Bruegel Fireplace

A large custom tiled fireplace in a modern style, combining geometric relief tiles and a panoramic mural based on Pieter Bruegel The Elder’s painting ‚Winter Landscape with Bird Trap‘.

Initially the clients had planned to clad the body of their fireplace with talcomagnesite (soapstone), so it was prepared exactly for this material: the fireplace looked like a parallelepiped and took up a good part of a rather large room as a huge rectangular mass.

However, the love for warm spaces and classic paintings prevailed, so after seeing a sketch of a similar custom tiled fireplace in our Design section, the client contacted our studio.

At that moment we had just returned from a trip to Madrid, where we visited an exhibition of five representatives of the Breughel dynasty at the Gaviria Palace. So memories of the wonderful smoky miniatures by Pieter Bruegel the Elder were alive and inspired a large panoramic panel based on one of his most famous works, which we were just lucky enough to see in the original.

The Custom tiled fireplace turned out to be laconic and its mural really takes the centre stage, becoming the focal point not only of the fireplace, but of the living room as a whole.