Designist Dream

Taking the outdoors in. Meeting nature with industry. Israeli born, Paris-based designer, and my personal superstar, Arik Levy, has done it again. Revamping the traditional indoors fireplace for a new, modern and abstracted collection for Planika Fires. Stripped down to the basic elements - fire, fuel and protection (albeit not exactly child-proof, but still encased in glass) - Levy’s coffee table are more natural function and industrial form.

No longer piled high logs or deeply inset caverns of fire, Levy’s new fireside chat-sites suggest what we need most is for these exterior, natural phenomena to fit in well with our industrial interiors. We need them to be beautiful (minimal, clean lines), match our decor (coated steel options in several colors), be easy to use (new liquid fuel called FANOLA® is smoke free, ash free and less harmful for the environment), and multitask (glass surround doubles as a coffee table). Ranging in price from $650 - $1350, Levy’s fireplaces are also, apparently, suitable for indoor and outdoor use but considering whether the glass table-top surround will hook onto your backpack for the hike up to the forest camp site, you’re better off leaving these fires burning indoors. All industry, with just a spark of nature.