Bathroom Design Essentials for Summer 2019
Margaret Talbot, marketing manager for VitrA bathrooms in the UK looks at top bathroom design ideas for Summer 19. The bathroom continues to evolve from a purely functional space to …
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VitrA launches VitrA Academy
VitrA has launched a new online learning site, VitrA Academy which is designed to be an unbeatable professional resource for retailers, installers, architects and designers. VitrA is one of the …
VitrA launch WC with Built-In Bidet
WC’s that have a built-in bidet washing function have been used throughout the Far East and the Mediterranean for many years, and now a simple solution for enhanced personal hygiene …
New Origin: Colour for Bathrooms
VitrA, one of Europe’s leading bathroom companies, has expanded its collections of bathroom products with the addition of Origin brassware and accessories. Subtle elegant design is the key theme of …
Highlife hits the high notes
Highlife Bathrooms has enjoyed one of its most successful ever starts to a year, following its £100,000 rebranding from Alliance Sanitary Products in February. The East Kilbride-based company, which serves …
VitrA Bathrooms announces its first RIBA-accredited CPD
‘Bathroom Design and Specification: Ceramic Sanitaryware’ Leading bathroom manufacturer VitrA announces its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module, approved by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Earning professionals a valuable …
Wall-hung WCs made easy with striking glass casing Vitrus from VitrA
VitrA has pioneered easy, fuss free installation for wall hung sanitaryware with its extensive range of in wall frames and has now taken another step forward with the introduction of …
Contemporary and Curvaceous – Designs from Clearwater
Specialising in luxury, handcrafted freestanding baths and basins, Clearwater’s collection of contemporary and curvaceous designs is guaranteed to provide homeowners with a relaxing bathroom sanctuary to escape to. With the …
Bathroom Design Ideas from New Website
VitrA, one of the UK’s fastest growing bathroom brands, has launched a striking, intuitive, and multi-functional website designed for all. The newly launched interactive website from VitrA makes it easy …
Boutique Modern delivers the Highlife at Swanborough Lakes
Highlife Bathrooms specified for South Downs luxury holiday lodges When given the job of building and fitting out seven luxury holiday lodges for a holiday park in the South Downs …
VitrA launches Equal – a new bathroom collection created in collaboration with Italian architect and designer Claudio Bellini
VitrA has announced its latest collaboration with celebrated architect and designer, Claudio Bellini. Launching at ISH this year (11 – 15 March 2019), Equal explores the fusion between the organic …
New Valarte Makes Classic Current
VitrA has announced details of a new bathroom range joining its Signature Collection during in March. A perfect complement to the contemporary designs associated with VitrA, Valarte introduces the popular Shaker …
Alliance sets sights on retail market with Highlife Bathrooms rebrand
Alliance Sanitary Products has invested £100,000 in rebranding as Highlife Bathrooms – a development aimed at establishing itself as a household brand name in the consumer retail market. The rebranding …
Minimalist Vanity Basin, WC & Electronic-Flush Urinal for Istanbul
The Istanbul collection designed for VitrA by Ross Lovegrove has been an international success since it was first launched in 2004. The sanitaryware and furniture collection draws its inspiration from …
Sleep + Eat Success for VitrA
VitrA has reported that the new look Sleep + Eat 2018 was a great success for the international bathroom company. The exhibition formed part of a series of high-profile events …
Fit and Forget Campaign Delivers for VitrA
VitrA reports that its innovative Fit and Forget campaign designed to highlight the design features of VitrA’s concealed cistern frames has seen sales double year on year. VitrA is a …
Signature Distributors Complete the Knowledge
VitrA’s distributors have been taking advantage of the company’s custom-built Signature Collection showroom and training centre at Didcot, Oxford. Distributors have attended sessions on-site to receive in-depth sales knowledge and …
Can Designer Bathroom Pieces Increase in Value?
With the current market for refurbished Victorian and Edwardian sanitaryware, the answer is yes. A restored Victorian console basin on a stand can sell for up to £3000 while a …
New VitrA Signature Collection
VitrA has announced the launch of a strategic new product portfolio, Signature Collection. Available to eligible retailers, Signature Collection includes new products, a refreshed design to Shift an existing range, …
Introducing the complete UNION collection
Introducing UNION from Crosswater, a new standard in contemporary bathroom design. Challenging the traditional concept of bathroom fittings, UNION has been engineered to provide unparalleled functionality and designed to make …
New Matt Basins for VitrA Frame Collection
Matt colours are an on-trend feature in the new Frame basin range from VitrA. Designed to coordinate with VitrA Frame furniture the basins include countertop, inset and vanity basins designs …
Exceptional Ceramics from Britton Bathrooms
Combining exceptional design with advanced surface technology, Britton Bathrooms’ ceramics are the ideal choice for a modern bathroom. Coated with Britton’s unique Nano Glaze, each piece of sanitaryware is extremely …
Bowls of Beauty
New Manufacturing Process Produces Super-Fine Basins International bathroom giant VitrA has launched Outline, a new range of ultra-fine wash basins manufactured using Cerafine, a brand-new material in bathroom production that …
Drainage without compromising design
Geberit brings luxury and practicality to this residential and public sector project Geberit’s siphonic drainage solution, Pluvia, has been used on the roof of London’s new Design Museum (previously the …
SpecMaster now features Geberit Bathroom Collection
Enabling architects and designers to specify products from across the Geberit and Twyford brands, the Geberit Bathroom Collection now features on the online SpecMaster sanitaryware specification tool. Developed in partnership …
Introducing the new Geberit tap system
The new Geberit tap system changes the thinking behind touchless technology in the washroom, with slimline elegant deck and wall-mounted taps that combine aesthetic appeal with optimum hygiene and clever …
Washroom design for the well educated
With so many rules and regulations surrounding the practicalities of washroom design in educational settings, Daniel Ward, Senior Ceramics Product Manager for Twyford, talks us through the dos and don’ts …
Wallgate announces new Australasian distributor
Wallgate Limited, a market leading specialist in the design and manufacture of robust washrooms and sanitaryware solutions, has appointed Australia’s leading commercial tapware designer and supplier, Galvin Engineering, as its …
Introducing the new Geberit Bathroom Collection
The market-leading sanitary brand which brought you Geberit AquaClean, Geberit Duofix and Geberit Mapress is proud to announce the launch of the Geberit Bathroom Collection. With 150 years of behind …
Let there be light whatever the hour, with Geberit Monolith Plus
Geberit has introduced a new addition to its best-selling Monolith sanitary module, with the Geberit Monolith Plus. Featuring the same sleek, elegant glass frontage as the original model, this latest …
Thirty6 – New Thinking for The Smallest Room
Bathroom Brands launch new bathroom range designed with the British home in mind. Despite the typical British bathroom being only six feet square or smaller, today’s bathroom remains one of …
Keramag Design’s Citterio Collection inspires with timeless, Italian design
Keramag Design’s Citterio Collection, designed by the world famous Italian architect Antonio Citterio, harmonises crisp geometric contours and organic shapes in one. Citterio offers a sleek, timeless elegance which will …
Geberit Sigma30 expands the popular flush plate range
Geberit has expanded its best-selling Sigma range of flush plates with the addition of the Geberit Sigma30. With a choice of either a single or dual flush version the Sigma30 …
Keramag Design’s Silk collection is the ideal for the hotel and leisure sectors
Keramag Design’s Silk collection, designed by the internationally renowned product designer Michael Schmidt, combines elegance, precision detail and design flexibility. It is ideal for designers and specifiers looking to create …
Of sound design
Based on findings from its dedicated acoustics laboratory, Victoria Willis, Product Manager for Geberit, explains the importance of taking a complete system approach to designing out the nuisance sound of …
Five-star luxury at the touch of a button
With comfort and luxury at every turn, Geberit AquaClean 8000plus shower toilets were the natural choice for the five-star Park Hyatt Vienna Hotel. In the heart of Vienna’s old town, …
Hi-tech bathrooms for UK’s home-tech testing hub
The Good Housekeeping Institute (GHI), located in London’s Soho, provides a state-of-the-art testing facility where the latest homeware appliances are put through their paces. As part of a recent upgrade, …
Successful combination of aesthetics and technology wins the Geberit AquaClean Mera shower toilet a Red Dot Design Award 2015
The Geberit AquaClean Mera, the manufacturer’s most advanced shower toilet yet, has been recognised for its superior good looks and technical ability with a Red Dot Design Award 2015. Designed …
Wall-hung made simple with Duplo from Roca
Enabling the aesthetic and practical appeal of wall-hung sanitaryware to be realised in virtually any washroom environment, the new concealed Duplo installation systems from Roca make fitting simple. While the …
Spa-like cleanliness within a sleek & streamlined exterior
The Geberit AquaClean Mera marks a new era in shower toilet technology Winner of two prestigious design awards, for its outstanding product design coupled with sophisticated technology, the Geberit AquaClean …