Milan 2016: bathroom brand Axor has worked with architects and designers including Front, David Adjaye and GamFratesi to create a range of unusual faucets (+ slideshow).
Axor started the WaterDream project to develop innovative bathroom solutions by encouraging lead designers to challenge industry norms.
The venture has previously led Nendo to create a surreal furniture installation combining showers with a series of lamps, and Philippe Starck to create the Organic Tap that uses half as much water as regular taps.
Front imagines flowing water as a "performance" with Water Steps
Axor presented its latest set of collaborators with a new mechanism that frees the spout of many of the usual technical requirements.
The brand asked the designers to present their own visions for the "meaning of water within the living spaces of tomorrow," prompting experiments with new materials and forms.
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"They said 'you can rethink what a tap can be', which was music to our ears as designers," said Sofia Lagerkvist, co-founder of Stockholm-based Front, which has previously worked with Axor on a shower installation created from a maze of copper pipes.
The studio's proposal for this year's collection, Water Steps, allows the stream to tumble through a series of sculptural bowls "using the flow of water as a decorative element."
David Adjaye's concept, Ritu...