This Ridiculous Stove Can Burn an Entire Tree Trunk | Wired Design | Wired.com
Americans purchased nearly a quarter-million wood stoves last year,
and despite their popularity in the modern era the aesthetic options
would be surprisingly familiar to colonial-era shoppers. Fortunately for
fans of clean lines, Dutch designers Michiel Martens and Roel de Bohr
have remade the wood-fired heating stove for the contemporary home.
Called the Spruce Stove,
their bespoke 55-gallon fireplace breaks with tradition by trading out a
boring hinged door for a portal that irises open like an airlock on a
sci-fi space ship, or the opening credits of a Bond flick.
The aluminum sheath of the stove will appeal to urban design
aficionados, but the unconventional feedstock will excite wannabe
mountain men. The machine isn’t stoked with split cordwood or puny
sawdust pellets—entire tree trunks are fed into its fiery maw. The
length of the log dictates the amount of heat produced while
simultaneously acting a visual indicator, a sort of pinewood progress
bar.
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