The Holiday and Dove bathtubs, designed by the historic Florentine company Devon&Devon, in collaboration with one of the most important architecture and design firms Gensler, are heralding a radical change in the traditional approach to the design, production, and personalisation of bathtubs.
The unique and completely original bathtub system embraces a modular approach: four elements can be combined to offer a variety of aesthetic and performance solutions.
The sophisticated elegance of Holiday, inspired by the Art Deco movement, combines a rimmed tub that nests inside of the outer tub shell. The rim, with its top flat surface, allows taps to be mounted directly onto it. The inner module can be used not only with the tub shell, but also with semi-built-in installations.
Dove is equally versatile and is available in two versions. The first, with a distinctly contemporary look, combine the rimless tub with the same tub shell used for the Holiday. The second version uses a standalone rimless tub insert and offers a playful reinterpretation of claw-foot tubs.
“We worked from a point of view of finding a design solution that is both classic and contemporary,” explains Daniel Stromborg, Product Design Director at Gensler. “The collection was inspired by Streamline Moderne, pulling from it the decidedly American twist on this Art Deco movement. We retained the memory of it – reinterpreting simple shapes, refined materials and subtle details – while consciously moving towards meeting the requirements of contemporary interior design. The modular nature of the collection is oriented towards offering customisable solutions in shape and material.”
The system, based on two different tub inserts that are available in both rimless and rimmed, nests into a universal tub shell with an optional decorative marble sleeve. The bodies of tub inserts and universal shell are made of White Tec Plus, an innovative compound that balances high design performance and sustainability.
In addition to the tub shell shared by both tubs, Holiday and Dove also provide the option of adding a Calacatta Oro marble sleeve to the plinth, smooth or moulded. Further base personalisation is available by request. With its remarkable resilience to knocks and marks, as well as the ease of maintenance, Holiday and Dove are suitable for bath design in hotels and contract furnishings.
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