Monolithic modern Nero Marquina fireplace with a linear flame and a thin gold line at night, a Michelessi vision

Since 1976 — a Michelessi vision

Modern frames,
the essential fire

Surrounds crafted by master artisans or by CNC machine: find the one that best suits your interior, or have it made to measure.

Vision 01 — From our design studio

Absolute black
laid on velvet

NERO MARQUINIA · CHARCOAL VELVET · BRASS CLASPS

Design vision: a minimal modern frame in Nero Marquinia marble with brass clasps, on a dark velvet wall beneath a single spotlight

One spotlight, one frame: a slab of Nero Marquinia, cut to a sharp edge and crossed by white veins like lightning, floats upon charcoal velvet, held by four brass clasps. This is our idea of the modern frame: take everything away, until only the stone and its shadow remain. A vision ready to become a project, on the wall you choose to entrust to it.

The collection

Reduce, lighten,
concentrate

Modern frames are Michelessi's answer to the contemporary home: fireplace surrounds crafted by master artisans or by CNC machine, where decoration gives way to proportion and fire returns to being the sole protagonist. No volutes, no friezes: clean volumes, brushed or satin surfaces, corners that become design. In this collection pale marble converses with burnished metal, stone with the white pebbles of the bio-fireplace, dark wood with anthracite: true materials, paired with the sensibility that comes from fifty years of bespoke marble craftsmanship in Aprilia.

Every photograph on this page tells a different way of understanding the modern fireplace: the column of fire punctuating an essential kitchen, the square of stone that lights up against a black wall, the horizontal frame running low like a horizon, the fire set into a wooden wall with its bench and its log store. They are compositions before they are objects: and for this they demand absolute precision in the joints, the finishes, the installation. It is precisely the craft of Italian artisanship that Michelessi practises every day, uniting the human hand with the precision of CNC machines.

Browse the collection and find the frame that best suits your interior; or describe your room to our specialists — its measurements, its light — and request a piece made to measure for your needs: the quotation is free, and the design is born with you.

Burnished metal

The column of fire in a modern kitchen

In a kitchen of essential lines, between the white table and the ribbon window framing the green, rises a dark, sinuous presence: the modern vertical fireplace, its burnished cladding curving softly around the hearth. The flame, framed by curved glass, climbs bright and washes amber over the brushed metal surface, traced with a fine texture that catches the light like dark silk. No shelves, no ornament: only the pure geometry of a column that contains the fire and returns it to the room. This is the aesthetic of the modern surround: reduce, lighten, concentrate. The fireplace does not occupy the scene, it punctuates it; and still, whoever enters looks there first. Michelessi pairs these contemporary solutions with its own experience in bespoke marble work and cladding: our specialists can advise the model best suited to your space, integrate it with stone bases and tops, and follow you from design to installation with the care of Italian craftsmanship. If your home speaks an essential language, the fire can learn it: ask us how.

Modern fireplace with light marble surround on a black wall, Michelessi modern marble surrounds

Pale marble

A frame of light on a wall of night

The black wall swallows the light; the pale marble surround gives it back. On this contrast the whole scene is built: a frame of stone with soft lines, rounded corners, bands widening around the mouth of the hearth like a wave smoothing out. Inside, the fire burns bright behind glass, its light drawing out the marble's delicate grain, stippled like fine sand. Below, the pale floor plate gathers the reflection and forms a threshold. The lens lets the leaves of a plant blur in the foreground: a touch of green that measures the depth of the room and brings it to life. This is the vocabulary of the modern surround: few elements, exact relations, material as protagonist. Michelessi's bespoke marble work shapes these volumes with a cabinetmaker's precision, keeping the warmth of the handmade even in the most contemporary geometry. If your living room seeks a point of fire that is also a drawing, our specialists can guide you through materials and proportions, to a design made to your measure.

Modern white fireplace with horizontal firebox lit and red sofa, Michelessi modern surrounds

Brushed white

Brushed white, a red of character

The red sofa throws down the chromatic challenge; the fireplace takes it up with elegance. The modern cladding is composed of white volumes with a brushed surface, stirred by a horizontal texture that trembles in daylight: a full upper band, the horizontal cut of the firebox with its dark frame, and below, a rounded volume descending like a prow. To one side, a ribbed vertical insert adds rhythm to the composition. Inside, the flames stretch along the ribbed back of the hearth, framed by glass like a landscape in motion. Beyond the window, snow-laden trees tell of winter: in here, the white is warm. It is the successful paradox of the modern surround: candid surfaces that speak of snow, and a heart that warms the house. Michelessi accompanies these solutions with its culture of material, the same that guides its bespoke marble work: choice of surfaces, proportion, finish, all with the sensibility of the made in Italy. If you want a fireplace that converses with furniture of character, our specialists will advise the most suitable model and composition.

Modern white wall fireplace on a brown wall with library, Michelessi modern surrounds

Wall composition

The burning picture of the library

The brown wall cuts the scene like a book cover; at its centre, the modern fireplace presents itself as a white picture with a moving profile, its ribbed lateral band like the spine of a volume. Within the dark frame, flames climb close together before the ribbed back, their golden light flooding the room. Beyond the opening in the wall, a library of oblique geometries shelters rows of books: a salon for those who love to read beside the fire. The lens sets the two protagonists in dialogue: the ordered knowledge of the shelves, the free energy of the flame. The white cladding, with its clean volumes and subtle texture, hinges the two worlds together. This is the lesson of the modern surround: the fireplace is no longer a monument but an element of composition, flexible as a piece of furniture, intense as a work of art. Michelessi brings to these solutions its history of bespoke marble work: true materials, studied proportions, careful finishes. If you dream of a wall uniting books and fire, our specialists will help you compose it.

Modern light stone fireplace with bioethanol flames over white pebbles, Michelessi modern surrounds

Pale stone

Flames among white pebbles

On the night-blue wall, the light stone surround draws its rectangle with one detail that signs its character: the diagonal cuts at the corners, turning a simple frame into a drawing. Within the dark mouth, fire rises from a bed of white pebbles: free flames swaying among the stones as in a spring turned upside down. The stone's grain, fine and luminous, frames this scene with mineral calm. Beside it, the grey fabric armchair and the vase of dry branches complete an interior at once spare and warm. The lens rests on the contrast: the exact geometry of the frame, the natural disorder of the pebbles, the unpredictable motion of fire. Modern surrounds live on these balances of rigour and nature, and here Michelessi's sensibility makes the difference: bespoke stone and marble work gives each volume the precision that minimalism demands. If this style belongs to you, describe your room to our specialists: together we will draw your point of fire.

Project vision: modern fireplace set into a dark wood wall with pale stone bench, Michelessi modern surrounds

Wood and stone — a Michelessi vision

Dark wood, framed fire, hills beyond

The glass wall opens onto the hills, afternoon light entering to measure the room; on the wall clad in dark wooden slats, the modern fireplace sets its fire like a gem in its mount. The black frame of the hearth holds full, living flames that play against the calm of the timber; alongside, the pale stone top stretches into a bench, beneath which stacked firewood adds its warm texture. The lens composes the picture: the plant on the side table, the leather armchair at the edge, the oak floor running toward the glass. Everything speaks the language of contemporary naturalness, where each material is itself and the fire is the declared heart of the home. Modern surrounds of this kind ask for balance among elements: it is Michelessi's trade, joining bespoke marble work with a culture of design and the hand of Italian craftsmanship. If you imagine your fireplace as part of a wall to be lived in, with seating and log store, our specialists will turn the idea into a drawing and the drawing into home.

Dark wood

A horizon of dark oak on the wall

Everything in this room is stretched out, horizontal, calm: the white tufted sofa, the wire-mesh side table, the rug with its watery motifs. The fireplace follows the same score: a modern frame in dark wood with horizontal grain, long and low, setting the hearth into the wall like a lit screen. The flames, generous behind glass, run along the ribbed back and cast their amber light on the pale wall. Two slim metal profiles cut the composition at the corners, the only gloss in a matt ensemble. The lens appreciates the discipline: no element raises its voice, and precisely for this the fire commands. It is the warm minimalism of the modern surround: rigorous geometry that never renounces the emotion of flame. Michelessi accompanies these projects with the attention to materials that comes from bespoke marble work: woods, stones and finishes chosen and paired with a sure hand. If your home loves low lines and quiet light, speak with our specialists: the horizontal fireplace could be your perfect sentence.

Anthracite

Anthracite and embers: elegance in grey

The anthracite grey of wall and cladding wraps the fire like a well-dressed winter evening. The modern fireplace is composed with rigour: a broad dark frame with a satin surface, the hearth raised behind its panoramic glass, and below, a suspended drawer unit in bronze finish adding function and line. The flames, dense and golden, fill the mouth and reflect on the ribbed back. Beside it, the white bookcase orders books and objects in its luminous cells, while the rug of coloured stripes lights the oak floor like an autumn field. The lens delights in the contrast: the severity of the grey, the festivity of the rug, the life of the fire. Modern surrounds know how to hold these registers together, which makes them right for the contemporary home, where every room is at once salon, study and refuge. Michelessi brings to these projects the precision of bespoke marble work, from the choice of finishes to installation, every detail made in Italy. If your style is urban and elegant, our specialists have more than one proposal to show you.

Bespoke

Your fire,
in its essential form

Tell our specialists about your interior, its measurements and its light: together we will design a modern frame made to measure for your needs, with a free quotation.

Modern frames,the essential fire

Absolute blacklaid on velvet

Reduce, lighten,concentrate