Barriviera Cappe is an Italian company that is proud of its artistic heritage. In designing their hoods, they have consciously set out to create a product that is “a combination of aesthetic quality and functionality, a product that cannot mean nothing to you, that will enter into your hearts.”

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.

One of the countertop materials that has really piqued my interest is Formica, and also Karran Edge Sinks, because Karran is the one sink that brings an air of unmitigated luxury to Formica. It is both unusual and gorgeous, and a number of sinks in this line have, to my eye, truly elegant lines.

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.