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Custom Corten Linear Fire Table
We are very excited to have just completed a custom linear fire table bound for the Four Seasons Hotel and Resort in Jackson Hole Wyoming. The fire pit combines a Corten steel top, 78″ x 36″ x 12″ that is elevated an additional 6″ on a cast concrete base. Here are some pics of it just about to leave our premises. We hope to see it in situ soon! Continue reading
Feature Project – Sean Jancski Landscape Architects
This photograph was sent to us by Sean Jancski, a landscape architect in New York, of his project in Westport Connecticut. The project features a Robata 54 Linear Outdoor Fire on an Ipe deck, in a private residence in the … Continue reading
Miso Modern Firebowls at the Design Exchange Intersection Event
Miso Firebowls by Paloform guide visitors to the Design Exchange relaunch gala Intersection on November 16, 2012 in Toronto Continue reading
Moving to Modern – The Evolution of the Gas Fireplace
With the development of clean-faced gas fireplaces, ribbon flames and ventless, open ethanol burners, designers now have the raw materials for modern gas fireplace design. Modern gas fires are not simply appliances, but design elements that can be used create fire features that tie into and complement their environs, using contemporary proportions. Continue reading
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New Fire Pits for Spring at IDS 12
Paloform displayed some of our modern fireplace tile and surround products, as well as our complete line of outdoor fire pits at Toronto’s Interior Design Show. Continue reading
Intrinsic value versus intrinsic beauty
When it comes to design, I really believe that intrinsic beauty is more important than intrinsic value – at least when we use the word “value” in the way that it is most widely used today. Continue reading
Designing With Concrete – Color In Context
For anyone who has ever chosen paint colors, you know how important it is to view potential color choices in the space that they will ultimately be used. And you also know how difficult it is to choose a color … Continue reading
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Fly Ash Concrete – Part One: The Bad, The Ugly…
As makers of luxury concrete fireplaces and fire pits, I believe that we have a responsibility to make our manufacturing process as sustainable and energy-efficient as possible. And in the world of green concrete, nothing gets my mixer turning faster … Continue reading
Modern Fireplace Showroom – Our Greenwall
One of the features in our fireplace showroom that we had a lot of fun conceptualizing, researching and building is the green wall. Not only had we always wanted to build a green wall, but it was to frame and … Continue reading
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Things we love – Toronto’s Mjolk
Mjolk is a retail design shop located in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood that specializes in fine modern Scandinavian and Scandinavian-inspired design objects and furniture. The shop is owned by John Baker and Juli Daoust and, in my opinion, they have done … Continue reading
