Purity of taste

Bagno 2008 in Milan

Passing the gallery

Text and photo: Olga Korotkova

Magazine: Nha (131) 2008

From the good of not looking for good? Only not designers. They extract new meanings and look for new forms - things and processes, simple in composition, essential in life, pleasant in essence. So, Milan-2008, exhibition Si'alon, theme - bathrooms

If a couple of years ago in the design of bathrooms two general directions were clearly traced - classic and minimalism, nowadays priority is given to eclecticism - the number one style in everything. Eclectic conveniently combines the features of something if you please, or rather what the designer will do. Since the right to combine the incompatible, inventing never before invented and breathing new lives into decrepit and well forgotten eras remain for designers. Let's honestly tell ourselves that creating interiors is not a matter of our taste, not of our choice and not of our mind. The interior is not a choice, it is a faith. Our belief in the designer, in the architect, in the professional at last. A few years ago, it occurred to someone in the design world to recall the oldest method of finishing wet rooms — marble and ceramic mosaic. And please, now it is perhaps the most popular material for the interior in any style - from Moroccan to pop-art. Glamor time has done its job in the design of the bathroom. This year, the stands featured baths defiantly black, shiny, like patent leather shoes. Baths, decorated with leaves of gold leaf and silver. Baths with inlaid - in the form of a giant brooch - corals, pearls, and, as one hundred percent of readers guess, crystals SWAROVSKI.

Baths and sinks from a single block of natural stone are becoming a strong trend. In this regard, it is necessary to pay attention to the new wave of ethnics. Appearing a year ago at the Paris exhibition Maison&Objet, a new ethnics has strengthened its position in all areas of interior themes (bathrooms are no exception). It is more restrained in its national determination, more averaged in character and cooler in sound. If it seems to you that there is too much jewelry brilliance per unit of exhibition space, that you have already seen all this (and in large quantities), that all this is too cloying, then here you are greatly mistaken. Exhibition show has its own specifics, and this must be understood. High concentration will disappear as soon as you find yourself in your own home, where three or five baths will not stand nearby. And one in the center of a spacious room with a window (for example) will shine like a diamond ... The 60s are an irrepressible topic in the fashionable bridesmaid dresses (remember last summer’s weddings), in hairstyles (look around!), And now in the bathroom. A brash-shocking strip, peas, orange with green and purple with yellow - all this fashionable parrot, cast from gold at the price of polymer resin, is the most popular product for those who are short-circuited and capital for soul.

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