How AXOR Is Delivering Total Design Personalisation
The luxury interior brand works with revered architects to redefine customisation
While the world is currently more connected than ever and trends finally have the ability to gain momentous gravitas within mere minutes, individualisation has become the ultimate design goal of our time.
With people everywhere seeking more personal expressions of luxury, style and wellbeing – interior design has managed to break through the boundaries of mainstream to allow personalisation. For more than 25 years, AXOR has partnered with world-renowned designers to realise bespoke water-related spaces with the ability to express the unique personality of the user. For their latest series of collaborations, AXOR chose to work with three esteemed architects to experiment with the concepts of luxury and individualisation within bathrooms.
“Our products are designed by personalities for personalities,” declares Anke Sohn, AXOR’s head of global brand marketing. “This is reflected in the AXOR product portfolio, which stands apart from competition with its vast variety of styles. Through DISTINCTIVE, and the individual interpretations of celebrated architects, AXOR showcases the gamut of showers, faucets and accessories available in a range of finishes and materials, all enabling the ultimate customisation and personalisation of the bathroom, making this intimate space uniquely that of its owner.”
An avid fan of the 1980s Si-Fi masterpiece, Parisian architect Trisan Auer channels Blade Runner in his futuristically bold interpretation of the brief, creating a bathroom fit for a high-rise apartment in Hong Kong.
For his design, Trisan highly depends on the diamond-cut pyramid pattern of the AXOR Edge faucet by Jean-Marie Massaud.
Both the AXOR Edge washbasin faucet and free-standing bath faucet set striking contrasts to the surrounding materials, while the AXOR ShowerHeaven and the AXOR Edge thermostat provide cutting-edge functionality within the shower area. Additionally, the use of the new AXOR Universal Rectangular Accessories designed by Philippe Starck adds a timelessly modern touch to the bathroom. With that said, the designer also incorporated a shower from the AXOR conscious showers by PHOENIX.
On the other hand, Hadi Teherani’s concept offers the ultimate retreat, featuring the elegant form of a cupola placed in the centre of the design.
Inspired by the public baths in the Middle East, the circular room is accessible from several sides; in the centre, the architect places an organically formed bathtub that takes up the layout and around where a spacious shower area and a generous, oval double washbasin are arranged.
Light marble surfaces in the shower area and a dazzling, silver glass mirror mosaic that extends from the floor to the cupola provide the room visual and haptic consistency without sacrificing sensuality and warmth. AXOR Citterio E faucets, AXOR overhead and hand-held showers, as well as AXOR Universal Softsquare accessories in matt black form a striking contrast.
Aiming to dissolve the boundary between the indoors and the elements, Sarah Poniatowski created an indoor-outdoor bathroom. Natural materials such as raw pine and travertine fill the interior, striped in sunlight that passes through folding windows with wooden louvres.
Finished here in the AXOR FinishPlus surface Brushed Bronze, the AXOR Starck collection adds a refined, minimalist edge to Sarah’s creative concept.
Two AXOR Starck faucets set accents against the travertine washbasin, an effect repeated on the bathtub with a floor-standing AXOR Starck faucet.
Featured both indoors and out, the slender AXOR Starck Shower Column follows the linearity of the long, exposed pine beams and contrasts with the idiosyncratic Zellige tiles. Finally, the AXOR Starck Nature Shower allows maximum in-design flexibility.