Picture Stories

A carved white lion relief on the side of an ornate palace stove.

Being asked to build a stove is a great honor and challenge at the same time. Sometimes you find yourself renovating a stove thrice your age, other times you design a wooden house around your previous work in the garden. Work with artists, cooks, carpenters, customers. Building a stove always gets the kids excited, but first firing it up moves everyone's feelings. And the first bites of delicious baked goods freshly made…

A tall brown speckled tiled stove with a firebox, set into a pale green wall.

In the center

Rebuilding something created long before my birth makes me nervous. Both out of respect and excitement. Hopefully the results speak for themselves.

A copper-clad stove wall in a wood-panelled room, with a dark firebox.

Copper covered

Copper, glaze and tile brought together around a firebox.

Carved cream tiles with fan and leaf patterns, joined by pale grout.

Japanese touch

A quiet room, a low stove and a few Japanese details.

A green sculptural stove in an artist's studio, beside a brick chimney.

A painters atelier

A stove for a painter's studio, built around the way the room is used.

A tall cream tiled stove with relief panels standing against a bare wall.

The old traveller

An old stove given a new place and a new life.

A pale tiled stove form with rough plaster, in a room under construction.

Simplicity & harmony

A simple interior, a free hand, and a stove that lets the room speak.

Cracked cream stove tiles with a carved leaf relief.

Restoration of the old twins

Two early-1800s twin stoves from the bishop's palace in Székesfehérvár, recorded, taken apart and rebuilt piece by piece.

Old farm buildings and a lawn, with a red car parked at the left.

Building a house around a stove

A garden stove becomes the centre of a new wooden house.

An old white masonry stove with a smoke chamber under a dark ceiling.

Kids in the oven

A stove built with room for the children — and for bread.