Coffee table with a built-in firepit

Planika, a European furniture company that specializes in fancy fire pits, sells coffee tables that have built-in fire pits, so you can sit around a cozy flame without being out in the cold. You could also think of it as a fireplace alternative. This one’s called Groundfloor, and there’s no price listed on the product page, but I’m assuming it’s probably pretty expensive.

Planika [via NotCot]

1. [Haakon IV]

   http://www.planikausa.com/how_it_works

   Planika Fires use a special liquid FANOLA®. As a result, the fire is free of smoke or smell. Having been thoroughly tested, the liquid received a positive opinion of specialists from the Environmental Toxicology Department of the National Institute of Hygiene as regards its safety for people and the environment with reservation of use in accordance with designation, label instructions and operations manual. FANOLA® is a biologically clean product of plant origin, which has undergone rectification three times. It constitutes a wholly renewable source of energy. Burning FANOLA® is not accompanied by fumes or smell. Only water vapour and CO2 are emitted – in proportions similar to those contained in the air exhaled by humans.

   and later, it says that FANOLA® is a “special liquid based on alcohol”. I suppose it must have some additive so that it has some color like a wood flame.

2. [dculberson]

   s/”probably pretty expensive”/”almost certainly extraordinarily expensive”

   Perhaps it’s intended for outdoors?

3. [coop]

   @4 – Yes? and your point would be? Are you not willing to Die For Your Art?
   

   Actually, giving it more than a second of thought, it probably burns denatured ethanol. And yes, that produces CO as well. And no, it’s not designed for outdoors.

   coop

4. [toxonix]

   Its probably MDF board with black walnut veneer glued to it.
   I hate designer furniture which doesn’t provide me with the luxury of wasting large pieces of expensive hardwood.
   They recommend Fanola as fuel, which is ethanol based and produces water vapor and CO2 when burned.

   http://www.fanola.com/

5. [Ito Kagehisa]

   A cup and a half of petrol and any wooden coffee table – voila! DIY version!

6. [zikman]

   ew, where would all the smoke go?

7. [Anonymous]

   OMG, my kids would love this!

8. [coop]

   Probably white gas, or similar that burns w/o producing smoke.

   It’s a bit like a giant sterno burner (sterno on steroids).

9. [Fernando]

   Naphtha (white gas) when burned produces carbon monoxide. If you burn this in an enclosed area, you can die.

   Here’s the MSDS.

10. [philipb]

    Perfect for an IKEA hack. I’d start with the Ramvik coffee table and laminate from the local HD/Lowes, grab a vase from IKEA homewares & start cutting. For flames I would build a completely non-toxic silk unit similar to this guy’s:

    http://home.comcast.net/~mhios/hothead/index.html
    http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10103719