✔ 76cm Steel Fire Bowl — Scale That Commands the Space — At seventy-six centimetres across, the Pendal bowl isn't a compact fire feature placed discreetly in a corner — it is the centrepiece around which the outdoor space organises itself. The proportions are generous enough to sustain a serious fire, feed a gathered group, and hold visual authority in the garden from every angle. A bowl this size earns its position rather than requesting it.
✔ Polished Steel Pulley Arm — The Detail That Defines the Piece — The suspended pulley arm isn't a functional workaround — it is the Pendal's defining characteristic. Raise the grate for a slow, gentle char. Lower it toward the flame for a fierce, direct sear. The adjustment is made without touching the grill, without tools, and without interrupting the cooking or the conversation around it. A mechanism with the satisfying logic of something that was properly thought through.
✔ Suspended Grill Grate — Heat Control Through Height, Not Guesswork — Conventional grill cooking manages heat by moving food. The Pendal manages it by moving the grate — a fundamentally more considered approach that keeps food in position and puts the cook in control of the fire rather than in retreat from it. The distance between flame and grate is the dial. The pulley is how you turn it.
✔ Clean Tripod Frame at 136cm — Poised, Stable, Architecturally Considered — Three legs, a single bowl, a pulley arm overhead — the Pendal's silhouette is immediately legible and completely distinctive. At 136cm it stands at a height that works around people rather than beneath them, and the steel stability ring reinforces the tripod without compromising the openness of the structure. A form that looks resolved because it is.
✔ From Fierce Sear to Slow Char — One Fire, Full Range — The combination of open wood fire and height-adjustable grate gives the Pendal a cooking range that fixed grills and gas burners don't offer. The fire burns as it burns — the cook's variable is the grate position. Low and close for crust and caramelisation. High and distant for the kind of unhurried cooking that fills an evening without demanding constant attention.
✔ A Piece That Draws People In and Keeps Them There — An open fire at this scale with a pulley arm overhead and serious cooking underway is not background atmosphere — it is the occasion. The Pendal gathers people around it instinctively and gives them a reason to stay long after the food is finished. The kind of outdoor piece that makes the garden worth being in after dark.
