A Five Star Look in your own Bathroom
By Tara Hamilton
(NC)-Holidays can be humiliating. You dig deep, treat yourself to a suite in a five star hotel, enjoy every minute of your stay and when you come home you can't get it out of your mind. The view, the colours, the bathroom as big as a spa, the above counter sink, the whirlpool bath, the open shower, the faucets like abstract sculptures – why can't home be like that?
You get over it, eventually, but I have to tell you that there's one item on that list that could well be within your reach. Those lovely little sculptures - the tub filler, the hand shower, the faucets - can be found in many expressions and different styles in just one place, Jado.
Jado is where American Standard keeps their most luxurious designs for bath and kitchen. The many collections under the Jado name have been commissioned from some of the most accomplished names in design, product development and architecture. Here's an example, introduced by Gray Uhl, design director for American Standard.
"The Jado IQ collection, unlike many contemporary styles, is light in weight and light in heart," he says. "Elegant geometry just about sums it up. The designer is the man who helped make Swiss watches fun for all, as creative director of Swatch, Matteo Thun. Now he is a senior partner in the influential Memphis Design Group, and in IQ has created a sleek collection that offers infinite design possibilities."
To my mind the stars of IQ are the single-control faucet with a lever handle, and its horizontal twin - the wall mounted monoblock. But don't listen to me - there's something for everyone in IQ. If you must have the traditional widespread look with two cross handles, IQ has their own elegant interpretation. Also in the range are a wall mount shower, a tub filler, a hand shower, and full range of matching towel bars, hooks, shelves, and so on.
More information is available online at www.jado.ca. And for everything else you may need in bathroom or kitchen, the place to go is www.americanstandard.ca.
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