Classic claw foot tub noir (in NYC?)
There's something private eye-ishly hard boiled about this classic claw foot tub monochrome scheme we think from NYC (we don't know, we can't find the credit, if you know let us know). The finish is...
View ArticleBlack clawfoot tub (in a great grey scheme)
Black clawfoot tubs are dramatic focal points in any scheme, but the rule breaking black clawfoot tub seems to follow some bathroom rules. The number one is using the black as a contrast to a...
View ArticleColonial style(d) bathroom ideas
Colonial style is rarely Colonial Style. Colonial Style needs lots of staff and lots of room.Colonial Style(d) is usually the closest to Colonial Style for most interiors, even faithful reproductions...
View ArticleVintage Tub and Bath - the 1910 designer experience
Vintage Tub and Bath design today is a lot about how things look and how they work and how that look can be reproduced. Vintage Tub and Bath "authenticity" is prized and promoted. But its worth looking...
View ArticleVintage Bathroom Ideas
Vintage Bathroom Ideas usually begin with a tub, a scheme, a room and a plan. Accessories and styling are often secondary. But often the idea of a Vintage Bathroom can be expressed with careful choices...
View ArticleBathrooms with clawfoot tubs - RoI?
Bathrooms with clawfoot tubs are usually picked for their look or fit with the rest of a house or apartment. But what about their RoI, or Return on Investment? Our (admittedly unscientific - yet)...
View ArticleFreestanding Bathtubs
Freestanding bathtubs left their clawfoot roots around the 1980s, when out of nowhere M. Starck launched a vessel shape that filtered down from boutiques to high streets all over the world. Suddently...
View ArticlePainted clawfoot tub
Painted clawfoot tubs, as opposed to restored clawfoot tubs, present a real design challenge apart from the technical aspects of applying a coating to different surfaces (a painted clawfoot tub made...
View ArticleLuxury unfitted bathroom in Tribeca
There was a (brief) phase where every high end Tribeca loft bathroom looked like a cross between a lab and the inside of a space mission. Straight from catalog to canal street (yes, some realtors think...
View ArticleA Copper tub: Vicente Wolf and the subversion of bathroom luxury
Copper bath tubs are show stoppers - look amazing, look luxurious and look like money. They're one of the great maximalist interior design shorthand statements. And that statement is Copper bath tub...
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