Lasa Idea Flux Bathroom Designs
8 July 2009
“Grace”
Spend a little time on Lasa Idea’s website and you will, if you’re familiar with the piece, surely come away humming bits and pieces of Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini, a sort of genius meets genius sort of moment. It’s because of the way these people can roll out an idea and then begin making one variation after another, to a point where it almost makes your head spin. Lasa Idea is an Italian company, one of those cutting-edge companies, actually, that can take an idea and produce an absolute blizzard of alternative conceptions, as shown with their Flux collection of bathroom designs.
They have started with the idea of a simple oval shape and turned that baby every way but loose. That simple motif has been formed into cupboards, mirrors, and shelves; and it has taken center stage as both wall-mounted and base cabinets. They’ve put it up, put it down, put it sideways, made it smaller, bigger, stacked, singular, and I don’t know what all. Then they have splashed it with just about any color or wood a body could imagine. Every Lasa Idea element is available in 50 gloss lacquers and 50 matt lacquers, as well as 10 different types of wood. Now, there’s an inventory for you!
And when they exhausted themselves with all the design variations on this particular line, they went to work on another line! It is truly one of the most astonishing companies I have yet encountered because of the wide breadth—and depth—of their designs.
What I particularly like about the Flux line is the way they have found different ways of stacking wall units, as opposed to simply installing a base cabinet, because it opens bathrooms to all kinds of truly innovative design considerations. But wait, there’s more!
I counted fourteen different lines of bathroom designs on their website, each of which has a large number of variations. We’ve featured their 2009 Flux collection in this blog, but to make my point, I’ve also included a single picture of their UNIK line at the bottom of this blog. And that’s more than just a bowel on a shelf; it’s a theme, and what follows, if you visit their website, is a bunch of variations. I guess that whole idea of theme and variations must be one of the oldest techniques there is in composing or designing, but whenever you encounter someone who really wails, it seems brand new—and amazing.
Joseph
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