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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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Explore contemporary fireplace designs that blend warmth with bold style. Suspended fires offer a sculptural, space-saving statement, often with 360-degree rotation. Double-sided fires are perfect for open-plan living, efficiently heating large areas while connecting spaces.
Freestanding fires provide a modern take on the classic log burner with slim lines and custom colours. For a seamless look, built-in fireplaces offer an elegant, panoramic flame integrated safely into cabinetry, delivering both style and efficient heat.
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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