Tornado comes from the same folks that designed the Egloo, which we dubbed “the world’s most affordable thermostat” back in 2017. Significantly larger than the Egloo, it stands at 17 inches tall, with an internal chamber that creates a large fire vortex that generates much more heat than you would get from the Egloo. In fact, the makers claim it outputs 7000 BTU (British Thermal Units) of heat, allowing it to do the job of a miniature campfire in your room, heating things up without burning any electricity!

The Tornado gets its name from the uniquely tall flame it creates. Strategically placed openings in the sides of the vertical chamber channel air in to amplify the fire, creating a wind vortex that lifts the flame up to 5x higher than usual. This not only increases the Tornado’s heat production, it also makes for a rather alluring display on the front, allowing you to admire the rising flame in all its glory.

Metal components help absorb excess heat, preventing the terracotta shell from cracking.

Once the flame is roaring, it heats the terracotta shell, which then emanates warmth to heat your home. The Tornado’s designed to be used both indoors as well as outdoors, mimicking the effect of a fireplace without the hazards of smoke or a potential disaster. The flame is contained within the Tornado’s secure and stable design. Just remember not to touch it, because it gets pretty hot!

Aside from heating, the Tornado can be used to diffuse aromas too. Just add a few drops of an essential oil of your choice to the ceramic wool, and the heat causes aromatic compounds to enter the air, working the way a scented candle does!

The strategic openings also serve an important purpose in allowing you to light or extinguish your Tornado. The lighting process first starts by lifting up the top hood to reveal the heat-resistant ceramic tray inside, with ceramic wool substrate. Pour your bio-ethanol in before placing the hood back. The openings on the side then let you place a long-neck lighter in to light the fire, or a flame snuffer to extinguish the fire instantaneously.

The Tornado currently finished crowdfunding on Kickstarter, raising an impressive $88,485 from nearly 500 backers. The backers will now get to choose what color they want their Tornado in, ranging from the classic beige and orange, to even colors like white, blue, red, and black!

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Spacuzzi lets you stay warm in a small jacuzzi in the ocean

What do you get when you put a boat, a hot tub, and a fireplace in the middle of the ocean? It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but this is actually something that apparently people have been dreaming of. Of course you now have small boats (and big boats) that can accommodate both the hot tub and the fireplace, but what if you just wanted a small group of people to enjoy these amenities with you while you’re lounging in the water?

Designer: Spacruzzi

From the name of the company and the product itself, you can kind of determine what it is or what it wants to be. It actually can’t make up its mind so it combined the three things into just one: a small boat that can fit in four-five people, a gas-powered furnace to warm up the passengers, and of course, a jacuzzi that makes it the perfect hot tub for when you want to relax with close friends in the middle of the sea or ocean instead of just your backyard.

Even when the sea is a bit cold depending on the weather, staying inside the Spacruzzi will keep you warm as it has a propane-powered “stove” that is able to regulate its own temperature. In case you’re concerned that you might blow up due to overheating, it has a safety system and an automatic shut-off feature in case you’re warm enough already. If hygiene is a concern, there is an internal filtration system that also serves as the circulation and heating system. Although of course, sharing a jacuzzi with other people is always a “risk” when it comes to hygiene.

The design of the Spacruzzi is inspired by a teardrop so there’s space for the furnace and a small table in the middle so you can place your food and drinks. And of course, enough space to fit in the four-five people. There is also a ladder on the side so you can go into the sea and swim your heart out and go back to your boat when you want to relax again. You also have the option to customize it according to the color, wood and metal finishes, decking, etc.

I still probably won’t want to spend time in a small space and a jacuzzi in the middle of the ocean with even my closest friends in the spa with me. But hey, if that’s your dream, you just have to get ready with almost $50,000 to make it come true.

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This spherical fire pit comes in a striking form fit for any modern outdoor space

It might have one of the most ironic names for a fire bowl, but this flaming bubble is a good example of form and function working hand-in-hand.

Fire pits are probably one of the last things you’d consider to have a designer product. The way they get charred and burned means they could lose their charm sooner than most products, especially outdoors bowls that are exposed to the elements most of the time. That, however, only served to inspire designers to find a solution that is both practical and beautiful, leading to a fire bowl that looks more like a fire ball.

Designer: Focus

It may have been called “Bubble” for some reason, but that’s definitely not because of its fragility. This nearly spherical fire pit is made from sturdy steel, and its anti-corrosion coating toughens it even more against the elements. The fire basin inside is also designed to make it easy to be removed for ash disposal and cleaning, making it easier to maintain the Bubble’s good looks.

The fire pit’s opening isn’t completely level, as you might have expected from other fire bowls. Its top has been chopped off at an incline, with the “back” rising higher than the front and acting as a shield to protect the fire against the wind. This removes the need to have any other protective cover, making the design simpler and less susceptible to broken parts.

The Bubble’s completely flat bottom means it won’t be rolling away from you, but two rear caster wheels do mean it doesn’t have to be completely stationary. The fire pit can be easily moved across any flat surface or simply turned around to turn against the direction of the wind.

The ironically-named Bubble fire bowl definitely has an eye-catching minimalist design that would look great both outdoors as well as indoors. The current model uses wood to bring light and warmth, but the designer is promising a gas version will be coming, which won’t score points for sustainability.

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This shapeshifting TV turns into a virtual fireplace when you’re not binge-watching Squid Games on Netflix

A winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award, the 77W isn’t a television, but rather a versatile display that can alter itself based on need. For long, televisions have been just ugly black rectangles on walls when they’re switched off, making them rather unappealing to look at 90% of the time. LG’s attempted at solving this problem with their rollable TV, and even Samsung’s tried to address this with their Serif TVs as well as the ‘Ambient Mode’ on their QLED TVs that allowed the television to blend into the background. While the Ambient Mode was a fairly technical feature that required AI to be able to guess what the wall behind it looked like (and LG’s rollable display is just downright expensive), the folks at Skyworth have figured out a rather nifty way to turn the television into an ambient little decor-piece when not in use.

The 77W’s display unit sits on a stone-textured base, and comes with a wooden sleeve that can move up or down (as can the display itself). This allows the TV to assume 3 modes – a TV mode, a concealed mode, and a fireplace mode. The concealed mode allows the display to descend downwards into the wooden sleeve, hiding most of that black box behind a textured wooden panel… but the other two modes allow the 77W to truly shine… either as a high-definition television for watching news, videos, sports, and entertainment content, or as a fireplace that peeks from below the wooden panel, playing a looped high-definition video of burning logs and crackling flames.

What the 77W really does is turn the TV into less of an attention-commanding gadget and more into an ambient piece of technology that fits into homes – just like your smart speakers are designed to blend right into your interiors. The wood and stone aesthetic is relatively minimalist and works well with Scandinavian and Nordic-style of decor, and should really sit well around stone walls or wooden flooring. If you’ve got an inactive or faux fireplace in your apartment to begin with, putting the 77W TV right in front of it could really spruce your place up (and give you a reason to have your furniture facing the fireplace to begin with!)

The 77W Art Display Device is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2021.

Designers: Shenzhen Chuangwei-RGB Electronics (Skyworth)

This sleek cylindrical fireplace suspends from the ceiling, giving your interiors a modern upgrade





It’s like if Scandinavian Design met Super Mario.

Fireplaces have traditionally always been the epicenter of a room’s decor, with furniture and objects placed in relation to it (armchairs facing it, portraits and trophies hanging above and around it). However, over the past few years, they’ve been gradually replaced by ugly, utilitarian radiators that usually hide behind couches or curtains. In a bid to give fireplaces a modern makeover, French manufacturer Focus has introduced the Slimfocus, an incredibly sleek cylindrical fireplace that can either be wall or ceiling-mounted indoors. Despite its minimal design, the Slimfocus has an incredibly captivating allure, almost like a chandelier that makes its way from the ceiling to the floor. The all-black fireplace comes with a transparent glass window that opens to let you access the fire-pit, and when closed, gives you a beautiful view of the dancing flames, as the thermal energy makes its way up the cylindrical shaft and radiates into the house.

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

A winner of the German Design Award as well as the Interior Innovation Award, the Slimfocus’ black periscope-like design provides a brilliant contrast to virtually any interior. Its matte black paint helps it efficiently absorb and radiate thermal heat from the fire, supporting both wood and gas as fuel.

The fireplace can be hung from the ceiling, wall-mounted, or attached to the floor using a baseplate. The ceiling-hung variant of the Slimfocus is made-to-measure depending on the interiors and placement, and can be suspended via either a fixed or pivoting fixture. Compatible with low-energy buildings, Slimfocus draws in air for combustion through the smoke evacuation flue (balanced flue system). It can be installed in traditional homes too, drawing in air from the room (open flue system).

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

Designed to take up less space yet create a massive impact, the Slimfocus assumes a very commanding presence no matter which area of the room it’s located in. The closed fireplace immediately becomes a point of attraction, creating a pivot around which furniture can be oriented, and conversations can be had!

Designer: Focus Fireplaces

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

Slimfocus Slim Modern Fireplace for Indoors

This hidden fireplace has been inspired by a Japanese philosophy!

Fireplaces are usually an attraction point in the interior decor of a space, but in Casa Decor, it is more of a hidden gem. The team appreciates traditional Japanese aesthetics inspired by the wabi-sabi philosophy, which encourages an appreciation for imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete things. The characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of both natural objects and the forces of nature – something that is clearly seen throughout the project and this fireplace. The designer viewed the crack in the wall as a gap in the professional architectural scene and turned it into an opportunity that elevated the room, much like cracks being metaphorical openings leading to projects that make you immerse yourself into a study that will eventually give you winds. Casa Decor is a range of home products designed keeping sustainability in mind.

“We propose to create an aesthetic paradigm based on nature that returns, in a good way, good sense and reason, to the art of living. Return to a more contemplative life and temporarily slow down a frenzied society. We defend a project where sustainability refers to recovering the works of craft workshops in our country,” says Santos.

Designer: Lorna-de-Santos

The SPIN is figuratively the coolest fireplace ever made…

I’d be compromising my journalistic integrity by using the term ‘lit’, but that’s precisely what the SPIN is. A portable fireplace that ditches the age-old flame for a fiery vortex, the SPIN is absolutely alluring to look at. The portable fireplace, or fire vortex if you’re the technical kind, can be used indoors or outdoors. It comes with a base that holds the fire-starter, and an optional glass hood that helps expand the flame to make the vortex bigger and more visible.

The SPIN works by using three guide plates that cause air to rotate before it reaches the flame. The thermal lift of the flame itself accelerates the air, creating a flaming vortex, and the chimney effect caused by SPIN’s glass tube boosts the flow by up to 500% without any extra energy, allowing the vortex to rise significantly higher. The SPIN also packs an ‘extinguisher lid’ made from stainless steel that you can directly place on the top of the glass tube, breaking the air-flow and extinguishing the flame.

For a portable fireplace, the SPIN’s a pretty neat device that also gives you the added advantage of a pyrotechnic light-show. It uses a 500ml can of bioethanol gel that burns using 100% environmentally clean energy. In fact, the only by-product of burning the bioethanol gel is steam. Simply place the can into the SPIN and light it on fire. The SPIN’s guide-plates immediately begin guiding the flame into a vortex (which can be further accentuated using the glass chimney).

Perfect for outdoor as well as indoor use, the SPIN comes with two baseplates (one regular, one elevated) that can be rested on any surface, as well as a garden-pole base that turns it into a tiki-torch you can plant in the ground. With a light-source that can burn for as long as 1.5-2 hours, the SPIN makes an incredibly eye-catching miniature fireplace that does more than supplying warmth and light… it creates a hypnotic flaming vortex that’s definitely worth admiring, or taking slow-mo videos of for the ‘gram…

Designers: Christian Wassermann and Thomas Kaiser of höfats

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The SPIN is a spinning flame in a glass tube! This portable fireplace or fire vortex can be used indoors or outdoors. It comes with a base that holds the fire-starter, and an optional glass hood that helps expand the flame to make the vortex bigger and more visible.

The SPIN works by using three guide plates that cause air to rotate before it reaches the flame. The thermal lift of the flame itself accelerates the air, creating a flaming vortex, and the chimney effect caused by SPIN’s glass tube boosts the flow by up to 500% without any extra energy, allowing the vortex to rise significantly higher.

SPIN Standard

– For indoor* and outdoor* use (*UNIQUE to SPIN)
– Secure and safe stand thanks to a sturdy base (Compliant with DIN EN 16647 high safety standard)
– Base with anti-slip and surface protection
– Burn-time per Bioethanol can: 1.5 hours (using a höfats Bioethanol can*)
– Stainless steel Extinguisher lid included
– Stainless steel base housing
– Extreme heat-resistant Borosilicate glass cylinder tube
– Optional accessories: Extra base height, ground pole, bioethanol can
– Base: 23 cm, glass tube: 12 cm, 54 cm height, 4.1 kg / gross 72 x 27 x 27 cm, 5.6 kg

SPIN Stand Elevation

With its base extension, SPIN also looks great when standing on the ground. Turn your table lantern into a garden lamp by screwing on the extension, no tools needed!

– Increases SPIN by approx. 11 cm
– For ground use of the table lantern
– Remains just as stable
– Simple assembly, no tools needed
– High quality stainless steel
– For outdoor use only
– 9 cm, 11 cm height, 0.2 kg / gross 10 x 10 x 13.5 cm, 0.3 kg

SPIN Pole

The ground spike allows you to easily fix SPIN to the ground. Fascinate your guests during your next garden party by pitching SPIN in your garden. It will become the eye-catcher of the evening.

– Enables use as a garden torch
– Super easy to set up
– Simple screwable assembly, no tools needed
– High quality stainless steel
– For outdoor use only
– 15 cm, 92 cm length, 0.3 kg / gross 15 cm, 92 cm length, 0.3 kg

How to Light SPIN

Simply place the can into the footing made of stainless steel and light it. Then place the high-quality borosilicate glass cylinder over the footing, and watch the flame spin and grow. The beautiful flame vortex can be enjoyed for approx. 1.5 hours per can (Bioethanol FIRE GEL from höfats). To pause the show for a later time, just place the stainless steel extinguisher cap on the glass cylinder. This will extinguish the flame within seconds.

Bioethanol Can

The combustion gel made of thickened alcohol is produced from renewable raw materials and burns in a CO2 neutral, almost completely smokeless and odorless way.

– 500ml bioethanol
– Easily inserted into the stainless steel housing
– Approx. 1.5 hours burn-time
– Safety combustion gel according to highest EG Regulation N° 1907/2006 (REACH)
– Recyclable tinplate can

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This KFC Firelog Smells Like Fried Chicken

KFC knows how to celebrate the holiday season. This year when you sit down by the fire, put one of these fried chicken-scented logs on. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to eat one, but it sure smells good. If you don’t have any fried chicken, burning these in your fireplace will make you want some for sure.

It is called the “KFC 11 Herbs and Spices firelog.” Light it up, smell KFC chicken. The logs will set you back $18.99 each, and are only available while supplies last. This would make a pretty funny Christmas gift, so get one while you can.

It is the latest in KFC’s often bizarre marketing strategy. “At KFC, we have always been proud of our role in bringing loved ones together at the dinner table around a bucket of our world-famous fried chicken,” Andrea Zahumensky, KFC US’ CMO, said. “Now, this winter we’re bringing all the things we love – family, friends and fried chicken – together around the fire with our scented firelog.

All I know is that Santa is going to be sad when he smells this, and there’s no chicken.

[via Business Insider]

These Flaming Demon Fireplace Skulls Will Terrify Your Neighbors

If you want to make your fires look badass, there’s only one way to do it. Throw in a demon skull or two. You can toss them in your fire right next to those human skull logs that the same company was selling a while back. They must have been a big hit.

Just fill your fire pit with a huge mountain of these demonic looking skulls and watch your neighbors live in fear of you after. Especially if you act weird and start chanting and circling around the fire pit… while wearing robes. One of you should be holding a knife, and maybe should shout something about “the prophecy” too. That should do it. They will never talk to you again, which is probably a good thing. Yeah. Most neighbors suck.

These demon versions of the popular ceramic fireproof skulls are for use in gas fireplaces and in regular fire pits. These have hollow eye sockets so that the flames can go through them and look awesome. They aren’t cheap though, at around $60 per skull over on Amazon.

It’s worth the investment because a pile of burning demon skulls is something that every home needs – and you can get some just in time for Halloween too.

[via The Green Head via Geekologie]

The Fireplace Gets a Modern Facelift

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Wood burning fireplaces are quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially if you reside in a big city apartment or new home… but that doesn’t mean you can’t get cozy! Designed by a group from the University of Buenos Aires, the AWA home heater is a modern interpretation of the familiar form of the fluted fireplace that utilizes new thermal power tech to fill your home with warmth and ambience.

The design generates thermal power through electrolysis, breaking the bonds in the water molecules and then combusting the separated hydrogen. The hot air rises along the body releasing heat by the means of convection using the ventilations allocated in the upper part. At the same time the central core made of refractory ceramics radiates warmth, even once it’s turned off. Better yet, it uses 40% less energy compared to a classic stove, avoids troublesome code requirements, and be a whole lot safer!

Designers: Lucia de Cabo, Sofia Fratichelli, Tomas Planas & Gonzalo Rossi

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