BATHROOM DESIGN
3 July 2008
"Dude… Dues!"
Speaking of bathroom design (YOW, my head! I’m getting the strongest sense of Déjà vu. Didn’t I just say that?). But still, as we seem to be exploring bathroom design in some detail this week, I wanted to make sure I shared a company with you I recently came across that is doing some really stunning things in glass. Actually, in a way, that’s like saying Tiger Woods hits good golf shots. Do you think? And glass, in the hands of those who are truly artists and unafraid, can be an unusually exciting medium. As I kee
p telling my niece who is studying glass art at Fullerton College, it’s a medium that is almost without limit, but you have to pay your dues. Craftsmanship without a true artist’s eye is, at best, yeoman like work. And art without the proper skills to realize the vision is really just a vague yearning.
All of which brings us to UltraGlas. What caught my eye was their glass shower door, but that sort of thing really just barely scratches the surface. Not that they want anyone scratching their surfaces (sorry!). But to return to the door, this picture does not begin to do justice to the concept. There’s a window on the far shower wall (it adjoins the bedroom) which is actually the back side of a large aquarium. What it does is give the effect of exotic fish swimming through the glass "waves" that are the shower door itself.
The blue bathroom countertop we’ve shown here has been designed to float above the countertop. It is supported on three sides in a recessed wall channel and on 
the front by standoff hardware. Couple this with the bathroom vanity, which has been designed to hang on the wall with no bottom support, and you have a bathroom with an almost other worldly look.
The other item I wanted to feature from their website is a black bathroom. To be honest about this, it does not really suit my tastes, and may not suit yours either, but what it is, I think, is proof positive that these people can pretty much do anything you want them to do. And in a nice bit of symmetry, that brings us back to where we began, with what we try to instill in the minds of young artists: master every detail of your art so that, thereafter, all that limits you is imagination. And if your imagination is broad enough, not even that will limit you.
Joseph
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