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Carl Kleiner and Attributverket show us how we should heat our homes in cool new series

Date
6 February 2013

Central heating is fun isn’t it? Any boiler anecdote is likely to go down a storm at a dinner party, no? Just me? Ok I’m lying but thanks to superb photographer Carl Kleiner and prop builders Attributverket a certain District Heating are making a play for a different kind of identity, and a very successful play at that. These intriguing images reimagine the mundane process of central heating in all sorts of odd ways, suggesting some very creative alternatives to the current modes of warming our homes. Why don’t we use red hot horseshoes to boil our water? Oh yeah, logistics and that. Stupid, dull reality…

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Carl Kleiner/Attributverket: District Heating

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Carl Kleiner/Attributverket: District Heating

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Carl Kleiner/Attributverket: District Heating

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Carl Kleiner/Attributverket: District Heating

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Rob Alderson

Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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