There is a word in Japanese - wabi - which expresses the idea of beauty in an understated form: “beauty as hidden form, the quality of subtle refinement masked by rustic simplicity”.
These words sum up the aesthetic canon of this line of products, whose subtle neo-industrial atmospheres appear spartan but are really sophisticatedly luxurious. Washbasins featuring ceramic enamels that bring back distant memories, painted flush to floor shower-tray, light tops of pierced sheet-metal, shower heads with a familiar look, shower systems with curtains in stripes PVC material.
These are the components of this new family of products which bears an industrial stamp both in the nature of its chosen materials (sheet metal, plastics and cements) and in their fashioning (strip curtains, pieced sheet-metal). A contemporary interpretation of chic informal stylishness reflecting low tech options that aim for lightness and simplicity.
Friendly objects which, in the simplicity of their revealed function, give the environment which hosts them a precise identify: that of the sea-urchin!