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Frank Lloyd Wright, a house designer from the early 1900s, believed that fireplace hearths are actually the center of a house both physically and psychologically. He designed homes according to this philosophy. Today, we could still apply this symbolically. The hearth is not only the connection between the living space and the fire, which is [...]
In the days before centralized heating became common in homes, the fireplace hearth was the center of the home, the place where the family would gather on cold winter nights to read, share stories about the day’s happenings or simply enjoy the warmth of the fire. Although by strict definition the hearth refers to the [...]