Cool to be Hot in the Marais

Due to the nu-fires, highlighted in earlier posts , even the most severe of minimalists can now warm their cold, hard heart in front of a roaring fire, says SpaceTM's Mark

Fire's irritating ability to create randomly tumbling charcoals and white plaster-threatening smoke – plus its refusal to burn in a straight line – was previously too anxious an experience for the aesthetically and tonally civilised.

This set-peice fire, above, at the Murano Hotel was a welcome sight – even for the most precise -– during a chilled New Years Eve in the Parisian Marais.

The polished concrete wall (check) was inset (check) with a wall-length straight line (check) of flame (check) burning cleanly out of grey (check) pebbles (check). Fire as fire should be.

Man supposedly became man when he harnessed fire. It was just never quite harnessed enough for my liking. Until now.