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HENRY HARRISON | THE MINIMILIST WHO TRANSFORMED FLAME

His epiphany came in 1984, when he was designing a Chelsea flat for an American. The client wanted a fireplace, but Henry felt that it wasn't appropriate to a modern interior. The client insisted, so a contemporary double-sided 'hole in the wall' was added. Then, because no modern grate could be found, Henry designed his own, forerunner of his now classic chromed 'Euclid' grate.

PLATONIC LANDMARKS: 23 YEARS OF INNOVATION
1984 THE GEOLOG FIRE Henry Harrison designs the first fireplace for contemporary interiors: the Geolog Fire. Comprising a gridded chrome finished basket featuring contemporary cast geometric forms; the original Platonic Solids Published in the World of Interiors, this fire caught the imagination of designers and kick started the Platonic Fireplace Company.

1986 FIRE PEBBLES Extending the range of non-kitch (i.e. imitation fire forms like coals and logs) fire objects, Henry Harrison devises architectural fragments (standing stones, corinthian capitals) culminating in fire pebbles. These are hand cast from found beach pebbles, with the look, weight and randomness of the original, but with the fire integrity they lacked!

1992 HOLE-IN-THE-WALL FIREPLACE Breaking away from floor standing fireplaces with all their attendant paraphenalia i.e. mantles and pilasters, fire fenders and fire dogs, baskets and brass coal scuttles, Henry Harrison designs a stripped-down minamilist hole-in-the-wall contemporary fireplace with a stone surround, but no hearth.

1996 SHELF FIRE Seeking an alternative to the hole-in-the-wall concept, Henry Harrison arrives at the idea of a simple suspended granite shelf featuring a circular burner and an informal mound of fire objects; the first contemporary shelf fire.

1998 GEOCOALS A miniature version of Geologs called Geocoals are factory manufactured (to keep down the costs) and produced in primary colours. These can be used to replace kitch coals, within existing fire grates, or combined with other Platonic products to mark a further step away from the traditional fireplace.

2000 FIRESCAPE The concept of the-hole-in-the-wall fireplace is made more accessible by the introduction of an off-the-peg fireplace comprising a kit of parts; stainless steel surround, flat burner, limestone hearth, fire objects and remote control. The first fireplace for the intelligent home!

2001 BEACHSCAPE Henry Harrisons fireplace designs feature in a number of television home make over programmes. His new fire object range, Beachscape, is shown by Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen on Homefront.

2002 FIREPLACE ARCHITECTURE Exploring a contemporary expression of a traditional floor-standing fireplace, Henry Harrison designs Palladio, a unique wide-framed monolithic surround combined with a shelf and under panel with feature slot. The shelf can utilise either a flat burner, or an architectural bowl, providing a contemporary classical fireplace solution for period homes.

2003 RIVERSTONES Platonic commission sculptor Iris Friedler, to produce a visually compelling range of extraordinary and unique fire objects simply called Riverstones

2004 PLATONIC COLLECTION Marking 20 years of endeavour, Henry Harrison cements his image as an innovator of cutting edge fireplace design by forging an alliance with the manufacturing expertise and reputation for customer service of Blackburn based Legend Fires. The result is a breathtaking selection of off-the-peg fireplaces in cast stone and stainless steel, based on this bespoke design featuring the celebrated fire objects. The Platonic Collection is a choice of fireplace settings from classic to minamialist of unparalleled quality and originality.

2005 WOODSCAPE Extending the choice of fire objects further, Henry Harrison devises a range of non-combustible ceramic leaves and twigs giving a naturalistic impression of collected objects from the floor of a forest clearing.

2006 WINGS OF FLAME A breakthrough in contemporary fireplace design, Wings of Flame moves the dialogue onto another plane with its suspended aileron of flame. The design won an award at the annual Fires and Fireplaces show in Harrogate, and helped Legend secure Manufacturer of the Year for the second year in succession.

2007 FLAMEWAVE & ELECTROSCAPE Henry Harrison unveils his latest fireplace designs at 100% Design in London. Flamewave, a contemporary wave-form fire shelf intersects a rectangular cast stone frame with hand cast driftwood shapes on display. Electroscape, an electronic fireplace takes the synthetic flame effect to a new level of realism.