Even though I dream of buying my own place one day, I have always been renting here in Munich. In my current apartment my landlord made some good decisions when renovating the bathroom and used high end materials and bathroom elements but in my previous apartments they were far from pretty and it made me dream of designing my own bathroom one day.
Personally I think a home in general should reflect your personality and character. It should be a place where you feel at ease. A bedroom should be a place where you feel at rest and a bathroom to me should be a haven of solitude, a place where you slow down and come to rest in the evening and start your day fresh in the morning. It’s so very important that you feel well in this area of your home, so it should be designed in a way that combines technology and a sense of well being in an elegant and timeless way.
It’s not easy to design a bathroom and to find high quality ceramics that look minimal and stylish which is why I got so excited to get to know the color elements collection of GSI ceramics. GSI produces all of their products in Italy in a district with a thousand-year-old ceramic tradition, combining skilful craftsmanship with the most advanced technology. Apart from their beautiful collections they have enriched their product family with Color Elements which allows an infinity of possible combinations to customise your dream bathroom.
I got the oportunity to try out their colors and get creative with their beautiful ceramic samples. The matt finish of the ceramic is what stood out to me immediately, it adds a touch of luxurious elegance that is often lacking in bathroom fixtures. While most of the collection has a matt finish, selected pairs of suspended wc/bidets come with the special “Dual Glaze” finishing that combines an opaque glaze on the outside of the sanitary fixture with a shiny Extraglaze® one on the hydraulic sections in contact with water. An exclusive feature that ensures maximum hygiene.
All the samples that I got here at home looked truly amazing and I love the subtile colors. I picked out two of the colors that stood out to me and created a moodboard of how I would design a bathroom around these colors.
Cenere is a delicate pale ceramic shade that is highly contemporary. It’s a light grey that is fresh and brilliant and I think it would work exceptionally well in a bathroom which is clean in design, yet has a certain coziness to it. In the GSI bathroom example pictured above, they have used the Cenere color on the sanitary fixtures of the Pura collection and combined it with a light grey terrazzo, pale green walls and an accent green terrazzo underneath the washbasins for a fresh look. The chrome tabs and the large sleek mirror make this look even more modern and minimal.
While Cenere is a more modest color, Agave has a deep and enticing grey-green tint which even though not a shooting color, is more contemporary and daring. The finishing evokes ancient images of luxuriant Mediterranean nature and has a certain freshness to it which fits perfectly in a modern bathroom. In my moodboard I experimented with fresh colors of blue with a calming palette of warmer tints, which is something that you can also find back in the inspiring images from the GSI catalog images. The Agave color has been added to the Pura Collection elements in this gorgeous bathroom and has been combined with concrete walls, wood panelling and matt chrome tabs. The green and grey elements add a cool touch which makes this bathroom look very refreshing and modern.
Even though the fixtures look great in white as well, I think these subtile colors add a little extra to the bathroom that is still timeless in design, yet stands out because of its high quality glazing, texture and subtile palette. In my opinion the GSI color elements allow for customisation of a modern bathroom with character, while still staying timeless so you can keep your bathroom design for years to come.
This post was written in collaboration with GSI Ceramica however all opinions are my own of course. If you would like get inspired for your bathroom project, I highly encourage you to read their latest Bathings magazine. GSI products are available in Germany through Richter + Frenzel, in Austria through SHT, in Switzerland through Sabag.
