fireplace by wh yen from taiwan
designer's own words:
In the modern society, we invent lots of new devices to make our life better: we create an electric light instead of a candle, a telephone instead of a mail, and also a radiator instead of a fireplace. During these processes, we create something convenient but we lose something important--- something emotional, something poetic, and something which touches one deeply in the heart.
The fireplace was the heart of home in past days. Family or friends always enjoy their happiness and share their experiences around the fireplace. However, this experience is no longer existed after the new heater instead of the fireplace. Therefore, the concept of the new radiator is to combine the technology nowadays and the experience in the past in order to rebuild a new heart of home.
a built in radiator as a mirror
a fireplace as the heart of home
diagram of fireplace