Bette: solutions for a bespoke bathroom

06/14

For steel enamel specialists Bette, made-to-measure bathroom items are by no means unfamiliar territory. Nowadays, about half of all the tubs, shower trays and washbasins that leave the factory are individual, made-to-order solutions. For both the bathroom planner and the end customer, this opens up totally new perspectives for bathroom design: a customised bathtub or cut-off corners that allow enough space for the bathroom door to swing open are just as feasible as an upstand that makes a silicone seal along the edge of the tub superfluous. 

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Designer Portrait Oliver Conrad: The Multitalented All-Rounder

06/14

These are good times for a crossover player: born in New York in 1962, Oliver Conrad is a craftsman, architect, producer, entrepreneur and designer. After training as a carpenter, he graduated in architecture and subsequently focused on various architectural projects. Then, in 1990, the "Oliver Conrad Collection" was launched – a furniture line that has been selling successfully ever since.  

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Nexus Product Design: Making Space Physical

05/14

Ulli Finkeldey and Kai Uetrecht think in systems and believe in the big picture. Under the name Nexus Product Design they are active in many different fields. But in view of the wide variety products they have created for the sanitary sector, the duo can certainly be regarded as specialists for this segment.  

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Designer Portrait EOOS: The Storymakers

05/14

EOOS is active in the fields of furniture, product and shop design. And even when Martin Bergmann, Gernot Bohmann and Harald Gründl have very different characters, they have one thing in common: For the Viennese trio, design is a poetic discipline and a cultural service to society. 

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    Better Bathrooms

    05/14

    For today, what used to be the epitome of run-of-the-mill design no longer seems to fit into any neat category: the bathroom. It unites more functions than virtually any other area of the home. Therefore waterproof lounge furniture, parquet and wall plaster, rain shower and fireplace all have to be reconciled with one another. 

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