Hasta La Gadget!

Winter is almost over, so you may want to make a note of this one for next year (unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere or England, in which case the next six months will be nice and cold). It’s a rather lovely-looking ceramic stove, a heater that’s more at home in the pages of a decor magazine than in the traditional dirty log cabin.

The stove is called the Stack, and comes from La Castellamonte and Adriano Design in Italy. This one is the Cube Stack, and puts a pair of ceramic cubes on top of a fetching hardwood stool. The bottom cube eats the fuel, either wood or special fuel pellets, and the top part lets the hot air waft out. Think of it as an open fireplace for modern apartments.

Alas, it also comes with the same requirement as any other fire: the smoke needs somewhere to go. So while chimneys are conveniently absent from the entire Stack Stoves catalog, you’ll need to put one in. It’s not too hard, as long as you aren’t averse to knocking a hole in the wall. My neighbor, who shares the top floor of our building, has had a rather less fancy stove for a while. It seems to work, although I have never seen it in action as he no longer speaks to me.

The Stack Stoves catalog is price-free. And we all know what that means in the luxury home-goods field: scary-high prices.

Stack Stoves [Stack Stack via StoveCrunch]

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