Medusa and Curval Radiators by Irsap
30 June 2009
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
If you’re like me you are either still doing the Spring clean up in your yard or have just finished it and are now contemplating some cold ones and a BBQ. So, the thought of a heater just has to be an “are you kidding me” idea. But think about it. You don’t fix the roof when it’s leaking, right? And in the middle of the winter with the wind howling round your door just has to be a poor time to think about installing a heater. So, really now, put the “cold one” down and listen for a minute. We’re talking about heaters now. In the summer. When it makes total sense to think about the upcoming winter and make the appropriate preparations.
Constant readers of these blogs know that I am always complaining about our small bathrooms and kitchen, but the house itself is fairly large, and heating it in the winter months is an expensive proposition, as it is for most of us, I suspect.
Some of us have central heating, but that only makes sense for some of us. Those with small children running about the house are going to use that option—and should. But what do you do when the kids are either grown or gone? I like to flatter myself that I am doing wondrous things when I read my many books on obscure subjects, while my wife watches TV in another room, but regardless of the difference in the actual value of the two activities, the one thing they have in common is that both of them involve simply sitting. So, we have, at best, two rooms we need to heat. And quite often when we’re watching a movie together, only one. So, why heat the whole house? Hence, space heaters. But who wants to look at them in the summer months when they’re not in use? So every summer I put them up in the attic; every winter I get them down.
And with that we can discuss some of the slickest space heaters I’ve ever seen, namely, the Medusa and Curval radiators for the house by Irsap. They have more ideas than I am going to be able to cover with this blog, but the one thing all of their many designs have in common is this: none of them really looks like a space heater, but all of them are. And what that does for a room décor is nothing short of astounding.
Irsap is an Italian company that has taken simple, stodgy radiators into a new realm altogether, and in the process transformed them into something that can only be described as wall art. The Medusa radiator is a large circle filled with gently waving, intersecting lines that look like nothing more than a piece of modern art. And the same can really be said for the other design we’ve featured here, the Curval. With its wonderful undulating waves it looks like just about anything but what it is—a radiator. And, just to add to the ease with which it can be accommodated in your home, it comes in four different sizes.
Had I but one of these in every room, I would no longer have to schlep the heaters out every winter. It’s summer now, but for me it’s always tainted somewhat by the nagging thought that it will soon be winter and time for the yearly heater schlepping. The Bard’s right, you know. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
Joseph
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