Key trends in bathrooms by Cheryl Gurner, Creative Director, Bathrooms International:
“I sense a new style coming in, which I’m calling Glam-Chic! It’s a culmination of glamour and elegance, but with a new contemporary sophistication.
It’s been growing underground for some time; it started with the vintage revival in fashion and has gone on to advocate and re-appreciate great design in the home from decades past.
At the same time, we’ve been living in a market flooded with minimalism, which has lacked a degree of femininity; this new mood is softer, it allows the different issues to work more comfortably together.
Gold is returning with a vengeance – but soft golds and bronzes; this will draw on black and white with gold; then add to that, Rhodium Silver and you have a new level of sophistication.
Rhodium plated sterling silver takes the white of silver down, to leave a finish that is somewhere between the blue of chrome and the soft brown of nickel but doesn’t tarnish.
All new homes will be rated on their green credentials from June 2008, with a measure code for sustainable homes, so showers will increasingly be the first priority, and not just for spatial issues.â€
Featured here is the Papillon Basin, available in gold, weathered or white bronze; it measures 43cm x 29.5cm x 15cm high (17″ x 11 5/8″ x 6″ high) made from solid polished bronze.
White bronze finish is £1,931 exc VAT.
Golden bronze finish is £2,023 exc VAT.
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