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The much-anticipated Pantone Colour of the Year for 2023 was announced last week and caused a stir as the gorgeous PANTONE 18-1750, Viva Magenta reached the design world.

Acquabella, a leading Spanish bathroom brand, is showcasing its award-winning Opal Quiz freestanding bath with a “Magenta Makeover”. The eye-popping Viva Magenta works beautifully with the unique shape and geometric lines.

The first-ever bath to be made from Akron, Opal Quiz offers something completely different. Akron is a composite material made of a mixture of resin with natural minerals and absolutely no silica. The new antibacerial Opal Quiz benefits from Akron’s extremely high-definition non-slip finish, is warm to the touch and is resistant to damage caused by impact.

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The Shower Lab

The Shower Lab has expanded its range of finishes for The Portrait Collection to include opulent Brushed Gold and an elegant Matt Black. When paired with new fluted glass and fixed panels, bath screens and sliders, it creates a uniform aesthetic that provides privacy and stylish discretion.

The Matt Black finish beautifully accents the new fluted glass panel to perfectly frame the bathroom.

Available in width from 1192 mm, and a generous height of 2000 mm – prices start at £1138 for a choice of 8 components and 10 glass finishes.

Bespoke options are available on request. Delivery is approximately 8 weeks from the order. Also available in Brushed Gold and Matt Bronze finishes.

Contact the Shower Lab for info on becoming a stockist info@theshowerlab.com

Products for children have to meet a variety of requirements: they must be safe, easy to use and robust. In addition, they must be easy to clean and hygienic. Products that are used in cots, nurseries, kindergartens or schools must be able to withstand high loads over the long term. HEWI products for children meet all these requirements.

Hewi-Kids washbasin

Washing hands and brushing teeth is much more fun when the wash place design is adapted to the needs of the little users. HEWI offers a comprehensive range of products for the washing area which, with its cheerful colours, virtually invites you to wash and splash around.

The small radii of the washbasins mean there are no corners or edges where children can bump into each other. The narrow rim as well as the compact design of the mineral CST washbasin allow even small children to reach the tap effortlessly.

The product range also includes mirrors, fittings and tumbler racks with hooks and accessories.

www.hewi.com

Revamping the bathroom or guest toilet doesn’t have to be difficult or too costly: matching bathroom accessories – from toilet-paper holders and toilet brush sets through to towel holders and hooks and soap dishes – can create an elegant, upscale look in the bathroom, whilst enabling you to display your personal furnishing style. Available in a uniform design, they offer the perfect solution for any furnishing style.

Timeless, modern and varied
Duravit’s “Karree”, “D-Code”, and “Starck T” accessories collections with their classic Chrome finish offer harmony and structure, with a timeless design for any taste and budget, the perfect bathroom accessory.

Matt Black is totally on trend and can create fashionable highlights in the bathroom. Whether a stylish wood optic or calming natural tones – accessories in Matt Black create a sophisticated, and timeless impression. Duravit satisfies all wishes in this category with its “Starck T” series, Design by Philippe Starck.

To stick or to drill?
It is not always possible to use a drill to fit bathroom accessories, Duravit offers the “Starck T” series as a self-adhesive variant and is especially appropriate for rental properties.

The size and price of the self-adhesive accessories from “Starck T” are also ideally suited as a unique
gift idea, e.g. as a house-warming present.

RAK-Petit, the designer bathroom collection from RAK Ceramics (created with compact spaces in mind), is offering new washbasin additions that promise to add luxury to bathroom designs.

Transforming this practical area of the bathroom into a stylish focal point, the RAK-Petit Round and Squared Countertop washbasins are the perfect addition to the en-suite or small bathroom. Standing at 340cm tall, the design of the new washbasins is inspired by the larger floorstanding models in the collection.

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Beautifully crafted from high quality ceramic, the countertop washbasins tap into the trends for curves and geometric lines in the bathroom. Minimal, elegant and functional, the washbasins are ideal for pairing with RAK-Petit Round and Square brassware to complete the picture.

Created for RAK Ceramics by renowned Italian designer Giuseppe Maurizio Scutellà, RAK-Petit is a collection of small washbasins designed with small spaces in mind. With minimal shapes and small dimensions, the collection includes deep-based washbasins that can be installed alone or combined with RAK-Joy vanity units.

Contact:

RAK Ceramics UK

01730 237850

www.rakceramics.com/uk/

CRL is offering a bespoke shower solution to retailers to allow them to give customers a choice of three elements – glass, hardware and large format surfaces. All options are tailor-made to fit.

Said to be a revolution in shower and wet room design, CRL Bespoke Shower Screens combine the latest innovations in CRL shower hardware with its luxury CRL Stone surfaces, for streamlined, hotel-inspired design.

Longstanding experts in shower hardware, CRL has supplied many of the top hotel groups and prestigious developments. Now, in a first for the industry, CRL is bringing bespoke showers to the market for retailers to offer their customers.

CRL Vienna

By partnering with local UK glass suppliers and fabricators, and in combination with CRL Stone, CRL has formed a unique partnership which takes the pain out of specifying showers.

Offering a completely new way of specifying shower enclosures and providing consumers with a tailor-made option, retailers can offer a bespoke solution with confidence, rather than a pre-configured shower from a single source that requires work-arounds.

Simon Boocock, managing director of CRL Europe, comments: “Bespoke doesn’t need to be complex and time consuming. With CRL, retailers can provide luxurious quality at an off-the-shelf price, helping to improve design possibilities with better margins.  Retailers no longer need to search around to pull all the elements together or stick to a boxed solution that isn’t necessarily right for the space.”

Designed for the perfect fit whether in the family bathroom, or as part of an en-suite extension in an existing master bedroom, CRL bespoke showers are ideal when working with awkward shapes and sizes in rooms such as in corners and under eaves.

Using high quality minimalist hardware for the latest in frameless showering, CRL can accommodate any design for all projects and all spaces, with popular finishes including Chrome, Antique Brass, Brushed Nickel, Matte Black and Polished Copper featuring across the different systems.

Highly durable and simple to care for, Ceralsio ceramic and Inalco MDi from CRL Stone is the perfect wall and floor surface solution for the shower area. In a large slab format that can be perfectly cut to size at the same time as the glass, with no grout lines creating a super-stylish and ultra hardwearing floor-to-ceiling wall surface. In fact, the material is ideal for the bathroom, being water resistant, heat, scratch and stain resistant and non-porous.

Offering shower enclosures to the market in a completely new way, this made-to-measure option from a market-leader gives retailers and designers the opportunity to provide a high-end, bespoke finish at a competitive price point.

For more details visit www.crlbespokeshowerscreens.co.uk or call 01706 863600.

For many, the question of how to take concrete, tangible steps to fight climate change still remains, with many seeking actionable tips and advice. To explore how experts in their fields are addressing sustainability issues, and to enable exchange on the full bandwidth of environmental challenges, GROHE X has launched the podcast “Together For Sustainability”. It aims to provide inspiration, stimulate discussion, and encourage action. With new topic-specific episodes released every month, the podcast will cover subjects such as water, resources, the circular economy, and the sustainable building industry.

Progress requires learning
Podcast host Marcella Hansch, CEO of the everwave foundation, has been dedicated to creating healthy oceans and rivers for years and her foundation puts emphasis on environmental education. The social business everwave cleans rivers and protects the sea from plastic through its use of clean-up technologies, fighting the waste crisis and supporting our ecosystems.

In the six-episode podcast series Marcella talks to scientists, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers about their fields of expertise. In line with the motto of the podcast, dialogue is at the heart of the new format. The goal of “Together For Sustainability” is to serve as a platform for sharing insights to create renewed motivation. Instead of doomsday scenarios, listeners are informed about specific topics, impactful solutions and inspiring projects that demonstrate how the climate crisis can be tackled.

“If you want to save and protect something, you need to know it. And if you know something, or you love
it, then you can protect it,” says Hansch about the intention behind the podcast and the importance of
education and dialogue as the motivation for progress. She explains the objective is “not to tell people
you did wrong things, but showing people to motivate them, to inspire them and to say, ’you can change
the world!’. If we work all together, we really can make a change.”

Launch episode: the ocean
The first episode of the podcast investigates the ocean and its potential for solutions to the climate crisis. Covering most of the Blue Planet, it is not only significantly impacted by global warming, but is also increasingly becoming an area of focus for new solutions at leader discussions such as COP27. Hansch and her guest, oceanographer and climate scientist Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck, who are both part of the committee of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, discuss how they aim to make a tangible impact on the ocean. From the digitisation of the ocean, and its importance for carbon storage and absorption, to providing knowledge for decision-makers and promoting education and engagement.

“My wish for the future is that we first recognise that we have a joint future. Second, that the future that we are going to have depends on our actions today and tomorrow, and that we should use all available information and knowledge, including that of sciences, to think about what the good outcomes for all of us are,” says Prof. Dr. Visbeck.

Listen to the first episode of the new podcast “Together for Sustainability” on the digital experience
platform GROHE X.

Saniflo UK – a market-leading manufacturer of pumps, macerators, and lifting stations – is growing its sales team with the appointment of Conor Reeves as National Account Manager.

Conor’s background includes more than a decade in the pump sector of the plumbing and heating industry, with experience looking after key accounts in both the UK and MENA regions, plus plumbing engineering. Conor brings a wealth of technical and account management experience to Saniflo. Based in the south of England, Conor’s remit will maintain and develop Saniflo’s national key accounts, driving strategies and activities at all levels of the business.
 
Conor says: “I’m looking forward to getting to know Saniflo’s national account customer base and building on some of my existing relationships. Being a market leader, Saniflo has a powerful and well-respected name, so I’m delighted to join a company known for its outstanding technical expertise and after-sales service. In addition, the wider SFA group capabilities stood out to me, giving me the confidence that we can provide a solution to any lifting station requirements our customers may have.”

Leading bathroom manufacturer Roper Rhodes today announced its partnership with one of the UK’s largest privately owned housebuilders, Bloor Homes. The agreement establishes the bathroom brand as the exclusive supplier of bathroom furniture upgrades, offering Bloor homeowners added choice and customisation.

Bloor Homes cited product design, quality, service and expertise in specification as the rationale behind the partnership, with Roper Rhodes also providing a well-rounded marketing and sales support package. With over 20 years of experience in the contracts and development sector, the agreement represents an exciting strategic next step for the bathroom brand, having recently introduced a bespoke design service to the housebuilder market.

Roper Rhodes will be offering a suite of design upgrades to Bloor Homes customers, including wall hung and floor mounted furniture, cloakroom furniture, mirrors and cabinets, and accessories, covering 120 Bloor sites nationwide.

‘Bloor Homes are one of the largest and most trusted housebuilders in the UK, and we are delighted to work alongside them. By enhancing Bloor customer product choice and offering opportunities for bathroom upgrades we feel the agreement represents an attractive commercial opportunity for both parties and we look forward to further developing this relationship in the future.’ Chris Vallance, Group Sales Director, Roper Rhodes.

About Bloor Homes The Bloor Group began building houses over 50 years ago and today is one of the largest privately owned house-building groups in the UK, building in excess of four thousand homes each year. We are known for our unique approach to building, only placing new homes for sale in carefully selected areas. Our locations are chosen for their premium positions, our designs are created from years of customer feedback and our materials and finishings are second to none. In all that we do we pursue the perfect place.

About Roper Rhodes Roper Rhodes Ltd is one of the UK’s primary suppliers of bathroom furniture and bathroom products. Over forty years of experience goes into creating each and every one of our products. Functional, stylish and seamlessly put together, our range incorporates contemporary and classic designs. Our development programme ensures we are continually updating our product range to reflect changes in style.

Features by Diane Larner founder and editor of Bathroom Review & Kitchens Review.
Diane Larner launched both titles over 12 years ago and has been writing about the bathroom and kitchen interior design industry ever since, publishing regular features across the two sectors.

HIX Event 2022 opened its doors to over 3,728 guests on Thursday, 17 & Friday, 18 November. The two-day show featured 20 design leaders debating the future of hotel design and 150 leading suppliers representing bathrooms, surfaces, furnishings, lighting, details and more.

Representing the best of the bathroom, surface, technology, furnishing and fabric sectors and the full scale of the interior hospitality space, major suppliers including Grohe, Laufen, Roca, Hansgrohe, Chelsom, Duxiana, Hypnos, Muuto, Ege Carpets and Table Place Chairs were joined by the best-emerging names like Marset, Moooi and Joe Scog for a curated edit of the latest trends and ideas.

Diane Larner attended the event and collated six inspirational bathroom highlights from the show.

SIX T O P   P I C K S   from HIX Event

Graff Designs

GRAFF Designs showcases latest ranges

GRAFF Designs exhibited for the first time at HIX 2022 and showcased its product portfolio & wider brand story to the KBB industry.

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GROHE Airio basin previews at HIX 2022

Returning exhibitor, GROHE, showcased a variety of ranges at HIX and previewed its new AIRIO basin, due to be launched later this year.

Ideal Standard exhibits landmark Atelier Collections at HIX

Ideal Standard showcased its design-led Atelier Collections marking the first time the bathroom manufacturer has exhibited at the show.

KUECO IXMO

IXMO – for the shower, bathtub and washbasin

KEUCO showcased a variety of new ranges on its stand, including its IXMO system, launched in June this year.

Bagno Design Bristol

Less is more with the minimalistic brilliance of Bristol

Bristol is an exciting new range that draws inspiration from the mid 20th Century.

ona Roca

Roca exhibited newly launched ONA at HIX 2022

The collection comprises a series of versatile pieces suitable for a broad range of bathroom settings.

Joel Butler HIX
Joel Butler

Joal Butler – Co-founder HIX

From last year’s theme of ‘all together now’ we felt that 2022 was all about great things growing, and the return of hotels,” says Joel Butler, co-founder of HIX.

“This feeling of post-covid recovery, next-gen thinking and optimism could be felt on the stands, in the aisles, the talks, and of course, the already iconic Mush Room bar. It was a fantastic few days.”



Ebru Bircan, Leader, Marketing Activation UK, LIXIL EMENA and GROHE

Ebru Bircan, Leader, Marketing Activation UK, LIXIL EMENA and GROHE

“Always a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, it’s a pleasure to exhibit at HIX. This year’s show was hugely success for us, and we were so pleased to return after the debut show in 2021.

Returning to our position at the front of the exhibition, we were delighted to welcome guests to our spa-inspired room set, featuring our latest innovations and collections.

HIX once again provided a brilliant opportunity to showcase our products and connect us with potential customers, allowing for tactile displays and genuine interaction that is invaluable when it comes to product design and networking. Immersing ourselves within the show, it was also a great opportunity to have an insight into the wider industry when it comes to innovation and design.”

About HIX

Hotel Design Interiors (HIX) 2022 is an annual exhibition for the hotel and hospitality supply chain. The event brings together the entire design and interiors supply chain, including bathroom, fabrics, FF&E services, furniture, landscaping, lighting, objects, outdoor, spa & wellness, surfaces, technology plus many more, with the designers, interior architects, specifiers, project management, hotel operators, procurement, consultants and developers involved in bringing the guest experience to life.

HIX will be back in November 2023