Matteo Thun Collaborates with Rapsel, Art Museum Applaudes

The Philadelphia Art Museum acquired the Lavasca Mini for its permanent contemporary design collection in 2008.

Laurel Petriello -- Interior Design, 3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM

Thun's Lavasca Mini bathtub for Rapsel

The latest work of art to grace the gallery space of the Philadelphia Art Museum is not a rare canvas, a modern sculpture, or a larger-than-life installation. It is, in fact, a bathtub.

Applauded as an “innovative use of technology, material, and organic spherical shape as paramount to Bernini’s boat fountain in Rome” by European design curator, Dr. Kathryn Hiesinger, the museum welcomes Matteo Thun’s Lavasca Mini tub in black matte to its permanent contemporary design collection.


Thun's Lavasca Mini bathtub for Rapsel

Completed in 2008 for Milan-based K/B manufacturer Rapsel, the vessel weighs in at 440 pounds and was produced using a composite material called Cristalplant. The product combines art with inventive and functional design for the bath environment.

Eager to maintain their product design success, Thun and Rapsel have teamed up once again to launch a new concept in luxury plumbing: the Invisible Bath. Employing his previously patented invisible drain design, Thun goes one step further. The Invisible Bath system visually retreats into its interior space giving the room an open, clean aesthetic. The design is currently in production in Milan.


Thun's Invisible Bath for Rapsel

Images courtesy of Rapsel.