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<Title>Designing at height leaves little room for compromise. Too often, that means leaving the fireplace out, or settling for an electric one that never quite convinces. Escea changes that.</Title>
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<Paragraph>Fireplaces have always signalled something more than heat. In a lobby, a communal commercial space, a multi-residential or a high-end apartment, a prominent fireplace stands for comfort, permanence and quality, the kind of detail that turns a functional space into an inviting and considered one. But as residential and mixed-use towers climb higher and floor plates stack tighter, that detail has become one of the hardest to deliver.</Paragraph>
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<Title>Rising to the Challenge</Title>
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<Paragraph>Wood and gas fireplaces both rely on fluing, and routing a flue through a stacked residential tower comes with real restrictions – structurally, and in cost. Even where a gas fireplace can be flued through an external wall, a flue terminal on the facade can compete with the architecture. In many high-rise projects, flues simply aren't feasible, and electric is often the only fireplace option on the table.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>But electric fire has historically had a credibility problem of its own: flat, obviously synthetic flame effects have made it easy to write it off as a lesser substitute, something to apologise for rather than specify with confidence. There had to be a better way – and one that also brought real advantages specific to high-rise projects. </Paragraph>
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Developed from footage of real flames with advanced projection technology, Escea’s electric fireplaces are designed to hold up to close inspection.
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<Title>The Escea Difference</Title>
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<Paragraph>Escea's electric fireplaces remove the trade-off between practicality and realism entirely, engineered with the same rigour the brand has applied to gas and wood for more than two decades. Realism is the starting point: Escea’s flames are developed with holographic technology and <Link url="/journal/what-is-flame-map-technology">footage of real fire,</Link> so they hold up to close inspection, in a lobby or a living room.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>With no flue and zero clearance-rating, architects gain complete freedom to place a fireplace anywhere in a design, and to surround it in almost any material, from timber and stone to joinery, with even a television positioned directly above. In a tower, that freedom repeats: the same unit and the same detail can be drawn into every floor plate, keeping the design simple and consistent across the whole building. And where space is at a premium, and every inch needs to work harder, an electric fireplace doesn’t ask for the clearances a wood or gas fire would. </Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>Heat is optional too; output can reach up to 3 kW, but when warmth isn't needed, flame-only mode delivers the full visual effect without adding heat. That's a real advantage in glazed, well-insulated towers where overheating is more of a concern than cold.</Paragraph>
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Zero Clearance rated, Escea’s electric fireplaces can be framed directly in wood, with no flue required.
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Once finished, they can be surrounded in almost any material, with a TV mounted directly above.
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<Paragraph>Once installed, there's virtually nothing to service or maintain, an important consideration across a large portfolio with many units and owners, and day-to-day operation is as simple as the touch of a button or the tap of a remote. Cool-touch glass and the absence of a naked flame or combustion by-products add a further layer of safety, meaningful in high-density residential settings as much as in retirement-living, aged-care, and family environments. Models are compliant with IEC 60335-1 and IEC 60335-2-30, so they can be specified with confidence.</Paragraph>
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<Title>The Range: Two Distinct Looks</Title>
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<Paragraph>The range offers two distinct looks. The <Link url="/electric-fireplaces/le-series">LE Series</Link> recreates the dimensionality of a genuine wood fire, using Escea's proprietary <Link url="/journal/what-is-flame-map-technology">Flame-Map Technology</Link> to project high-definition footage of real wood-burning flame onto individually crafted logs. Mapped with millimetre precision, the flames appear to wrap naturally around the logs beneath.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>The <Link url="/electric-fireplaces/lr-series">LR Series</Link> takes the opposite approach: a patent-pending holographic technology, genuinely first for the category, reading as a modern gas or ethanol fire - a pure, continuous ribbon of flame suspended over crushed black glass, developed from real flame footage and refined with reflective side panels that extend it visually across the full width of the firebox.</Paragraph>
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LE Series: the depth of a wood fire, with Flame-Map Technology.
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LR Series: a ribbon of holographic flame over black glass.
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<Paragraph>Both are available in a choice of widths, from compact units for apartments and smaller rooms to statement models nearly two metres wide, suited to penthouses, lobbies and feature walls.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>Every fireplace is engineered and manufactured in-house in New Zealand, and available through a network of authorized <Link url="/buy-fireplace">retailers and distributors</Link> across the UK and Europe. Specifiers are supported by a dedicated <Link url="/architectural-advisory">Architectural Advisory team</Link>, backed by a full suite of trade and specification resources, including <Link url="/technical-documents">CAD/BIM files and technical documentation.</Link></Paragraph>
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<Title>Quick-Fire Questions</Title>
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<Paragraph><Strong>Can you install a fireplace in a high-rise apartment?</Strong></Paragraph>
<Paragraph>Yes. Escea’s electric fireplaces need no flue, so they can be placed in apartments, lobbies and shared spaces where a wood or gas fire often isn’t feasible.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph><Strong>Can the same fireplace be specified across every floor?</Strong></Paragraph>
<Paragraph>Yes. With no flue required, the same unit and the same detail can be drawn into every floor plate, keeping the approach simple and consistent across the whole building.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph><Strong>Will an electric fireplace overheat a high-rise apartment?</Strong></Paragraph>
<Paragraph>Not if you don’t want it to. Flame-only mode delivers the full visual effect without adding warmth, which suits glazed, well-insulated towers where overheating is more of a concern than cold.</Paragraph>
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