LC0249

A hearth in the middle of a cliff. The upper part hangs above the fire — an opaque mass suspended so that a gap remains between it and the hearth, through which the flame is visible from every side.

The texture is weathered: vertical cracks, chips, patches of moss. The object looks like a fragment of a cliff face lifted out of a landscape and set down in a room together with the fire that burned at its foot.

By day it is a sculptural column — heavy, stony, silent. In the evening the hearth is lit and the composition becomes what it was conceived as: a campfire beneath an overhanging rock, the oldest interior there is.

Where it works

Living rooms with high ceilings, lobbies, spas, terraces, winter gardens, restaurant floors.

Selection by space: Hotel lobby and public spaces · Restaurant and bar · Spa and pool

Style

Brutalist luxury and organic modernism: unworked stone, timber, large volumes. The message is the primal — fire and rock, the things people gathered around before there were houses.