No wood-burning appliance has a stronger heritage than the Vermont Castings Defiant wood stove. Named for a 19th-century steamship, the original Vermont Castings Defiant Wood Stove came to epitomize America’s resolve and independence during the Energy Crisis of the 1970s.
The year was 1975. With energy prices going through the roof, without an attractive or efficient wood stove to be found anywhere, two entrepreneurs set out to create a stove that was both beautiful and highly functional. Finely crafted from cast iron, the Defiant was the first wood stove to combine an artistically designed exterior with a methodically engineered interior, using new technologies for efficient combustion.
Americans purchased over a quarter-million Defiant wood stoves, as they rediscovered the common sense of heating with wood, a home-grown fuel.
Thirteen years later, in 1988, Vermont Castings ‘retired’ the Defiant, replacing it with modern wood-burners such as the Encore wood stove. A decade later the Defiant was resurrected and updated with aesthetics and features that again led the industry.
In 2010, the third generation of the Defiant maintains the product’s rich tradition by introducing the most advanced wood-burning stove on the market. The quality and classic look that consumers have come to expect from Vermont Castings is combined with the latest combustion technology, an innovative design that allows the stove to quickly be converted to burn in either a catalytic or non catalytic mode. In a sense, the Defiant Model 1975 has been 35 years in the making. The Defiant wood stove has always been Made in the U.S.A.
Due to its significant role in American history, the original Defiant model is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in our nation’s capitol. Each new purchase of the Defiant continues that proud history.
Fireplace Village is the largest Vermont Castings Defiant dealer in New England. Fireplace Village carries the entire line of energy efficient, clean burning Vermont Castings stoves. Fireplace Village provides installation, maintenance and repair service for all Vermont Castings hearth products.
