Lanterns & Table Fires

A summer evening on the terrace. Dusk has fallen, the crickets begin their song, and a small fire burns on the table between the wine glasses — a bio-ethanol table fire made of dark stainless steel, with a flame that burns calmly, without smoke, without odor. No one is sitting inside anymore. The fire replaces the centerpiece of the table; it doesn't replace conversation, but it reorders it.

Lanterns and table fires are the light sources that carry a table or terrace into the evening. More energy-efficient than any lamp, more atmospheric than anything else, and with a character that light bulbs can never replicate.

Two Manufacturers for Table Fires

höfats from the Allgäu region has redefined the outdoor fire world in recent years. Fire bowls, fire baskets, small bio-ethanol table fires, stainless steel lanterns with candle inserts. Everything made of stainless steel, rust-proof, weather-resistant, built for continuous use in the garden — and at the same time with a design language that doesn't drift into garden center aesthetics but remains modern.

Eva Solo from Denmark supplies the glass lantern version — glass lights with tealight or candle inserts, in a Scandinavian minimalist design, intended for indoors and covered terraces.

The Forms

• Bio-ethanol table fires — small, clean fire pit for the table, without smoke, without odor.
• Glass lanterns — for tealights, pillar candles, small eye-catchers on chests of drawers and tables.
• Lamps & candle stations — stainless steel, often with a handle, for mobile evening lighting in the garden.
• Large table lamps for bio-ethanol — standing fires for the terrace, up to one hour burn time.

A note on safe handling: Bio-ethanol fires burn cleanly, without soot, and leave no odor — but they consume oxygen. For indoor use: only in well-ventilated rooms, with at least one tilted window. No problem on the terrace. And: refilling is always done when the tray has cooled down — not into the burning flame; that's the only rule that counts.

See also: Scented Candles, Outdoor Kitchen & Fire Bowls.