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Bold, bespoke, beautiful: warm your home and soul with contemporary fireplace designs
Until relatively recently, fireplaces were similar in function and aesthetics.
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Warm your home with contemporary fireplace designs that are both functional and sculptural. Suspended fires create a dramatic focal point, hanging from the ceiling to save space and often rotating 360 degrees.
Double-sided fires are ideal for open-plan living, dividing areas while maintaining visual flow. Modern freestanding fires offer slim lines and bespoke colours, while sleek built-in fireplaces provide a panoramic flame view that can be safely integrated into cabinetry for a seamless finish.
Suspended Fires
Double-Sided Fires
This application of a double-sided fireplace shares light and warmth to different areas of a Versatile family home by Rogan Nash Architects.
Freestanding Fires
This highly efficient, clean-burning Ethos Phoenix freestanding fire, one of the only wood burners available in New Zealand suitable for airtight construction, is the singular heat source in a cleaver little home by Chaney & Norman Architects in Luggate
Built-In Fireplaces
A minimilist fireplace design adds effortless ambience to this modern Mt Maunganui home by Studio2 Architects
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