Modern Italian fireplace design is clean, sparse, and often geometric and simple. This contemporary fireplace design is ideal for apartments, houses, bars, restaurants and offices. For all products their products Montegrappa developed large variety of creative claddings. Mostly they done in combination of different kinds of marble and wood with protective varnish. Many modern fireplaces use gas for fuel because not only do you get the warmth of the flame and the look of the fire, you do so without having the smell of smoke and a lot of the dust that is typically associated with a wood burning fireplace.