Curated Fireplaces

In 1983, the French sculptor Dominique Imbert drew the Ergofocus: a suspended, pivoting hearth built on the heretical idea that a fireplace ought to occupy the middle of a room, and be free to turn. Four decades on, the silhouette is still in production — still unmistakably modern. The Holographik® is what happens when that sculpture meets the next forty years.

There is no fire in this fireplace. The flames are produced in three dimensions by a holographic system, dancing over naturalistic ceramic logs; the sound is the familiar crackle of wood, indistinguishable from the real thing. No flue. No fuel. No emissions. A standard wall socket, and it is alive.

That makes it the first fireplace we can install almost anywhere — top-floor apartments, low-carbon homes, restaurants and lobbies where a chimney was never going to be possible. It is, by some distance, the most interesting object we have shown anyone in a long time. We are not entirely certain whether to call it a fireplace or a small piece of theatre. We are certain that, the first time you see it, you will understand.