In 1960, a young Bay Area engineer named Carl Malm built a fireplace in his own living room and, finding nothing on the market quite like it, decided to put it into production. The shape he drew — a hand-formed steel cone, suspended over a circular firebox, finished in glass-hard porcelain enamel — is the shape Malm still makes today, sixty-six years on, out of a workshop in Santa Rosa, California. Few objects of any kind have aged this well.

The "DV" is direct-vent: sealed-combustion gas, drawing its combustion air from outside and exhausting back through the same coaxial pipe. Nothing is taken from the room.

Everything else about it is unchanged. The cone is still cold‑rolled steel, hand-formed in Santa Rosa. The finish is still kiln-fired porcelain enamel — the same coating you'd find on a vintage stove or a Le Creuset pot, hard as glass and good for the life of the building. The colour catalogue still runs deep: matte black, of course, but also Persimmon, Avocado, Pacific Blue, a true poppy red, a cream that looks like the inside of an eggshell. The 34 DV can disappear into a quiet wall or become the loudest object in the room. You decide.

Installation is, by Malm standards, refreshingly simple. The coaxial vent runs through an exterior wall or up through the roof; no masonry chimney is required, which makes it as workable in a 1962 rancher as it is in a 2026 build. Each one is made to order in California, in the colour and configuration you choose.

We show the Malm 34 Zircon DV in the Curated collection because it is one of the very few fireplaces that is also, plainly, a piece of furniture. It belongs in a Creative FireSpace™ that wants colour, character, and a clear point of view.

Made to order in Santa Rosa, California. Lead times are honest — these are hand-built objects, not warehouse stock — so speak with us early in your project and we'll plan the schedule together.