BATHROOM FIXTURES
13 August 2008
“Let Some Light Into This Room!”
You want some whiskey in your coffee and some coffee in your tea? What kinda questions are you askin’ me?
Sorry about that introduction, but I saw these pictures and half-remembered song lyrics immediately came to mind—which I have left in their garbled shape, so as to avoid getting a letter from some lawyer later on (man, ain’t the music business something else?).
This particular line of sinks and tubs is from Lavabo, which is an Italian company. They actually have a very full line of bathroom products, and the more I browsed through their website, the guiltier I felt about featuring only their lighted fixtures, so I’ve expanded this just a bit to include some of their more innovative ideas.
But they make my argument in two ways, really. I started this particular series of blogs because I was interested in what could be done with LED lighting, and a search for just that kind of product led me to Lavabo. These fixtures are made of polyethylene and lit up with an internal multicolor LED light, and it is something, as I say, that I dug out really just for the fun of it. For someone like myself who does not attend wild parties, I’m not sure that I would have a lot of use for this product, but others have made the argument that it might be just the thing for those who have tiny children who resist bath time.
But with this, as with so many other things, the idea is not necessarily to find at once the perfect bathroom design. It is, rather, to let the perfect bathroom design evolve, which it surely will, if you but open your mind to every possibility. How far out you eventually go is, of course, a personal decision, but the person who closes his mind to anything different simply gets more of the same.
And, in some respects, I have to believe that those who come up with those marvelous designs for what seems to be the prosaic—namely, bathroom fixtures—do so because they are willing to let their minds flow wherever they will. A case in point is the other items that I’ve presented here. The sink and cabinet—which, believe me, is only one item from an extensive, and innovative, line—is an almost letter-perfect exercise in minimalism. And for those who may have a guest half bathroom that is rather cramped with the traditional vanity and sink almost on top of the toilet, something like this may do much to open up that cramped space and make it, instead, elegant. The shower enclosure is another exercise in both minimalism and superb design.
But to return to what started me on this series of blogs, the thought of water going into a tub made colorful with LED lights is a stimulating one, but what would be even more intriguing, if it could be done, is to have the water itself lit up somehow.
Joseph
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