Have any good designers taken a crack at wood burning stoves? Its kind of a strange concept, but I've often thought modernist and neomodernist homes would benefit from a very chic looking wood burner. I've seen lots of fire places designed for such houses, but never a wood burning stove, which actually offers alot of function, especially in desert and mountain locations.
The well-known brands
in Scandinavia (these are the ones that I know best) are Jotul in Norway and Ries and Morso (olive's favorite) in Denmark.
Unfortunately selecting the US on their websites does not always give you the most interesting part of their assortment. Case in point: Jotul. If you select for instance the Netherlands you see quite interesting products you will not find under the U.S. selection (see link).
The other problem is the low use of biofuels (wood etc.) for heating purposes. Even in a country like Sweden where instaling a pellets burning system gets a 15,000 sw.kr. tax credit less than 8% of homes (mostly rural) are heated with bio-fuels. The U.S.A. has 400.000 pellet stoves installed...so you are right, someone should wake up
http://www.jotul.no/content/products/ProductType____3414.aspx
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