An open hearth – gathering site to mankind since the beginning of time – stands at the center of the showroom.
Project Name: Fireplace – Showroom for a stove maker
Office Name: Messner Architects
Office Website: www.messnerarchitects.com
Firm Location: Zona artigianale 8, 39054 Collalbo (Renon), Italy
Completion Year: 2022
Gross Built Area (m2/ ft2):175m2
Project Location: Collalbo/Klobenstein
Program / Use / Building Function: Showroom, Offices
Lead Architects: Messner Architects
Photo Credits: Karina Castro

Four charred wooden stage walls laid-out around the fireplace form the backdrop for the displays of stoves and tiles. In their midst, sits complacently heavy the hearth’s monolith rock.


An ashen-colored carpeting, oiled MDF furniture, Heraklith ceiling and wall panels, a coarse green plaster and an interior roof structure painted in black elicit forever archaic motifs associated with fire.
