Adventures in shower pans, Italian style
At Cersaie in Bologna last September I saw all kinds of amazing innovations and new products, many of which were making their world debut in Bologna that week. Worldwide, the tile industry is more properly known as the ceramics industry, and a large component of the world ceramics industry is bath design.
Two Italian manufacturers came up with interesting ways to deal with a shower pan this year and both companies are onto what I say is the next big thing in shower design. The first of these innovations is Rapsel 's Pianolegno. I'm showing it here with their Pluviae shower fixture.
By the way, Pianolegno means wooden floor in Italian and Pluviae is French for rain.
The Pianolegno is a teak grid that suits into a chrome steel bathe pan this is been countersunk into the floor. The pan looks like this and also can be used on its own with out the teak inserts.
Here's the way it seemed after I saw it at Rapsel's sales space at Cersaie. It's been paired here with Rapsel's Cobra shower.
Pretty slick. Check out the rest of Rapsel's wares on their website .
Another great innovation I saw in this department is the Volo from Flaminia . Volo means flight for what it's worth.
The Volo is a ceramic, basket weave grate that sits in a ceramic pan. That pan can be countersunk into the ground or it can sit on pinnacle of the floor. If it's sitting on the ground, it is make a small step up manifestly.
Here's how it checked out Faminia's sales space,
and here's a element of the grate.
Flaminia has an enormous collection of bath products and you can see them on Flaminia's website .
Granted, those merchandise are still form of edgy to North American eyes, however ought to you ever see the usage of something like this in your home? Does the idea of a shower without a cut back, which means it's flush with the ground appeal to you?