Fire within reach.
Wood, gas or electric · suspended · 5.0 on Google · WETT-certified installs
Focus · Dominique Imbert, 1983
“A distinctive, enduring design, rivaled only by the iconic Gyrofocus” — the maker’s own ranking of its own catalogue. The brochure says it simpler: fire within reach. One drop, three hearts: wood, gas with ceramic logs and a remote, or the Holographik® electric that needs no flue at all.
A 950 mm teardrop drawn down from the ceiling, its shoulder sloping to a wide slot of open fire. Bold and angular from one seat, soft from the next.
The hearth rotates 360° — the maker’s words: frame the fire in the direction of your choice. The room decides, nightly.
“Le feu à portée de vie” — the fire opening rides at hand height, 20″ off the floor, so tending the logs is part of the pleasure.
Photography: Focus
From the maker’s own book — the Ergofocus — wood, gas and electric — in rooms people actually live in. Tap the room to step inside.
Will it fit?
The maker’s numbers
The wood original’s numbers below. The Ergofocus Gas runs 17,000–54,000 BTU/hr on natural gas (11,000–42,000 on propane) with remote and electronic ignition, pivots 100°, is approved over combustible floors and wants a 10 ft 7″ ceiling. The Holographik® electric draws 100 W from a plug, pivots 80°, and needs no chimney at all.
These are the numbers we install to — every number above is Focus’s own published figure, nothing rounded by us, nothing guessed. Where the maker’s listing and manual differ, we print both. We’re an authorized Focus dealer — the maker’s own locator lists our Coldwater showroom. See the maker’s own Ergofocus page — brochure and manual on hand at the showroom.
The Focus family
The 1968 original — the fireplace the world knows Focus by.
See it →The teardrop — fire within reach, only the original rivals it.
You’re hereThe teardrop profile, flattened to the wall.
See it → Wood or gas · 360° glassThe seamless central — two sizes, 1600 and the Foster-commissioned 2000.
See it → Wood or gas · 360° glassThe glass ring you sit around — on wood, or gas with a remote.
See it → Wood · rotates 360°The 700 mm sphere — the deep-sea original, surfaced.
See it → Wood · rotates 360°The Gyrofocus idea at 1100 mm — made for tighter rooms.
See it → Wood · wall-mountedThe 1972 sphere — the strongest heat of the wall units.
See it → Wood · 1400 mm wideThe industrial blade — waxed steel, a letterbox of fire.
See it →Real voices · 5.0 on Google
“…the knowledge and guidance we received in determining size, location and finishing design was invaluable.”
Phil M. · Google review
“As someone extremely particular and fussy I was very pleased.”
Josh R. · Google review
Quick answers
The manual’s absolute minimum is 8 ft; the listing’s 274 cm (9 ft) is the supplied flue package — two different truths and we quote both. It wants 19″ to walls, 38″ of swing room if you’ll rotate it, and a non-combustible pad (R≥0.6) reaching 18″ out front in Canada. Send a photo of the room and we’ll confirm before you spend a dollar.
A factory-built HT chimney — UL 103 in the US, ULC S629 in Canada — on a nominal 8″ natural-draft flue at least 14 ft tall. The listing says 203 mm inside, the manual 205 mm: same 8″ system, quoted both on principle.
A WETT-certified crew — ours. The 145 lb suspension plate carries the whole fire, so the ceiling gets engineered first; then we hang it, flue it and balance the rotation to the maker’s manual. The annual sweep after that is one call.
What it costs
Every wall is different — framing, venting, gas line — so your price is real, not a guess.
Two minutes online. Photos help; the booking machine takes them.
Dan prices your exact install and walks you through every line of it.
Nick’s crew frames it to the maker’s spec, runs the venting, and leaves the room clean.
Or come see it in our Coldwater showroom — the espresso will be on.
Beyond the sculptures
Rotating three-fire drums and guillotine built-ins — seven wood fires live on the walk today.
See the wood house → Gas · RetrofitNine ways to bring a dead masonry fireplace back to life — the insert row.
See the inserts → Gas · Built-inLinears and traditionals for brand-new walls — the built-in house.
See the built-ins →