With the Florakids line, Laufen has succeeded in creating an upbeat, lively, child-friendly environment that fosters a sense of hygiene at an early age. The rounded, attractive shapes are combined with bold colors and inspirations from animal and plant kingdoms. The result is an ideal place for kids.

For some time now Brizo has been working with Jason Wu, one of the preeminent young fashion designers. At first blush it would seem quite a stretch to go from fashion design to faucet design, but it was never quite the stretch it may have seemed to have been to those of us on the outside looking in.

Lasa Idea has created a total of five variations on this particular bathroom design motif in their IKS line. The IKS design motif itself, however, is but one of fifteen motifs they show on their site, and each of these has an incredible number of variations, totaling several hundred in all.

The one constant in kitchen and bathroom designs is change. All kinds of designers are wrestling with these very questions and coming up with all kinds of solutions that make every sort of sense. ArtCeram is very much a case in point. Theirs is not a vessel sink, but neither is it run of the mill.