Stories by Alape

Using wall lights to extend the reach of a room’s layered lighting scheme, designers can increase its size, look and usefulness by highlighting the parts we want to see, while keeping the rest in the dark.

Work.Frameˣ offers architects and planners almost unlimited possibilities for designing washplaces in hotels and apartments for the high-end project sector.

Exclusive materials, a balanced design, smart details, and the sustainable use of resources are the hallmarks for all products in the new Arkta furniture range.

The Xcut and Xcross floor-standing washstands by Alape have an open design that combines aesthetics with precise manufacturing.

For 125 years, German brand Alape has been perfecting the visual as well as haptic experience of washbasins and washstands made of glazed steel.

Unique surfaces for every bathroom interior.

ISH, the world's leading trade fair for the sanitary, heating and air-conditioning industry, is taking place in Frankfurt from 11 to 15 March. For us at Architonic, this is an ideal opportunity to take a look at a major current trend: the growing importance of colour in the bathroom.

Sustainability and ALAPE are a perfectly functioning duo – and have been for more than 120 years.

German manufacturer ALAPE is synonymous with glazed steel. Robust, resistant and versatile, one could even say the material is a metaphor for the brand itself.

A revolutionary creation when it was launched two decades ago, Gerhard Busalt’s innovative dish-basin design remains central to ALAPE’s collection.

Committed to innovation, ALAPE has brought the colours and textures of the natural world to two new surfaces: Aqua and Terra.

20 years ago Gerhard Busalt designed the first dish basin for ALAPE. A clean shape for clean hands. Here's how it all began.

The most popular manufacturers in the bathroom, bathroom fittings, bathroom floors and surface areas.

Alape, founded in 1896 in Penig (Saxony), is a traditional manufacturer of enamel products that currently employs over 200 workers at two production sites in Goslar.

Premium German manufacturer ALAPE designs washplaces for every layout.

Premium German manufacturer ALAPE, with its innovative approach to design and technology, has been shaping the experience of water in the bathroom since 1896.

It is the diversity and wealth of variants provided by Goslar-based manufacturer Alape that enables planners and architects to tune statement and dominance of a basin to follow almost any design approach. Alape's innovative strength combines more than 100 years of experience in handling glazed steel with an unconditional concentration on the essentials of bathroom design. This results in absolutely precise puristic basins and washstands which, thanks to their designs and adaptability, open up solutions with a particular architectural affinity.

What began with enamelled water cans and bowls in 1896 has today culminated in A˘form – an impressive and extensive collection of basins and washstands for the personalised design of high-quality and aesthetic washplace solutions. As before, glazed steel is at the heart of product and design development at Alape, the Goslar-based manufacturer. Competence and innovative capacity make the company an ideal partner for planners and architects designing sophisticated sanitary rooms in private and semi-public areas. Custom-made products and special solutions are challenges that the company approaches with confidence and increasingly often. This is exactly the type of situation in which the flexibility of a manufacturer comes into its own.

Goslar-based manufacturer ALAPE has been creating aesthetic washplace solutions out of glazed steel for 117 years.

It's somewhat fitting, given the almost lyric quality of his name, that Canadian-born designer Yorgo Lykouria should be interested in reintroducing the poetic into everyday life. His latest product for premium bathroom brand Alape is a wash basin that eschews preconceived ideas of what such an object type should look like in favour of designing the actual experience of washing, one characterised by quietude and wonder. Meeting up with Lykouria at the recent ISH fair in Frankfurt, Architonic got its hands dirty with some serious design discussion.

With ISH Frankfurt 2011 – the leading international trade fair for all things bathroom – about to open its doors, Architonic takes a look at just some of the new products that will be on show. We've kept it clean.

Die neue Produktlinie X.plicit von Alape nutzt die Vorteile des glasierten Stahls und ermöglicht eine individuelle Waschplatz-Gestaltung auf hohem technischen Niveau.