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Bathrooms In Focus – Mastella

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Design. People. Advanced technology. Over 35 years of excellence in bathroom manufacture. That’s why we felt it was a high time from an edition of Bathrooms In Focus on Mastella.

With Mastella the most important factor behind every production choice is design. Science and functionality are combined together in the initial design phase, to achieve reliability and beauty. These values are renewed every day.

Mastella - Tender LAK
Mastella - Summit 2.0
Mastella - Kami
Mastella - Smart.46
Mastella - Duetto

Furniture collections are created, designed and produced by Mastella to meet and surpass the multiple expectations and needs of the client. Space, storage, functionality, design, customisation and reliability. Values to which Mastella pays the utmost attention, emphasising design and construction quality in every detail.

Mastella - Vanity / Vanity Party
Mastella - For You Cristalplant Freestanding Bathtub
Mastella - Vov Cristalplant Freestanding Bathtub
Mastella - Anahita Cristalplast Freestanding Bathtub

Genuine works of sculpture, to experience directly. Mastella bathtubs achieve the perfect synergy between design and functionality with their minimalistic and ergonomic lines sculpted from technologically advanced materials.

Imposing or compact, free-standing or fitted, these tubs are designed to create an oasis of pure wellness, even in bathrooms where space is limited or there are specific architectural constraints.

Mastella Worktops & Consoles
Mastella Worktops & Consoles
Mastella - Smart.46
Mastella - Graf-In
Mastella - One-piece ceramic top

Design becomes eclectic in Mastella’s integrated washbasin tops and bathroom consoles. Sculpted by minimalist shapes and essential lines, they combine contemporary aesthetics with the most functional ergonomics.

Mastella - Kamus
Mastella - Bside
Mastella - Lumus
Mastella - Contend

There are times when the mirror becomes much more than a simple reflective surface. The mirror cabinet, by Mastella, features plenty of storage space behind the mirror doors, afforded by elegant glass shelves.

Numerous finishes are available: the warmth of wood-grain, smooth lacquers, or textured high pressure laminate.

Mastella - In-Line
Mastella - Rio
Mastella - Hi-Line
Mastella - Tend
Mastella - Vela

In the modern bathroom, a mirror with complementary LED lighting is a must: technology and contemporary design characterize the latest generation of mirrors.

Light plays a major role in these elegant and multifunctional pieces.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Crosswater

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Leading the way for luxury contemporary bathroom design, Crosswater offers an expertly curated selection of innovative bathroom products, including basins, WCs, furniture, brassware, showers, baths and accessories.

As with previous years Crosswater is releasing a slew of new products, so we at Bathrooms In Focus decided to take a look. Enjoy!

Crosswater Foile
Crosswater Lazo
Crosswater 3ONE6
Crosswater Limit

Crosswater have taken inspiration from the geometry of aerodynamics, the playfulness of loops, the timeless poise of basic circular shapes along with the harmony of shape and texture to bring the stunning brasswares ranges Foile, Lazo, 3ONE6 Lever and Limit. Each unique, all exceptional.

Crosswater Mada
Crosswater Alo Black Rattan
Crosswater Mada Mirrors

Mada furniture is inspired by a mix of Japanese and Scandinavian (Japandi), blending simplicity, comfort, cosiness and well-being in four popular colour options. It also offers a selection of beautiful organically shaped LED mirrors with colour changing and dimming features.

Inspired by current trends, the expression of colour through finishes and the ability to personalise the design to match numerous design styles and tastes, Alo furniture presents a collection at home in any bathroom space.

Crosswater Beck Basins
Crosswater Glide II
Crosswater Libra WC
Crosswater Libra semi-recessed basin

Whatever the size, cloakroom, WC, master ensuite or family bathroom Crosswater has the perfect sanitaryware to compliment your space with Beck, Glide II and Libra.

Crosswater Gallery 8 Gallery 10 Shower Enclosures
Crosswater Optix 10 Shower Enclosure
Crosswater Revive Multiflow Showerhead

Enhancing luxury within modern and traditional settings, Crosswater’s Optix 10 along with Gallery 8 & 10 shower enclosures offer remarkable quality and unparalleled performance.

While the Revive Multiflow showerhead transforms your shower into a wellness haven with 3 waterflow options Rainfall, Massage and Soft Flow.

Crosswater Tranquil Pillar
Crosswater Tranquil Pendant
Crosswater Tranquil Halo

Lighting can have a transformative effect but is often overlooked in the bathroom. With the new Tranquil lights collection, you can achieve the perfect lighting for the mood and style you desire.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Red Dot Awards🔴

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The distinction “Red Dot” has become established internationally as one of the most sought-after seals of quality for good design. With the Red Dot Awards 2023 having just taken place, we thought now was a good time to look at some product winners past and present available from Bath House. Enjoy!

Hansgrohe Rainfinity - RainTunes
Hansgrohe AXOR Showerpipe 800
Hansgohre Pulsify
Geberit CleanLine50

From AXOR we highlight the Shower Pipe 800, along with Pulsify & Rainfinity/Raintunes by Hansgrohe and CleanLine 50 by Geberit. All of these products in the shower area impressed the judges with their clear lines and excellent build quality. Paired with smart and functional solutions offering intuitive controls, they turn the bathroom into an inspiring place of well-being.

Zucchetti Beam Vanity
Laufen Palace
Hansgrohe MoonWake

Differing approaches, but all stunning. From Zucchetti The Beam, Palace by Laufen and MoonWake by Hansgrohe. With reference to traditional hygiene utensils Zucchetti incorporates the image of a bowl for their washbasin, while both Laufen and Hansgrohe use sweeping lines and gentle curves to merge the basin seamlessly into wide storage areas. While Palace is a reimaging of a classic, MoonWake with it’s single-walled thin structure is a modern visual accent in the bathroom

Geberit AquaClean Sela Shower WC
Roca In-Wash One Smart WC
The judges were impressed with the clear, elegant appearance of the AquaClean Sela shower toilet by Geberit paired with it’s innovative technology meeting the highest standards for ease of use and hygiene. While they thought the In-Wash Ona by Roca is a thoughtful creation that combines an appealing shape with a contemporary range of functions
Zucchetti Isy22 Brassware Collection
Hansgrohe Finoris
Hansgrohe – Axor Uno Brassware Collection
Roca Nu Brassware Collection
Whether it’s bright colours and playful shapes or minimalist aesthetics with precise edges that you’re after, you won’t have to forsake on quality. The Isy, Finoris, Uno and Nu brassware series’ meet contemporary demands for function and sustainability while offering flexibility of usage and multiple finish options.
Bette Lux Oval Couture Freestanding Bath
Victoria + Albert Amiata Freestanding Bath

The BetteLux Oval Couture fascinates with it’s combination of enamelled steel for the body and woven, waterproof fabric for the panelling. An entirely new visual and tactile bathroom experience.

The Amiata by Victoria + Albert skilfully combines Mediterranean charm and British elegance. Its subtle design stands for a highly developed bathroom culture.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Bette

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This time out we’re focusing on a German bathroom giant Bette. A family-run company, producing premium architectural bathroom components from steel-titanium alloy, enamelled with purely natural materials since 1952. Their thermoforming process allows them to create flowing shapes with extraordinary craftsmanship and precision.

Bette products are one-of-a-kind, their automated serial production line can handle more than 600 different colours with a broad range of dimensions to create an inspiring space in every bathroom design.

Bette
Bette Lux Oval Silhouette
Bette Lux Shape Freestanding Enamel Steel Bathtub
Bette Art Enamel Steel Bathtub
Bette Starlet Oval Silhouette Enamel Steel Freestanding Bathtub

The sophisticated designs Bette is known for are made possible thanks to their unique moulding techniques.

In order to give the rims of their products a minimal shape, 250 tons – which is the combined weight of 50 adult elephants – are applied to the material for around 40 seconds. This results in exceptionally narrow rim heights and corner radii.

Bette Air Shower Tray
Bette Floor Shower Trays Collection
Bette Floor Shower Trays Collection
BetteFloor Corner Shower Tray
Bette Floor Shower Trays Collection

A shower experience with no limits – Bette were the first to develop flush-to-floor shower trays which blend harmoniously with the bathroom. For a smooth surface that sets new visual standards. Their many designs, colours and dimensions also give you plenty of design freedom.

Bette Balance - Shells
Bette Lux Oval Built-in Washbasin
Bette Lux Shape Washbasin
Bette Craft Washbasin
Bette Lux Oval Couture Washbasin
Their washbasins will help you to create the very highest level of bathroom design. With lots of different variants, they combine aesthetics with function to create a bathroom element that compliments perfectly your bathroom environment.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Milan Design Week

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Launched in Milan in 1961 as a vehicle for promoting Italian exports of furnishing and accessories, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile is the global benchmark event for the furnishing and design sector.

Initially as a subsection of the Salone, the International Bathroom Exhibition became an exhibition in its own right in 2006, reflecting the evolution of the domestic bathroom, formerly a strictly functional space, into a dedicated sanctuary for relaxation and wellness.

In this Bathrooms In Focus we’re taking a look at some of the highlights from the exhibition. Enjoy!

Gessi - Milan Design Week
Gessi Jacqueline
Gessi - Perle
Gessi - Jacqueline
Gessi Perle Milan Design Week

Represented in the Jacqueline and Perle collections, for Gessi “haute culture” is the expression of the utmost of experimentation in terms of material, form and technique, which is realised in the enhancement of the creativity of those who design and those who forge its lines every day, infusing them with passion and manual skills of excellence.

Falper Milan Design Week
Falper Fontana
Falper Butler
Falper Minimum
Falper Minimum Integrato

Falper products are renowned for the high quality of the materials used, with a clear stylistic quality that is recognised internationally. This is accompanied by a constant orientation towards innovation, as again seen with their Fontana, Butler, Minimum and Minimum Integrato collections.

Acquabella Opal Quiz
Acquabella Chrea Fresstansing Bath
Acquabella Flow Zero Shower Tray
Acquabella Chrea Basin
Acquabella XL On Top Basin

Acquabella was born with the vision of giving life to your bathing environment. Their creations continue to arouse emotions and allow you to experience their full elegance and beauty.

In this tradition comes the Opal Quiz and Chrea freestanding baths, with the matching Chrea basin, XL on-top basin and the Flow Zero shower tray.

Scarabeo Diva
Scarabeo Diva
Scarabeo Diva

Scarabeo was founded in 1974 by Giovanni Calisti with the aim to manufacture elegant and functional washbasins and furniture. This tradition continues to this day. Among the new collections released at Milan Design Week is the Diva line, designed to complete and enrich the eclectic collection of Moon washbasins.

Zazzeri Q316 / Q316_sh Brassware Collections

The essential nature of design is expressed at it’s best in the new series Q316 from Zazzeri, a wide-ranging collection for your bathroom made of stainless steel AISI 316L.‎

This collection is in fact available in the brushed version of steel and in several PVD finishes in the variations Carbon, Charcoal grey, Bronze-copper, Copper, Cognac and White-gold.

Q316 & Q316_sh series offers the possibility to opt for a paddle shaped handle, flat and essential, or for the cylindric handle with a smooth finish which turns to be a full-fledged extension of the body of the mixer.‎

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Bathrooms In Focus – Hansgrohe Technologies

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People love it when products improve their daily lives and make it more convenient. Sometimes it’s the tiny, hidden technologies that make a massive difference.

This time out in Bathrooms In Focus we’re going to take a look at some of the innovative technologies included in many of Hansgrohe’s products that make their taps and showers a joy to use along with being easier to clean and more economical.

Hansgrohe CoolStart
Hansgrohe Finoris CoolStart
Hansgrohe CoolStart - Rebis E (Matt Black)

CoolStart mixers are eco-friendly, only running cold water when the handle is centred – whereas with standard mixers, energy is consumed immediately.

With CoolStart, your plumbing doesn’t get filled with unneeded hot water. The result: using fewer resources, CO2 emissions, and saving money. For hotels, the savings potential is considerable.

EcoSmart Metris Basin Mixer
Hansgrohe EcoSmart Hand Shower
Hansgrohe EcoSmart Hand Shower

Climate protection starts with showering, ecological action with hand washing. Hansgrohe showers and mixers fitted with EcoSmart technology use up to 60% less water than commercial products. EcoSmart reduces water and energy costs and saves valuable resources, sure to please everyone: private individuals, hoteliers, sports facilities operators, and many more.

hansgrohe Select Shower Head
hansgrohe Raindance Select Shower Head
Hansgrohe Talis Select S
hansgrohe Select Shower Head
Hansgrohe Select Shower Head
Pressing is often easier than turning. Select is the name of the technology where a small button brings a great amount of comfort into your own four walls. Whether in the bathroom or the kitchen, products with a Select push button boast intuitive water controls and a minimalist tap and shower design. 
Hansgrohe CoolContact
Hansgrohe CoolContact
Hansgrohe CoolContact

CoolContact technology ensures a thermostatic mixer’s case cannot heat up. The added ‘internal’ safety mechanism prevents pain or burning when you touch the product. Hands on: This premium water regulator is always nice to touch, making showering and bathing even more care-free, especially for children and the elderly.

Hansgrohe sBox Bath
Hansgrohe sBox Bath

The sBox bath ensures feel-good relaxation with many benefits: The long, easy-to-extend hose guarantees room to move and convenient use of the hand shower. Our specialists can quickly install this innovative shower hose solution. The system takes up little room, is low maintenance and is a joy for experts and customers alike.

Hansgrohe QuickClean
Hansgrohe QuickClean
Hansgrohe QuickClean

Hard water, dirt, cleaning agents: Your taps and showers need to withstand quite a lot on a day-to-day basis. However with Quickclean technology residue disappears in an instant, the aerators on QuickClean taps and the jets on QuickClean showers are fitted with flexible silicone nozzles, where dirt and limescale can be rubbed off effortlessly.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Laufen

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This edition of Bathrooms In Focus is highlighting some iconic collections from a true giant of the bathroom industry, Laufen.

For over 125 years, Laufen has been using the oldest malleable material known to man to make innovative sanitary products in their state-of-the-art plants.

What makes Laufen products unique at the first glance is that their Swiss design unites two major design trends: emotional Italian design from the south and the northern tradition of design precision and clarity.

Kartell by Laufen Sanitaryware
Kartell by Laufen Sanitaryware
Kartell by Laufen Sanitaryware
Kartell by Laufen Sanitaryware
Laufen Kartell Freestanding Bath

A complete bathroom project inspired by the iconic design of Kartell together with the quality of Laufen.

On one hand, Kartell, Italian, creative, colourful and iconic. The family company that has marked the history of design and revolutionised furnishing in the use of plastic materials for over 60 years.

On the other, Laufen, Swiss, rigorous and reliable.

Laufen Palomba Freestanding Bath
Laufen Palomba
Laufen Palomba
Laufen Palomba
Laufen Palomba

The design of the Laufen Palomba Collection recalls small inlets or pebbles shaped by the eternal movement of the sea, expertly transformed into ceramic.

All elements of the collection harmonise with one another as each one of them bears the signature of the Italian designer couple, Ludovica & Roberto Palomba.

Laufen - Val Round Freestanding Bath
Laufen Val
Laufen Val
Laufen Val Sanitary Ware Collection
Laufen Val Sanitary Ware Collection
The extraordinary design potential of Laufen’s revolutionary SaphirKeramik reveals itself in the bathroom collection Val. Simple architectural lines, extremely narrow edges and fine surface structures make the washbasins of this collection globally unique.
Laufen Sonar Freestanding Bath
Laufen Sonar Sanitaryware Collection
Laufen Sonar Sanitaryware Collection
Laufen Sonar Sanitary Ware Collection
Laufen Sonar Sanitary Ware Collection

The internationally acclaimed and eclectic designer Patricia Urquiola reveals the third generation of Laufen’s Saphirkeramik – she is taking this extraordinary material with great sensitivity into a third dimension – creating this new collection with the name: SONAR.

Laufen The New Classic Sanitary Ware Collection
Laufen The New Classic Freestanding Bath
Laufen The New Classic Sanitary Ware Collection
Laufen The New Classic Sanitary Ware Collection
Laufen The New Classic Sanitary Ware Collection

A collection of perfectly shaped innovations for the bathroom. The New Classic radiates the practicality of the harmonious form and combines it with contemporary style.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Hansgrohe AXOR

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For more than 25 years, Hansgrohe AXOR has conceived and manufactured iconic objects for luxurious bathrooms and kitchens. Developed in collaboration with world-renowed designers AXOR products come in a variety of styles.

We’re going to take a look at some of the products and services that make Hansgrohe AXOR one of the leading brassware brands today.

Axor One Special Editions
Axor One - Mixer, Bath Spout & Hand Shower
Axor One Mixer Tap
Axor One Shower
Axor One - Single lever bath mixer floor-standing

AXOR One. A bathroom collection so elegant, elemental and pure, it could be realised only through radical innovation.

Available in Chrome, Matt Black, 15 AXOR FinishPlus colours & 6 further colours with the AXOR Signature service, the collection brings timeless distinctive design to any bathroom.

Hansgrohe – Axor Starck V Brassware Collection
Hansgrohe – Axor Massaud Brassware Collection
Hansgrohe – Axor Starck Organic Brassware Collection
Hansgrohe – Axor Starck Brassware Collection
Hansgrohe – Axor Citterio Brassware Collection

For AXOR, a true icon must be placeless. It must inhabit different spaces, shape different worlds, express different personalities, all while remaining true to itself.

Since 1993, AXOR has collaborated with world-renowned designers to create bathroom and kitchen objects of such distinctiveness, excellence and forward-thinking that they stand the test of time and place. Eventually becoming AXOR Icons.

Hansgrohe – Axor Conscious Showers
Hansgrohe Axor Conscious Showers
Hansgrohe – Axor Conscious Showers

AXOR has developed AXOR Conscious Showers to make the ritual of showering both pleasurable and responsible. The showers meet specific requirements for sustainable water use while setting the highest aesthetic standard.

AXOR Conscious Showers personally express one’s conscious approach to the precious things in life.

Hansgrohe AXOR Engraving
Hansgrohe AXOR Labeling
Hansgrohe - Axor MyEdition
Hansgrohe AXOR Labeling
Hansgrohe - Axor MyEdition

Hansgrohe AXOR offer MyEdition, which along with other individualisation services, such as engravings and labelling, allow the ultimate in personalisation for both home and commercial bathroom spaces.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Gessi Origini

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In this edition of Bathrooms In Focus we’re taking a look at the new bathroom collection debuted at Salone del Mobile Milano by Gessi.

Origini – The New Shape of Colour.

Gessi transforms characters into colours and presents five triads associating them with as many personalities.

  • Warm – Cypress / Warm Bronze / Dark Bronze
  • Neutral – Greige / Finox Brushed Nickel / Nickel
  • Accent – Ocra / Matt Black / Brushed Brass
  • Materic – Coral / Black Metal / Brushed Copper
  • Nature – Agave / Black Metal Brushed / Chrome
Gessi Origini Brassware
Gessi Origini Brassware
Gessi Origini Brassware
Gessi Origini Brassware
Gessi Origini Brassware

Origini offers, for the first time, the inspiration and freedom to create the most intimate place of living, according to the personality of those who live it.

Gessi translates different personalities into colours and associates identified character profiles with five chromatic-material triads comprising various elements to be combined as desired.

Gessi Origini Showers
Gessi Origini Showers
Gessi Origini Showers

Simple forms and large shower head volumes work together with slender tubular elements. The circle is repeated harmoniously and regularly throughout the collection and finds a solution to the interplay of contrasts in the wall-mounted controls.

Gessi Origini Basins
Gessi Origini Basins
Gessi Origini Basins
Gessi Origini Basins
In the Origini collection, rigour and softness, lightness and solidity, formal cleanliness and decoration live together through the geometric shape of the circle.
Gessi Origini Accessories
Gessi Origini Accessories
Gessi Origini Accessories
Gessi Origini Accessories

Gessi have returned to the origins, to the archetypal forms and materials of the past with this innovative collection for a new level of contemporary well-being.

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Bathrooms In Focus – Accessories

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In this edition of Bathrooms In Focus we’re drawing your attention to some of the smaller, but essential, elements in your bathroom. Accessories have the power to give your bathroom a sophisticated consistent theme, be that by having the same finish or by following the same design language as the existing brass and sanitary ware.

Below are some examples of modern and traditional accessories in various finishes that can provide this finishing touch to your bathroom environment. Enjoy!

ecor Walther - Accessories
Decor Walther - CLUB Accessories
Decor Walther - Century Accessories
Decor Walther Double Towel Rail - CLUB
Decor Walther - Black Stone - Toilet Brush Set

The Philosophy Of Discreet Luxury.

These words sum up what sets Decor Walther apart from the norm. Their quality and design express this most vividly. The aesthetic language of their products is neither overtly trendy, nor historicized or overloaded. It is best described as timeless, but in an understated way.

Geesa Comfort & Safety Collection
Geesa Shift Accessory Collection
Geesa Opal Accessory Collection
Geesa Leev Accessory Collection

Geesa is a specialist in high-quality bathroom accessories with sophisticated design and eye for detail. Design is an important guiding principle in everything they do, without losing functionality. Most of their products are made from heavily chrome-plated brass, which ensures that they remain corrosion-resistant for many years.

Lefroy Brooks Classic Accessories
Lefroy Brooks - Mackintosh Accessories
Lefroy Brooks - Edwardian Accessories
Lefroy Brooks - Ten Ten Paper Holder
Lefroy Brooks - Fifth Wall Mounted Brush & Pot
Spanning a century, from the Edwardian era through to the modern day. Lefroy Brooks produces classic products that stand the test of time. Beautifully made, beautifully practical and remain beautiful today.