Floor loading
As for the Italian marble Lego furniture, as this recent post points out, you really need to consider floor loading.
The 100% Design Show is all about innovation. This year there's a strong emphasis on things pretending to be other things, and furniture made out of stuff you wouldn't normally expect it to be made out of. Some of it's even quite comfortable... App One Design App One don't make apps, which is confusing in itself, but rather …
"it reads as if they've varnished the oak with yachts..."
You've never heard of yacht varnish? It's a thing.
<tangent> I bought a tin of it years ago to use on the parquet floor but didn't get round to doing the job for a long time. Eventually I came to use it, levered off the spring clips holding the lid down & the lid blew off with quite a bang.</tangent>
Isn't it about time we were allowed to shoot anyone that called themselves 'a designer' but who lacked the wit to perform basic structural calculations, or work to a coherent design brief?
Read a FB post from a friend about some twat who'd invented a thin (widthways) plug (interesting idea, only suitable for low power applications and way too mechanically complex to be of much use for long) in response to the question 'why is this plug 10mm thick? the response was 'well the macbook air is 10mm thick and thats the definition of thin...
at that point i stopped surfing the net and went looking for a fucking gun.
The local showroom have their display model switched on during opening hours. They reckon the approximately 1 litre water reservoir needs filling about once a week - say 8 hours a day for 6 days = 20ml/hour.
In contrast it appears that a person possibly loses up to 800ml of water a day by exhaling and perspiration - about 30ml/hour
This suggests that there will be insignificant humidity added by the fire's mist.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-water-does-a-person-lose-in-a-day-through-breathing
I went and bought one this afternoon - I'll be able to do measurements in a couple of weeks' time.
"Unfortunately I'm so far behind the curve that none of my fireplaces has a water supply."
Mine does!!! There used to be a back boiler behind the gas fire and the pipework is still in place. The water supply for the bathroom runs up the side of the chimney breast. A handy void to drop a bit of cat5e down! I'm all prepared to welcome our new water powered flaming overlords and they can even share my network connection.
Thanks for the heads up.
The Dimplex Aqua-Myst range of fires has a couple of models without heaters that look good for SFX applications. They have come a long way from a rotating fan and an electric light bulb. The water mist technology is used in films to create a convincing controllable inferno effect.
https://youtu.be/NPuLJ6sk0Yc
The link to the page is http://www.dimplex.co.uk/believe/index.htm
Looked at the technology last year for Halloween - now the Silverton looks about right for this year's display. A tad expensive but can be amortised over a good many years.
http://www.dimplex.co.uk/products/fires_surrounds/Opti-myst/silverton/index.htm
"I think the internet is one of those passing fads," he confided. He has such disdain for the web that he has threatened to close down The Register if I write about his company"
This is marketing genius. This guy knows how to guarantee publicity. Don't anyone dare go look at his website, you hear?
That domain name couldn't have been cheap, either.