Greed for quiet” is the design of a modern fireplace which deals with the yearning of the people today for naturalness, direct contact to objects and processes. It is about the rising “greed” of the people for traditions and old things. For things that seem to symbolize a better and clearer life in a together growing, confused world nowadays. The fire is one of these old, traditional things. A natural element that has been essential for the people for every time.

But it is disappearing from our homes in its naturalness. We use gas or tablets instead of wood to set it on fire and we hide it behind glas or concrete. And from time to time we watch the fire in the TV and don`t know what we are missing.

Greed for quiet” brings the nature back in our homes, to sensitize the users for natural things and processes by a direct contact to the fire. The idea was to intensivate the awareness of the people for nature by connecting the fireplace with the benches and by a free access to the fire from all directions. The benches are movable around the fireplace in 360 degrees. So the user can choose if he or she wants to sit and relaxe alone, or in community with others.

The benches are floating and give the users a free and natural feeling like on a campfire.

The design is inspired by traditional elements of a fireplace in terms of woodstorage and nature combined with modern technologies like 3D wood...an idea to live in a modern world without forgetting traditions and origins.

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