The Gyrofocus, designed by the award-winning contemporary fireplace maker Focus, has been named as the World’s Most Beautiful Object for the 2008-2009 Pulchra design competition. The suspended fireplace achieved the highest number of votes in the inaugural year of the ten-year design competition. Over a year, 74,425 participants voted by Internet for the 10 most beautiful objects among 100 selected by a jury of experts in design and architecture, including Alessandro Mendini, Italo Lupi and Matteo Vercelloni. The fireplace created by Dominique Imbert in 1968 came out as the voters’ top choice, over objects ranging from a television designed by Philips, a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, creations by Philippe Starck, and a Leo Cut diamond; their key point in common being the beauty of their design.
Anybody else got anything more beautiful?
Anybody else got anything more beautiful? /// Yea, put that picture of what’s her name back up. I note it is the conceptualized “perfect fireplace” that we are contemplating and not the actual picture of it which does not but tease us from eternity. And the same for Kate Beckinsale.
You can vacuum under it. That’s a plus.
Try to kid-proof THAT.
My 1911.
42. And the question is: “Howzithangin, man? Or m’am.”
I agree it’s an elegant design for an ordinary object. Looks like it can be situated nearly anywhere in the home and rotated as well.
I’m sure it was designed by a gay designer because it is perfect. Well done and great choice for the award.
It looks like a pain in the ass to clean out.
That’s not something I’d want to have in a house with children and/or pets. And then there’s the issue of the fire screen–doesn’t seem to be one.
Uncle Dave I think the Snow Leopard babe is way beautiful!
#9- Judging by the design you are right about the fireplace being gay. The only surprise is that it doesn’t have a duel firebox. Otherwise you have the perfect dick fireplace.
Gays are so single minded.
I love that picture. You have a nice fireproof tile floor every place except under the fire. Genius.
Somebody was smoking something during that contest.
Tell me that thing doesn’t sway like a mofo when you’re stoking it…
#12: Perhaps if she were seductively posed, naked, waiting hungrily by the fireplace, her sexual desire as hot as the embers in the stove… Um, OK. I now feel sick and need to lie down.
Well this is limited to objects so my wife doesn’t count. Yet for me she is the most beautiful creation that has ever walked this earth. Comparisons are an exercise in literary futility.
That and she took out the trash this morning.
Yeah, I got something more beautiful: my thumb!
#12, noname,
That “babe” is really a picture of Alphie getting ready to go out.
Here is Alphie caught on camera the night before. The fat ass likes little boys.
#16 Are you still talking about the fireplace?
#13 I don’t get your ‘perfect dick fireplace’ insult and now wonder if you had something in mind for your place?
I saw a knock-off design from your hometown of Alabama but was shocked it was made out of wood.
Since there is a nice space between it and the floor you aren’t going to catch the floor on fire not that tile would have burned but you do need to keep the rug out of the way.
# 11 I started say that a kid or pet will only touch this thing once but this thing is just hanging and I can see some kid or large dog running into the thing and knocking the whole thing down.
Going to the link, under the “vote” tab, this fireplace really does deserve to win. Wonder why no cars, guns, sculptures were entered?
Wrong! Should be a vagina.
It’s indeed quite beautiful, but most beautiful in the world?? The Chrysler Building, El Capitan, 1957 De Soto, Golden Gate Bridge, just to name a few are better.
Looks like a Vermicious knid to me…
Hmmmm…. So there is no consideration for function? The world is full of examples of beautiful objects that are functionally useless or deficient. Hell, look closely at those famous Frank Lloyd Wright houses and imagine actually living in one. They are totally impractical.
As pointed out by others, this fireplace probably sucks if you actually try to use it. Unless it is doubled lined, you will burn yourself on the sides. There is no screen or glass windows to stop sparks and control the heat and oxygen. There is no ash box. Just looking at the photo I can’t help but wonder how well it works for drawing in air, making sure all the smoke only goes up the chimney, and that all the heat goes out the front like a well engineered fireplace does.
It might function as a gas feed fire. Except that you would have to run the gas line down the chimney, which introduces all sorts of fire dangers.
So… this thing is really nothing but a piece of art pretending to be something functional.
This should make the list for next year: ((nice video))
#25 Really? There is a reason we didn’t develop eyes in our pelvis.
#29. agreed.
#28 It seems like the design provides good function. I assume it produces heat like what a fireplace is suppose to do. It can be positioned pretty much anywhere, takes up small floor footprint, looks fantastic.
Fireplaces are well engineered? They are terribly inefficient. There is nothing to suggest in this design that all of your critiques (which are good points) are not already there or could be there.
You know it’s a great design but it just looks different which is understandably shocking to some.
It looks like a clam with a huge erection.
The opening is almost as big as pedro’s mother vagina. Well she can accommodate the Fifth Fleet. But her butt is bigger. And some might argue, warmer too.
There is no way to control the incoming air or the flue. That is terribly inefficient. But my son is uncontrollable when he doesn’t take his medications. He isn’t too efficient either.
The fire box reminds me of pedro’s head. Nothing inside and just a lot of hot air leaving.