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Duravit Living Bathrooms
Living bathrooms for living people
Duravit -- Interior Design, 4/23/2007 1:08:00 PM
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 Where there’s a bathroom, there’s Duravit. Who isn’t familiar with the blue wood grouse adorning so many washbasins, toilets and urinals in hotels, airports and other public buildings, as well as in private homes? To the layman it stands for successful, attractive design – to the expert for a bathroom styled by Duravit. Created by internationally renowned designers, manufactured with the utmost care and precision and offering superb planning flexibility down to the very last detail. Perhaps that’s why you’ll find the blue wood grouse all over the world – on sanitary ceramics, bathroom furniture and accessories that testify to a standard of design and quality that is anything but run-of-the-mill. This high standard – on the part of architects, bathroom planners and users – is also reflected in the remarkable, individual architecture of the buildings we would like to present to you in this brochure. They all have one thing in common: a bathroom styled by Duravit.Established in 1817 Almost 200 years of bathroom history. It all begins in 1817, when George Friedrich Horn establishes an earthenware factory in Hornberg in the Black Forest. In 1842 the manufacture of tableware is extended to encompass sanitaryware products. The small earthenware factory has in the meantime become a global organisation that today produces sanitary ceramics, bathroom furniture, baths and spa products for dream bathrooms made by Duravit as well as products for the public and semi-public sectors. Today, the company employs 2,800 Duravit staff at eight production locations and in more than 60 countries around the world who translate the idea of "Living Bathrooms" into tangible reality. Networking Design comes home. Exceptional in form and content: the new Duravit Design Centre in Hornberg. The new trapeze-shaped building with its distinctive giant toilet as an observation platform – designed by French star designer Philippe Starck – is leading the Duravit brand into a whole new dimension. Superbly presented, individually conceived exhibition areas, including six in-house test bathrooms, inspire visitors from around the globe: "Living Bathrooms" as conceived by Duravit. At the same time, the Duravit Design Centre is a magnet for all sanitaryware dealers, architects and planners. The Duravit Design Center and Showrooms At the service and training centre featuring state-of-the-art technology, they are not only introduced to the Duravit product range, but also receive detailed advice and solutions for sophisticated bathroom design and spa concepts. This not only applies to Hornberg in the Black Forest: all over the world, Duravit showrooms and flagship stores attract an interested public. Whether in Meißen/Germany, Cairo/Egypt, Paris/France or Shanghai/China. Milestones in Sanitaryware 1987 sees "design conquer the bathroom" - thanks to Duravit. It is the start of a series of successes that goes on to see Duravit become one of the leaders in the sanitaryware industry. And establishes the company as an innovator whose influence is felt throughout the worlds of sanitaryware products and sanitaryware design. Initially with sanitary ceramics, later with bathroom furniture, accessories, baths and wellness creations - complete living bathrooms, from Duravit. Many of the products and bathroom ranges featured technical breakthroughs as well as highly innovative design. Now they have become bathroom milestones, often imitated but never matched – and every bit as modern as the day they were launched. Because good design doesn't age. It becomes classic.
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The programmatic concepts of the EOOS designer group reinvent everyday objects.
Pritzker prizewinner Lord Norman Foster is one of the most illustrious architects worldwide.
The Italian avant-gardist Massimo Iosa Ghini has made his name as a designer for Alessi and Ferrari.
Michael Graves has received a number of academic accolades and major prizes. He is famous for his Alessi kettle.
The maxim of architect and designer Frank Huster is the function, from which the form derives almost as a matter of course.
The client portfolio of designer James Irvine features companies such as Canon, Toshiba and Magis.
Winners of several awards, including for their work for Loewe and Lamy, are the Phoenix Design team.
Jochen Schmidden playfully and effortlessly combines pioneering design and total wellbeing.
Since 1984, Sieger Design has created countless design classics for Duravit – and reaped just as many design awards.
Philippe Starck needs no introduction. Lemon squeezers, TVs and whole houses: Starck simply does it and does it ingeniously.
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