One of many coolest exhibitor cubicles was additionally one of many hottest at IBS 2023 (Worldwide Builders’ Present)… actually. Travis Industries’ quartet of “fireplace options” manufacturers – DaVinci Customized Fireplaces, Fire Xtrordinair, Lopi and Hearth Backyard – blazed on at Design & Building Week in Las Vegas earlier in February with an array of fireplace pits, fireplaces, torches, stoves and even fireplace sculptures.

Certainly as its tagline, “The Home of Hearth,” states, Travis Industries’ IBS sales space actually turned up the warmth, which very clearly may very well be felt strolling across the sales space for a bit. Its options, particularly the debut of the Hearth Backyard model, seemingly earned some fireplace emojis from guests of each IBS and the co-located KBIS (Kitchen & Tub Trade Present) – lately, after all, out of doors residing and kitchen areas are full of potentialities together with technology-controlled options.

The corporate focuses on what it broadly refers to as fireplace options, and not too long ago they’ve been red-hot, explains president and common supervisor Kurt Rumens.

“We have been in the home 45 years with wood-burning stoves, inserts and fireplaces. We moved into pellet-burning home equipment, after which we added gasoline to that,” says Rumens, who can also be the principal designer of the merchandise. “Since Covid, our aspect of the enterprise has grown 50%.”

The Home of Hearth is definitely the nickname of Travis Industries’ 11-acre Mukilteo, Wash., facility simply north of Seattle. That is the place its distinctive and opulent choices are designed, engineered and constructed amongst its quickly rising crew of about 600 workers (they’re hiring for a lot of positions, Rumens provides).

DaVinci Customized Fireplaces provides a lineup of gas-fueled, linear-style fireplaces that as its identify signifies might be custom-designed in single- or double-sided see-through glass, with sizes which can be certain to make a powerful visible assertion.

Fire Xtrodinair is a premier line of extra conventional wanting gas- and wood-burning fireplaces, together with fire inserts, which might go into new or present fireplaces. The can do up to date design, and fabricate the fireplaces with using instruments similar to on-site forging, says Rumens. Lopi supplies wood-, pellet- and gas-burning stoves and inserts.

Hearth Backyard launched with choices that embrace tempest torches, tempest lanterns, fireplace pit burners, full totally assembled trendy fireplace pits and fireplace “artwork.” Just like the {custom} know-how integration trade, Travis Industries has skilled a increase in enterprise in the course of the previous years of the pandemic as householders invested extra of their out of doors areas.

“We have been exhibiting it to builders for a few 12 months however formally launched it right here on the present,” says Rumens of Hearth Backyard, whose out of doors options are gas-fueled in the interim. He talked about they have been able to launch finally 12 months’s present in Orlando, however the firm was so busy fulfilling 1000’s of orders it made a way to carry off. “We have by no means seen the demand just like the final two-and-a-half years.”

New Hearth Backyard Model Is a Standout for Design & Selection

This 12 months, Hearth Backyard displayed its out of doors wares, together with one of the crucial visually gorgeous gadgets at IBS & KBIS, a sculpture of varied measurement cubes, every spouting flames. Supplies used for burner media within the pits can embrace totally different crushed glass (platinum, bronze, cobalt, black), tumbled stones and rock buckets.

“Now we have what I name ‘fireplace artwork’ the place should you have a look at that, it is uniquely totally different from something you’ve got ever seen earlier than,” Rumens says. “I research structure – I am not an architect, however I like structure. For instance, my spouse and I’m going to Europe and she or he’s taking a look at all of the work and I am wanting on the hinges on a door. Designs are timeless; I have a look at the proportionality too.”

Rumens notes that he is had a hand in designing merchandise for 4 plus a long time now for the corporate. “Then we now have this fabulous engineering and analysis crew to make (designs) three-dimensional, to adjust to all of the requirements,” he added.

For the Hearth Backyard, relatively than a standard linear-shaped fireplace characteristic, Rumens and the crew determined to enlist extra geometric figures and construct vertically for a novel aesthetic within the fire/fireplace pit world.

“We simply have a look at thrilling new dimensions to point out with fireplace relating to architects and designers,” mentioned Rumens.

Its Stainless Metal Hearth Pit Burner gained an award at IBS 2023 from constructing useful resource platform supplier BIMsmith, chosen by a bunch of architects judging merchandise on the present.

In the meantime, from a techniques integration standpoint, it isn’t unusual for in depth residence automation initiatives to tie in fireplace techniques – indoors or open air – if they’re able to being managed throughout the programming. The whole lot Travis Industries makes has an digital ignition on it, Rumens notes, which suggests it may be turned on/off through a swap or an app.

Working with the Wyze app, Rumens says, householders can management on/off on as much as seven fireplaces. Throughout the {custom} trade, he provides that the out of doors Hearth Backyard options launched with good residence compatibility to ship the on/off sign for integration, together with Control4 assist.