This Chiminea is made from steel with a bronze finish. The Chiminea has mesh all the way round to enable viewing of the fire from all angles. This makes this Chiminea an ideal focal point. The high flue on the Chiminea allows any smoke to drift away unnoticed.
Historically, chimeneas originated from the Southern Highlands of Mexico as cooking pots for food such as Mexican flatbread tortillas. Clay was dug from the riverbed and moulded by hand into crude pots before being fired in simple wood-fulled kilns.
This style of cooking and the feeling of keeping warm around a campfire inspired the use of these clay pots as chimeneas. They developed into pots with longer necks and a stand to raise them off the ground.
Our clay chimeneas are still being made in the same region of Mexico as they have been for centuries, drawing on generation of...
