Hello tuffkins20.
Try Zephyr.
http://zephyronline.com/
They make a great product and have many styles and price points from which to choose.

The best of luck to you!
~LMD

Thank you. I did check them out but they don't have the pendant options

Those kinds of hoods are marketing jokes, not real appliances. They are for people who never cook and don't really care about cleaning because someone else does it.

@Patricia: It is from a web search and is of a chimney hood. Let me check them out.

@Sophie: The island hoods that I am checking out have auto clean functions where you need to change the filter after a certain period of time. I must add that this is for a second chimney over an induction hob where reduced to minimal cooking will be done. Hence I am assuming that cleaning and suction will be also very reduced. The reason why I am looking for a nice pendant chimney hood is so that I might be able to do without the lights over the island or just use some recessed ones with a pendant chimney. This is what I love but can't afford http://en.falmec.com/Products/COLLECTIONS/Mirabilia

The other name for a range hood is a ''vent hood''. A pendant without any ducting doesn't fulfill the primary mission of a vent hood. It has zero actual functional capture area, and no removal of any of the cooking byproducts of heat, steam, smoke, and odors. It is right in the middle of the natural path of the effluent though, so it will get a greasy dirty film over all of those little crystal pieces. Who's gonna handwipe all of that with 409 every week to remove all of that mung?

Are you wanting to create an actual functional food preparation space or a stage set that only microwaves leftover takeout?

It is not the inside vent I am concerned about cleaning but the actual crystal part. To save money I would go with a simple hood fan and some great pendant lights .

Sophie, Patricia you are right cleaning the crystals would be a hell of a job. Hence I would like to look at designs like the other pic I attached which is I believe from the e.ion range of Falmec.

As I have mentioned before this is a second chimney. The primary chimney hood is above my gas job in the kitchen countertop and is the main and daily area for cooking. This is the secondary area which I plan to use for some quick heating, occasional stir fry etc.

The pendant chimneys that I have come across in brands like Elica and Falmec do not require ducting. The filter needs to be changed every 6 months or more. With my kind of usage I am assuming I would need to change it even later.

What I am looking for is different brands which have pendant chimneys. Right now I am only aware of Elica and Falmec. I know Siemens and Bosch don't have it. Siemens has 2 models which are like a flat rectangular panel to be attached to the ceiling or false ceiling. But the cost is same as the Falmec chimney.

My only respite may be the cylindrical Isola chimney models from Faber or even Hafele which are ip within budget.

I meant gas hob