The adjustment of waters in our houses is within the jurisdiction of designers and architects, who know how and where the water should flow, the steam evaporate and the ice not to form, so that our lives are more comfortable, pleasant and safe. Let’s give word to tamers of nature.

Jaime Hayon, designer

While working with bathroom space, I didn’t want to think of it as one. I always thought conventional solutions to be very pale and flat, suggesting hospital recollections. Besides, the room is always hidden. Why can’t we treat the plumbing equipment just like furniture and use it in any room of the house? That is how AQ for ArtQuitec appeared. It is a colorful blast of a collection with unusual forms, modern and at the same time quite traditional.

Vadim Kibardin, designer

Do you think the idea of a bathroom changed very much over the last ten years? I don’t think so. Humanity always strived for comfort, especially in such intimate matters. The only thing that could and can change anything is high technologies. Wall-size liquid-crystal displays, voice controlled water temperature, new exotic shapes of traditional objects (bath, shower, toilet and various equipment and fittings). But in whole, I think, nothing can be changed, as a naked man will stay just a naked man at all times, and the desire to enjoy bathing as much as possible is in our nature. As a result, the basic principles stay the same throughout the centuries since the roman therm. New materials, new kinds of ceramics, new ways of wood manufacturing (wooden baths), and new man-friendly surfaces – all of this brings its correctives, but on the whole, still relates to technology. There is another aspect where changes are constant – fashion and style. Many designers play on this field as there are millions of variants and subjective solutions. I find it hard to analyze stylistics as it is beyond design.

Carlo Colombo, designer

For me, the most important thing in design is utility of objects together with the harmony of form. In water zone it is especially important. In bathroom design my appeal for simple forms coincided with the producer’s (Antonio Lupi) vision. As a result the collections were very laconic without excessive decoration, but pretty expressive. Maybe someone will think them too sterile, but for me the blinding white, the clean surfaces and geometric forms is the style that makes water, the main symbol of the bathroom, look frightfully well.