Laufen Sink
I had a great time earlier in the week at an event organised by London bathroom suppliers Fonte Dei Marmi and hosted at Swiss bathroom manufacturer Laufen. Now if you know me you probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that I spent the day looking a toilets (and sinks and baths) and enjoyed every second of it. I found it fascinating to discover how much the design of the simple toilet could be improved by a tiny bit of thought. I’m not talking about space age technology, but simple things like shaping the pads that the seat rests on so that they lodge in side the rim & prevent the seat moving when you wriggle (don’t say that you don’t wriggle when sitting on the toilet – I know otherwise), or designing the seat & lid mounting so that they can be simply removed and replaced for cleaning. The sinks and baths have a ceramic hidden overflow integral to the waste so has no unsightly holes that become dirty and unhealthy, and it also makes plunging simpler and more effective. A cistern liner for your WC, a simple invention that eliminates condensation from the cistern but also reduces the noise when a cistern refills. Simple, clever, effective.
Anyway I had a great time, and would like to express my thanks again to Tony and Mike for inviting me, and to the Laufen team for laying on a great day, which had a twitter theme to it as all those present are active twitter users. So I thought that I would publish this blog on Follow Friday, and commend all those who attended as suitable follows:
The Fonte Boys (I’ve plugged them enough!)
Karen & Nigel from Reed Harris : sophisticated tiles for all purposes, pockets & tastes
Helen Silver Property Stylist, Interior Designer, Expert Personal Shopper
Fiona Davies Interior Designer and all round good egg.
Jacqui & David Smith Interior Designers
John Harrington Building Contractor
Barbara Segal of Noir Blanc Design
Now that’s in no particular order, but I put Andrew Dunning of APD Interiors last so I could link to his proper blog about Laufen a professionals view complete with photos.
A great day and a series of links for you to follow some of these design professionals.
Lovely blog about two fantastic days for myself and Mike at Fonte, I knew the idea to invite some of our fave and very talented people to meet our colleagues at Laufen would be a great event. Having met all the invited through Twitter there was no doubt we were in for a great time. Thank you Nick for making the effort to join us, being very busy as always, the evening at The Salford Hall hotel was also a good opertunity to get to know one another -Tony and Mike, Fonte Dei Marmi
Sounds like a great day with great learnings and tweeps! Sorry I couldn’t be there as originally planned