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Black Celebration: all cats are grey in the dark

09/15

After a very long white phase, black is adding new accents to the colour scheme in the bathrooms. Regardless of whether it’s used with glossy or matt finishes, black is smart, neutral and looks great with other colours.  

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Photo: Bette

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Slender good looks: the new lightness in sanitaryware design

09/15

Products for the bathroom have to be sturdy and built for eternity. However, since the ISH 2015, it has been apparent that also a new lightness is taking hold in the bathroom.  

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Bathrooms for all Ages

05/15

Nowadays, bathrooms are not only about functionality and technology, but also about imagination. And to fuel this imagination, some of the sanitary industry’s most creative minds think up new scenarios and ideas for using and designing the bathroom. 

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Innovative study by Ideal Standard: How design and function impact our perception of beauty

04/15

Ideal Standard has unveiled findings of pioneering neurological research. The study finds our appreciation of beauty is subconsciously affected by a product’s functionality. 

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Pop up my Bathroom Atelier: trends and trade fair highlights at the ISH 2015’s well-attended lecture programme

04/15

The latest trend developments in bathroom design – that was the main topic at this year’s Pop up my Bathroom Atelier trend forum at the ISH 2015. And as announced, the programme didn’t just provide informative lectures and fascinating panel discussions; it also led to some intense debates and talks that went beyond the scope of the actual presentations. 

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Perfectly Normal! Bathrooms for elderly people eliminate barriers of all kinds.

02/15

Barrier-free bathrooms don’t exactly have a sexy image. However, it looks as if this image is about to undergo some fundamental changes soon. Because even today bathrooms that conform to the standardised definition of “barrier-free” have to look anywhere near as austere as they did just a few years ago. 

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Great Times Ahead for Bathrooms

01/15

New requirements and usage possibilities call for more space in bathrooms. Because variable floor plans and innovative sanitaryware can keep users independent in the bathroom for as long as possible.  

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Our bathrooms in 2034: New study presents four possible scenarios for the bathroom of the future

12/14

How will our bathroom change in the next 20 years? What can and may we expect from our bathroom in the future? Villeroy & Boch, Grohe and Matthias Horx's Zukunftsinstitut, dealt with these questions. This resulted in four visions that are based on the current mega-trends "Individualisation", "Health" "Neo-ecology" and "Connectivity".  

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From New York master bathroom to parents’ spa in Bad Honnef – an intercultural ‘bathroom trip’

12/14

As in all fields of interior design, there are regional and cultural differences even with the bathroom trends. We will invite you on a journey around the globe to the bathrooms of the world. 

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Bathroom with Sofa

11/14

There are places where life congregates: a crossroads during rush hour, a pub during a World Cup, the kitchen during parties. But by now it is time to embrace another hub of everyday life which, whilst it might not always be grand, is no less central and communication-friendly: the bathroom. Whether it is analogue or digital – the bathroom is increasingly becoming a nerve centre within our modern interiors. 

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