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Antonio Citterio |
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Designer
Antonio Citterio was born in Italy
and currently lives
and works in Milan. He founded Antonio Citterio and Partners, an
architectural and design studio, and his products are part of the MOMA permanent
collection and have won many prizes, including the reddot design award
Chicago Museum of Architecture and Design Good Design award
for
the Shaker stove in 2006.
He attributes his
success to: "I make
things for myself, I don't work with marketing instructions. If I wouldn't
surround myself with these things, I don't make them. If it doesn't work,
don't do it."
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Bent Falk |
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Designer Bent Falk
was born in Denmark and currently lives and works on the coast in Kalundborg.
He has an industrial design background and has developed a broad range of
products. He created the first
Rais stoves in the late
1960s. They are a classic
style and the basis for all modern wood burning stoves in Europe. He has now
recreated the new Wittus Klassic stove/fireplace.
Recently he designed the Phoenix grill for Wittus as well as the outdoor gelfire Pillar products.
The award winning designer's philosophy is:
"Good design is when form and function go hand-in-hand and at the end of the
day is a result of a close teamwork between the producer and designer."
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Paul Henninge |
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Over
the past twenty years, Paul Henninge has honed a unique combination of
skills to enable the design of brilliant hearth products. Utilizing elements
of product
engineering,
architecture, and furniture design, and with a clear understanding of
micro/macro trends, the result is a product that customers desire to own.
Paul, who is from Vermont,
worked with Wittus to develop the new Flatfire direct vent gas fireplace.
His
philosophies on design intermingle social and environmental impacts of the
material world in our daily lives.
“I love to manage design, but I do like doing the design work
myself." He also
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Mads
Miltersen |
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Feedback from architects and homeowners is evident in Jydepejsen's
celebrated design acumen, which marries the elemental need for efficient
home heating with the love of fine furnishings and graceful living.
Mads
Miltersen heads the team with expertise in both industrial and decorative
arts and is a champion for the "less is more" school of contemporary home
fashion.
You'll see his influence
in the spare lines and gentle curves, the "invisible" hinges on some units,
the artfully sculpted soapstone on others, even the remote control unit was
ergonomically designed by him to be aesthetically pleasing and comfortable
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Anders Nørgaard |
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Famed Danish Designer
Anders Nørgaard is the
architect behind the new Cubic series of stoves: "I did not just want to
make a stove, I wanted it to be something more than that", says Anders, involved for about 2 years.
Among the seven models of
varying sizes, some are floor models and others are directly attached on the
wall. Anders Nørgaard designed shelves for firewood on a couple of the
models. He explains that, "A stove can still be a large unit like the old
cast-iron stoves."
Anders, who built
his own house, relates: "You have to have a stove - there's a special
feeling about a fire." |
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Eva
Solo |
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The Eva Solo grill products have been designed by the Danish duo Claus
Jensen and Henrik Holbaek, who have also created a number of other
innovative products. The
Barrel grill has won several awards including:
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Vlastislav Vyborny |
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Sleek, sexy curves,
forward-thinking engineering, and flawless performance.
Vlastislav Vyborny, an exciting
and award-winning Czech designer from Romotop approaches
fireplace design the same way European auto makers approach development of
high-performance sports cars.
Using ergonomic
intelligence and pace-setting style savvy, Vlastislav fast-forwards traditional
ceramic hearths of yesteryear into the aesthetically demanding, push-button
world of the 21st century. |
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