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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 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 venting, and routing a vent through a stacked residential tower comes with real restrictions – structurally, and in cost. In many high-rise projects, this simply isn'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 apologize 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, 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 rigor the brand has applied to gas and wood for more than two decades. Realism is the starting point: Escea’s flames are developed from <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 venting or clearances required, 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. </Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>Heat is optional, too: output can be 5,100 or 10,200 BTU/hr to suit the space, and a flame-only mode delivers the full visual effect without adding warmth, 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 venting 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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<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 and beam-splitter glass. </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 six feet wide, suited to penthouses, lobbies and feature walls.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>Every fireplace is manufactured and engineered in-house in New Zealand, a meaningful quality signal set against a category largely produced offshore, and specifiers are supported from concept through to install by a dedicated Architectural Advisory team, backed by a full suite of trade and specification resources, including CAD/BIM files and technical documentation.</Paragraph>
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