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Balance Fireplace by Conmoto

Traditional fireplaces be gone. While, honestly, we'd be happy with any type of fireplace at all, Conmoto's Balance Fireplace has now become our fantasy fireplace.

We love this floating version, with its sleek combination of alcohol-fueled fireplace, firewood storage, and shelving units or chests of drawers. There are air chambers positioned between the components so that heat dissipates upwards.

We weren't surprised to find that it was designed by Peter Maly, or that it won the 2005 reddot award in Germany.

Comments (12)

Ventless. Illegal in NYC. Oh, Apartment Therapy, why do you torment me so??

posted by Vanessa in New York on December 4th 2007 at 1:38pm
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Why bother having a wood storage bin for a fireplace that burns alcohol? That's just so not cool. If it's a fake fireplace, then it should look like a fireplace!

posted by hejiranyc on December 4th 2007 at 1:45pm
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If you live in California and you're dreaming of a fireplace, check out Malm. They sell wood-burning and vented (not ventless) gas fireplaces.

I have the firedrum 2 in white (in NYC) and I am working on getting a gas logset put inside.

http://www.malmfireplaces.com/firdrum.html

posted by Vanessa in New York on December 4th 2007 at 1:59pm
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Those chairs look sweet.

http://zero255zero.com

posted by andyh182 on December 4th 2007 at 4:03pm
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I wonder if this is somehow DIYable using a fireplace that is actually legal.

posted by Kristina on December 4th 2007 at 6:00pm
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loving this...and the accompanied shelving really swell idea. I like the wood props. still gives the illusion of.

posted by richie rich on December 4th 2007 at 6:46pm
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I love the cherub painting in the first image ... any idea who the artist is?

posted by mcloudy on December 5th 2007 at 12:33am
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i NEED this! i'm not having any luck finding prices. i'm certain they're dirt cheap : )

has anyone come across links to US retailers or prices?

posted by jeffnyc on December 5th 2007 at 5:00am
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if you click on the link jeffnyc, you can find the US distributor. don't see any prices. you know what that means...

posted by lisa2 in austin on December 5th 2007 at 6:00am
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btw... illegal in NYC. i won't tell if you don't.

posted by jeffnyc on December 5th 2007 at 6:01am
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If you look at the site this is actually a wood-burning fireplace. They do have some alcohol fireplaces, but I've been concerned they are not really worth it.

In an article in the NYT a little while back, a reviewer basically said it was not much better than lighting a few candles in terms of the flame you get. Another commenter I saw on a blog somewhere basically said "watching a burner on a gas stove is more exciting."

Has anyone else had experiences with alcohol-fueled ventless fireplaces? And are those really illegal in NYC, or is it just the gas ventless fireplaces?

posted by eeeck on December 5th 2007 at 6:18am
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Two words: WANT !

posted by wiscompton on December 5th 2007 at 8:22am
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