Tile Stoves: European High Art Meets American High Tech

Preservation Green values protecting historic legacies. The hearth is the site of  anthropological and architectural tradition. 

Fire seems always to have held a powerful attraction for man. Fire is necessary for warmth and cooking. Open hearths and stoves for living ultimately advanced into oven stoves, as early as the 1300s. They are the first real heating appliances in history. 

Swedish tile stoves improved efficiency by providing more heat-radiating surface. Today Sweden no longer manufactures stove tiles. The only "new" tile stoves available in Sweden are antiques salvaged from old buildings. These stoves may be a century and more old, but rebuilt they are good as new. Today's common Swedish tile stove is a five-channel model.