Bright bathtubs

Luxury and innovation for bath tubs

If for you the luxury frontier is represented by a long night swim in the pool at the soft glow of the stars know that, in terms of imagination, someone has beaten you.

Instead of ordinary and pre-packaged solutions, although cut in a market share well above the level of mere mortals, there are those who dabbles in bath tubs, combining elements taken from the abc of design and industrial design, in new and totally unexpected ways.


So it happens that new lighting systems and materials before reserved to restricted areas, marry traditional forms such as the bath tub, absolute queen of every bathroom worthy of the name.

I'm sure, by regulars of outdoor summer spaces, you have a certain familiarity with elements of light fittings. Typical are the large white cylindrical vases slightly tapered which are typically used to delineate pathways or to highlight the entrance to spaces dedicated to music and open air.

Well, you transpose the concept to the tank above and here is OIO designed by Michel Boucquillon for Antonio Lupi.
The polyethylene which the body is made of, makes it an out or indoor piece of furniture particularly resistant, as well as intelligent.

The recyclability of the material, in fact, is no longer the prerogative only of niche creations, the result of research devoted to eco only (and therefore somehow disappointing in other respects).

In the wake of previous successes and through the use of technology for producing sound, safe and cutting edge (as rotational molding), it has no problem to address issues large and more complex from the design point of view.

The interior lighting, if starts as an harmonious and beneficial device for chromotherapy, is actually an expression of very successful scenic intent, especially if coupled with the monolithic sink from the same collection.

I learn also, reading from many quarters, that the lightness of both is celebrated, so that we could move even with tub and sink.

But OIO is not the only a convincing example of combination of water and light.

Led, photoluminescence and light for baths

Infinity Bath also raises the attention with arrogance, from the Ukrainian study Mukomelov.


A body that follows the conch shell and promises to wrap in a soft embrace of foam or water rippled by the integrated whirlpool system, it projects to surprise a play of light on the floor.

The effect is achieved through LED inside the structure, completely safe and inaccessible to water.
The well-being is not limited to the use of the tank as a super-accessoried bathroom fixture, but also its potentialities as a furnishing of real design.

The different functions (chromotherapy, background music, with regeneration salts) can be activated at will and allow for customization that is unmatched in the past production.


Then there is a whole collection of furniture and objects that are treasure of photoluminescence, the properties of some aluminized inorganic in nature to capture light, natural or artificial, and then return it in the dark, in a limited time, but, nonetheless, quite prolonged.

This collection has been offered by Lucedentro and includes a number of products in which the technology developed from the properties described is applied in a safe, non-toxic way and complies with all applicable national and European industry norms.

One of the most fascinating is represented by a mosaic, if during the day it is similar to other coatings, at night it comes to life and transforms completely the object or surface to which it is applied.


A bath tub coated internally and externally with this material is perfect to place in a large bathroom, especially if the effect of light is dissolved and reformulated through another source; perfect, for example, the soft light of a group of candles.

Cascade of crystal in a bath tub

To talk about the next bath tub, however, I admit to having some difficulties.
The problem is that, to describe the Parure by Elvis Pompilio for Aquamass, any ordinary definition seems trivial and unnecessary.
Let's go step by step and try to identify first its nature.
It is a bath tub and you'd be as right as rain about this, indeed, one wallows heedless of water splashing outside.


These in fact, would only enrich the already large waterfall that completely covers the outer surface and that, in spite of those who feel nouveau chic, consists of wire and evanescent wires of crystal pearls.

The glitter and the preciousness of the solution are accentuated by a LED backlight that makes this tank the true symbol of what creative people are able to think in terms of bathroom design.

This proposal can only enrich a long list of contemporary objects that testify to a fact: the line between game and functionality, luxury and formal minimalism was already long gone and now there is no turning back.

It's up to you to judge whether this is good or not.
Meanwhile, if your rationalist and functionalist fundamentalism let you do it, you can even just watch the bath tub and appreciate the very least a high design content.

Starry sky in the bathroom

Witnesses of this trend are also the achievements of the various award-winning Thai Bathroom Design Company, headquartered in exotic and distant Bangkok.

The tub Nirvana is first of all an extraordinary technological object equipped with sophisticated touch screen controls integrated imperceptibly on acrylic surface.


When the lights are off it looks like a dream come true, thanks to the work of 360 LEDs: a starry sky covers it completely and transform it into a planetarium submerged in warm and relaxing waters, ideal for a pampering before sleeping at night.

At this point I do not think I have to give further explanation on his conquest of the Red Dot Design Award 2009.

Bath tubs bright and super luxurious!

I close with a work of art, rather than a spa a jewel and that, as such, has even been exposed for a short time in the famous London store Harrods.


The excellence of the Italian brand Baldi made its own a huge block of pure natural white crystal and turned it into a luxurious nest for the well-being, digging it wisely as a sculpture adorning it with soft lighting.

Make a creation of this kind is virtually impossible. Unless you're willing to shell out a figure that is around 800,000 Euros!
All things considered, better a dive in the pool with friends!