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The latest and greatest toilet innovations coming to a bowl near you

James Wormald

23/05/2023

The time is now for a breakthrough in toilet technology. These latest sanitary innovations are set to clean up the WC’s act. We line them up against the wall.

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ISH 2023 Innovation Preview: LAUFEN

Markus Hieke

05/03/2023

Wait, did you say smart water? LAUFEN Smart is the name of a new system for intelligent and networked water management in public sanitary rooms. Here we present a first impression of it, in part six of our ISH preview of new products.

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Creating bathroom art with Laufen

Nick Compton

09/01/2023

‘Functionality and poetry are not a contradiction,’ says Milan-based Toan Nguyen, designer of the beautifully balanced bathroom collection LUA for Laufen.

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LAUFEN: ways of seeing

Simon Keane-Cowell

09/06/2022

LAUFEN x Alessi x Snøhetta. Three design heavyweights provide new perspectives in Milan.

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Customisable colour with LAUFEN's PVD system

Mareile Morawietz

24/01/2022

With its own PVD coating system, Swiss brand LAUFEN helps architects and planners to create colourful, bespoke, high-quality kitchen and bathroom spaces.

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LAUFEN's Pure and Val collections are a perfect match

Mareile Morawietz

24/01/2022

Designed to work together in perfect harmony, particularly in smaller spaces, the Pure and Val collections offer luxury solutions to planners working on smaller budgets.

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Teaming up with LAUFEN and SCOTT Sports

Mareile Morawietz

24/01/2022

For its headquarters in Givisiez, Switzerland, SCOTT Sports teamed up with LAUFEN to provide bespoke solutions for wash areas with an emphasis on comfort, cost, style and sustainability.

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A single brand under one roof

Mareile Morawietz

08/12/2021

By uniting their product ranges under the LAUFEN brand, Keramik Laufen and Similor underline their alliance and expertise as a comprehensive bathroom supplier.

Design trends in bathrooms: exceptional sanitary equipment

Peter Smisek

18/10/2021

Whether bold colours or interesting textures, these stylish fixtures and finishes offer the latest in luxury wellness for the home.

From hotels to concert halls: 8 distinctive projects with original bathrooms

James Wormald

04/10/2021

Restrooms that bring unique character to interior projects are a great way to add individual style to the user experience. Here are eight of the best.

Smallest rooms that provoke the loudest protests: Laufen bathrooms

LAUFEN BATHROOMS

25/07/2021

Is it time to rethink the public bathroom for the 21st century?

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Gonna dress you up: Kartell by Laufen

Simon Keane-Cowell

30/03/2021

Design meets fashion. And, for once, in a good way. The super-brand Kartell by Laufen bathroom collection gets a new set of clothes…

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Something old, something new: LAUFEN

Harriet Thorpe

24/11/2020

In creating his new collection for Swiss bathroom brand LAUFEN, Marcel Wanders sought to marry old-world refinement with modern functionality. And the result? The New Classic.

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Thinnovation: Laufen

Simon Keane-Cowell

04/08/2020

As demonstrated by Patricia Urquiola’s Sonar bathroom collection, LAUFEN’s innovative SaphirKeramik technology has opened up a whole new world of creative possibilities for designers.

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Give pee a chance: save! from Laufen

Simon Keane-Cowell

02/06/2020

When it comes to innovation, Swiss bathroom specialists LAUFEN aren't for taking things sitting down. Except, of course, if it's their game-changing save! separation toilet...

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What’s art got to do with it?: Laufen

Simon Keane-Cowell

12/09/2017

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.

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2017: 29.9. – 8.10.2017

Vienna Design Week

10/09/2017

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is Austria’s largest design festival. After the 10th anniversary last year the festival now celebrates its 11th edition. VIENNA DESIGN WEEK defines design as an essential part of the cultural production. The festival shows that design shapes our material culture, our every-day life and our world as consumers. Simultaneously, it influences our lifestyles and most fundamentally our aesthetic senses and judgements. In autumn we are therefore looking forward to a great number of different events throughout Vienna. There will be new, surprising and ground-breaking aspects to be discovered in our product culture. A first programme preview promises an exciting festival edition 2017.

Architects’ top brands

Architonic

02/02/2017

Fresh inspiration for hotel design at Sleep 2015

Sleep

14/10/2015

Sleep, Europe’s most important annual destination for the hotel design, architecture and development community, celebrates its 10th edition on 24 and 25 November at London’s Business Design Centre. Over two days visitors can experience a series of imaginative installations from top design studios, engage with industry thought-leaders at stimulating conference sessions, and discover products by international brands carefully selected for diversity, innovation and quality.

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To the Power of Two

Simon Keane-Cowell

26/11/2013

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.

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Walk the Line

Simon Keane-Cowell

09/11/2013

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.

Still Waters: Laufen's newly extended Palomba range takes restraint to a higher level

Simon Keane-Cowell

21/10/2012

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.

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