New Retro-Style Continental Heating 'Stoves'
This charming retro-style traditional "Bavaria" ceramic-tiled heating stove (left) has a Magmatic fireclay core, is only 156cm high x 72cm wide (including optional headpiece and plinth), plugs into a regular 13-amp domestic wall socket and runs very economically on renewable and increasingly clean electric power.
The American writer, Mark Twain, wrote this about the traditional German Kachelofen or ceramic-tiled heating stove:
"To the uninstructed stranger itpmmises nothing; but one will soon find that it is a masterly performer, for all that...
At halfpast seven on a cold morning a servant brings a small basketful of slender pine stick - say a modified armful - and puts half of these in, lights them with a match, and closes the door They burn out in ten or twelve minutes. He then puts in the rest, locks the door and carries off the key. The work is done. He will not come again until next morning. All day long and until past midnight all parts of the room will be delightfiully warm and comfortable, and there will be no headaches and no sense of closeness or oppression ...one is as comfortable in one part of the mom as in another Nothing is gained or lost by being near the stove."
Now you too can effortlessly harness centuries of continental heating experience-without the usual mess, smoke, soot or ash!
The marble - or granite - topped mobile ceramic tiled heating 'stoves' (above) are an established, practical and versatile heating option for full or supplementary heating or just for occasional, unseasonal cold-weather heating.