All over the world, a growing number of consumers are using technical products in their bathrooms – from MP3 players over flatscreens all the way to computers and online services. Certainly the technology won’t stop at sanitary products. Rarely has the bathroom industry experienced a wave of innovation to match the current advance of electronic products into the domestic sector. The technologies recently introduced into private bathrooms herald an improvement in day-to-day life and stand for a new generation of products that focus firmly on their users’ needs.
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In view of demographic developments, the future task of modern bathroom design will be to make life easier for as many people as possible. The new, barrier-free bathroom pursues the idea of “Universal Design” and is also convenient, versatile and smart. In this field Hewi has built a reputation.
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An individual spa in your own home, a world full of naturalness and wellbeing, specially created to help you relax and regenerate – that is what Grohe and Kaldewei will be showing visitors in their joint presentation at the imm cologne 2012. With Your Home Spa, the fittings specialists and tub experts are aiming to combine modern design and natural colours with innovative technologies and creative functions.
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It’s Christmas time again – and the days seem even fuller than during the rest of the year. One appointment follows another and it seems as if there’s no end to the Christmas shopping. There’s barely time to catch your breath. Faced with all this hectic activity, we long for a little calm and start thinking about gifts that will provide a little relaxation – like the Grohe Spa Lifestyle Accessories that were launched this spring. Intended to conjure up a spa atmosphere in the bathroom, the products aim to do away with stress and hecticness and provide some special moments of relaxation.
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Sustainability and eco-compatibility – two terms that prompted bathroom furniture manufacturer Burgbad to take 4.5 million euros and invest it in new paintshops in Bad Fredeburg and Nogent le Roi, France. The new facilities use only water-based paint so as to avoid the harmful effects of volatile organic compounds.
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Clear lines and cubic shapes are the hallmarks of contemporary architecture in European capitals like London, Copenhagen or Berlin. Grohe is now transferring this understated style to the bathroom in the form of its new Eurocube range, the company’s first-ever fittings line to be totally devoid of curves and cylindrical elements.
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Kaldewei is extending the “Coordinated Colours” collection it launched at the beginning of the year with five new nature-inspired shades. The “Indian Summer Colours” are intended to exude warmth and trigger associations with a natural setting.
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Over the last 65 years, the former building block boxes and coffee grinder manufacturer that was founded in the Sauerland town of Bad Fredeburg as a family company in 1946 has evolved into a modern producer of sophisticated bathroom solutions. The product portfolio includes bathroom furniture, modular systems and mirror cabinets and ranges from washbasin units, bathtubs and shower trays all the way to comprehensive interior concepts for the bathroom and adjacent areas.
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Experiencing water, delighting in its flow every single day, giving it a special form – that is what Grohe aspires to achieve. Ever since the firm Berkenhoff & Paschedag was taken over by Friedrich Grohe in 1936, the company has been devoted to finding a fitting way to handle water. more…
The company was founded on 1st October 1918 by Franz Kaldewei, the great-grand father of the current managing director Franz Kaldewei. At the beginning, Kaldewei manufactures raw materials for enamel industry. What started out with industrial products made of enamel developed into a unique quality standard for baths and shower trays. more…
