Created by Walter Moberg, a Portland-based consultant who specializes in fireplace design, it includes a fireplace, a barbecue and a roughly 30-foot chimney, all built from sandstone.
Another visitor asked Cora about a fireplace design and she said she'd never noticed it before.
In the faxes, Navarrete gives direction on work orders ranging from changes in grout and tile color to detailed sketches of fireplace design plans.
It has a small kitchenette, open bedroom, full bathroom with walls and floors covered in pebbles, and a fireplace designed by Paul Evans.
Earlier this year, Heat-N-Glo, one of the largest hearth manufacturers, introduced the Dakota, a gas fireplace designed specifically for outdoor use.
OUTDOOR SPACE: The lot is a little under an acre, with a terrace and a stone patio that includes a brick fireplace designed to look like a wall left over from a ruined outbuilding.
So I get some coffee and set out for Hearthgrove, a rustic, four-sided outdoor fireplace designed by the architect Julia Morgan deep within The Women's Federation Grove, established by the California Federation of Women's Clubs in 1932.
Their house is now like a loft on four floors, with wide-open spaces, exposed-brick walls and, on the parlor floor, a concrete and bluestone fireplace designed by Mr. Rohlfing that is beautifully sculptural, the focal point of the spare room, so spare that the three boys can ride their scooters unhindered by anything more than a sofa and one chair.
5) High Tech Major Appliances - The Kitchen Stove -- New in homes the Franklin stove, a metal-lined fireplace designed by Benjamin Franklin is all the rage!
But an elegant Arts and Crafts-era tile fireplace designed by renowned Pasadena tile maker and ceramicist Ernest Allan Batchelder, thought to have been installed sometime after the house was built in 1923, remains completely intact.
Brasa, of New Orleans, was showing a line of alcohol-fueled fireplaces designed for floor and tabletop use.
