A long-standing cultural sponsor, premium Swiss bathroom manufacturer LAUFEN sees its contribution to the wider creative field as just another part of its commitment to collaboration and innovation. (text by Simon Keane-Cowell)

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ILBAGNOALESSI One by Laufen

The iconic ILBAGNOALESSI One bathroom design collection from Laufen has been expanded for 2015. Sporting the same soft curves and design that have become synonymous with the range by Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni, the latest additions stay true to form.

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Laufen presents the first US presentation of the SaphirKeramik project by designers Konstantin Grcic and Toan Nguyen

Miami Ironside’s creative community together with Laufen North America and the the Museum of Contemporary of Art North Miami will be opening their showrooms and studios for a night of music and performances, a night celebrating art and design for the Campus Collective Party on December 3, 2014.

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‘1 plus 1 can equal more than 2’, says Laufen’s Director of Marketing and Products, Marc Viardot. The new Laufen by Kartell collection, the result of an intensive collaboration, is a space-defining, added-value total concept for the bathroom

Collaboration isn’t for everyone. If you’re to make it work, it involves serious time and resources, not to mention a genuine willingness to go beyond your usual MO to achieve a creative result with added value. Celebrated Italian design brand Kartell and leading Swiss sanitaryware specialists Laufen, however, show just how great the reward can be. (by Simon Keane-Cowell)

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Surpassed only by diamond in terms of hardness, corundum lends Laufen’s innovative new ceramic an unparalleled hardness, permitting sanitaryware designs with ultra-rational, thin-walled forms

Why do manufactured products look the way they do? Often it’s practical necessity. Sometimes it’s aesthetic tradition. In the case of sanitaryware, it’s due historically to the materials limits of Vitreous China and Fine Fire Clay. Enter SaphirKeramik, a new material innovation from leading Swiss manufacturer Laufen that is set to change the bathroom landscape. (by Simon Keane-Cowell)

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‘Emotional’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘sophisticated’ are the keywords behind the design of the colourful, ambient Palomba Collection

Take incomparable ceramics, add premium plastics, specify ‘sanitaryware’ and ask designers Ludovica and Roberto Palomba to blitz it up. What you get is the best of Kartell and Laufen. (Text: Alexandra Onderwater)

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Photo: Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY

The amazing range of what is called architecture today – from pop up shops, to computer generated blobs, to buildings – no doubt influenced by the powerful world of art and design, is the subject of The AIA Europe-Laufen Architecture during Art Symposium.

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Both the bath and the ‘Menhir’ wash basin are free-standing, highly sculptural pieces that provide an arresting focal point within any bathroom space

When it came to launching their latest family of products, high-end Swiss bathroom manufacturer decided to buck the trend for the ultra-rational and focus on building on the softer, timeless design language of its earlier Palomba collection. The result: the striking Palomba Collection 2012. (by Simon Keane-Cowell)

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