The Gyrofocus, designed by the award-winning contemporary fireplace maker Focus, has been named as the World’s Most Beautiful Object for the 2008-2009 Pulchra design competition. The suspended fireplace achieved the highest number of votes in the inaugural year of the ten-year design competition. Over a year, 74,425 participants voted by Internet for the 10 most beautiful objects among 100 selected by a jury of experts in design and architecture, including Alessandro Mendini, Italo Lupi and Matteo Vercelloni. The fireplace created by Dominique Imbert in 1968 came out as the voters’ top choice, over objects ranging from a television designed by Philips, a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, creations by Philippe Starck, and a Leo Cut diamond; their key point in common being the beauty of their design.
Anybody else got anything more beautiful?
Anybody else got anything more beautiful? /// Yea, put that picture of what’s her name back up. I note it is the conceptualized “perfect fireplace” that we are contemplating and not the actual picture of it which does not but tease us from eternity. And the same for Kate Beckinsale.
Maybe if it’s 1974.
I had a similar styled (only much less “beautiful”) fireplace in an old apartment. It was terrible at keeping a fire going because there’s only one place for oxygen to get into the fireplace, right at the front.
And the all-steel construction made it so easy to get 2nd degree burns when you accidentally brushed up against it.
You can vacuum under it. That’s a plus.
If the design (does as it appears to do and) heat created passes efficiently into the room, it is the most beautiful fireplace I have ever seen.
Try to kid-proof THAT.
My 1911.
I wouldn’t recommend the design in earthquake prone areas.
42. And the question is: “Howzithangin, man? Or m’am.”
I agree it’s an elegant design for an ordinary object. Looks like it can be situated nearly anywhere in the home and rotated as well.
I’m sure it was designed by a gay designer because it is perfect. Well done and great choice for the award.
It looks like a pain in the ass to clean out.
That’s not something I’d want to have in a house with children and/or pets. And then there’s the issue of the fire screen–doesn’t seem to be one.
Uncle Dave I think the Snow Leopard babe is way beautiful!
#9- Judging by the design you are right about the fireplace being gay. The only surprise is that it doesn’t have a duel firebox. Otherwise you have the perfect dick fireplace.
Gays are so single minded.
I love that picture. You have a nice fireproof tile floor every place except under the fire. Genius.
Somebody was smoking something during that contest.
Tell me that thing doesn’t sway like a mofo when you’re stoking it…
#12: Perhaps if she were seductively posed, naked, waiting hungrily by the fireplace, her sexual desire as hot as the embers in the stove… Um, OK. I now feel sick and need to lie down.
Well this is limited to objects so my wife doesn’t count. Yet for me she is the most beautiful creation that has ever walked this earth. Comparisons are an exercise in literary futility.
That and she took out the trash this morning.
Yeah, I got something more beautiful: my thumb!
#12, noname,
That “babe” is really a picture of Alphie getting ready to go out.
Here is Alphie caught on camera the night before. The fat ass likes little boys.