Modern Bathroom Faucets from Lacava
7 April 2010
“Embraceable You”
One of the things I am always exhorting my readers to in these blogs is a new assessment of their bathrooms. A bathroom, if it is designed correctly, can be so much more than just a place one goes to get cleaned up in the morning. It can be a place where one goes to become rejuvenated, and one accomplishes this happy state of affairs by making the bathroom as luxurious as possible.
As I’ve made my way through cyberspace, I have seen any number of do-it-yourself bathroom remodelings that are really rather pedestrian, but those who posted them online are proud of what they have done, and many of those who comment on those sites are equally impressed with the accomplishment. And looking at the before and after pictures, it is honestly not hard to understand their enthusiasm, even though I do not share in it. The fixtures were stained, and the paint was chipped; now everything is new. But in the excitement of ripping out everything old and replacing it, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that if the new is substantially like the old, then you might just as well have saved the money and disruption to your household. Face it, a coat of paint and some cleanser and elbow grease would have accomplished essentially the same thing.
The other aspect of that, and the reason I hammer at it so much in these blogs, is that it is also very much an opportunity lost. When you remodel, what you should be doing is to rethink, revamp, reinvigorate, reborn-can you do that with a bathroom? But if you can, the way to do it is to look at it through different eyes, to see what can be done, in whatever space you may have, to make of it a place of unmitigated luxury.
And with that I can discuss the subject of toda
y’s blog because Lacava is a company of Italian origin that is located in Chicago and dedicated to the proposition of making every bathroom a place where one can, “Feel pampered…every morning…and every evening…” They make their own furniture in the USA, but most of their faucets and sinks are made in Italy. They’ve taken this course for pretty much the same reason I find myself forever waxing ecstatic about Italian designs. Europe in general, and Italy in particular, is a land of small businesses who have a long history of fierce competition, and you can see that in the many gorgeous ideas they crank out in an absolutely dizzying array of concepts and designs, and variations on same.
When I visited Lacava’s site I was absolutely blown away with the huge array of faucets and shower heads they had for the bathroom. I could probably do a blog a week for the rest of the year on their many products, by which time they will surely have more! But one of the faucets that particularly caught my eye is the one at the top of this blog, which is called the Embrace. It’s a gorgeous polished chrome faucet available as both an elegant curved single lever and the charming two-arm version. The latter looks like a heart, but what it really looks like from my perspective, is just the sort of elegance one needs to transform an otherwise pedestrian bathroom into something special, something of your own. Looking at a concept like this one, all I can think is that at last I’ve found a faucet I can get my arms around; but, hey, it’s embraceable, right?
Joseph
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