The architects envisage them installed at train stations and airports:

“It is not a comfortable situation, because in our modern, aggressive cities there are no opportunities to rest and relax. If you want to sleep, while waiting your plane or train, it may cause many security and hygiene problems. We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable for people. For this purpose we have developed the SLEEPBOX. It provides moments of quiet sleep and rest from the city without wasting time searching for a hotel.”

They envisage the SLEEPBOX as making it possible for anybody to be able to spend the night safely and cheaply in an emergency, like when you are stranded with your baggage unexpectedly and you are afraid that you might doze off in an airport and not be able to protect your belongings.

Source: Dezeen

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A Sleepbox For Catching a Nap at the Airport

UK-based bathroom brassware manufacturer Vado blends artisticism, functionality and style in the Sculpture showerhead. Sculpture it may not be, but it is without a doubt a work of modern art and offers a fully customized shower experience. The six shower heads can take any position you can think of, thanks to their flexible hoses. You can mount the modern showerhead to the wall or the ceiling according to your preferences. So bend, twirl and twist, until you reach the desired design. When it gets boring, just make a new one.

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Artistic brassware – Sculpture Showerhead by Vado

So here is a welcome brand new take on the loft bedroom. Simply hang a bed space out from the ceiling like a movie wall for hanging art or projecting a movie onto. Or leave it blank. Either way, this looks great.

At night this simple sleeping space has a romantic serenity that succeeds in keeping it separate from the doings of the day. French architects Emmanuel Combarel & Dominique Marrec came up with this clever strategy for a completely open and spacious yet private and encompassing bedroom.

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Charming New Take on The Loft Bedroom

There is nothing more relaxing than a hot bathtub after a long exhausting day. Spiritual Mode decided to make this daily ritual even better by creating the futuristic Beignet bathtub. The sci-fi tub pleases the eye with its circular shape and shiny hi-tech details.The two strangely designed metal parts are in fact the taps that fill the tub, while the nozzles on the tub’s base provide a gentle rejuvenating water massage. On the pictures we see also another product by Spiritual Mode – the illuminated shower, that can make your bathroom even more Star Trek-like. We are sure both hi-tech maniacs and luxury addicts will love this modern bathtub.

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Beignet: Futuristic Bathtub by Spiritual Mode

This beautiful design helps make greywater-recycling feel like a normal routine, an accepted practice. This is a necessity in a world in which water conservation is a must. The Barcelona-based design firm Roca showed the first ever toilet-sink combo that not only saves water but does it elegantly at the London Design Festival.

This sculptural beauty is a far cry from the incredibly ugly little sinks-in-the-toilet tank that have been seen around the internet till now.

It reduces water usage by 25 percent compared to a standard dual flush toilet. It also incorporates an in-situ water treatment that cleans the sink water to remove bacteria before it goes into the toilet, although that seems a little excessive. But this way it looks clean and not soapy.

The sink appears to be designed to facilitate standing behind the toilet to use the sink. as the sink’s widest side is to the back.  I like the bench in front for dropping iPods onto. We seem to have acquired these almost-body parts like cell phones and iPods that always need to be put somewhere in the bathroom.

Although it’s a novel idea to combine a sink and a toilet; that takes getting used to, conserving water is just one more necessity of living in a water constrained world, and it might as well be done with some grace, as this design firm has succeeded in doing.

This design makes it seem as if we always washed in the toilet tank.

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Elegant Greywater Recycling in the Bathroom

Now designers  Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouk, Olivier Pigasse, and Alban Le Henry invite natures  experts into your shower to recycle your water sustainably.

After you have washed in this shower the water passes down into filters and is treated by the reeds and rushes growing around your feet. This cleans the shower water naturally. As Jun Yasumoto puts it:

“These plants have been proven to be able to remove the chemicals from your shampoo. Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, the bathroom becomes a mini-eco-system by recycling and regenerating the waste water. With this project, we tried to combine the pleasure of taking a shower with the satisfaction of recycling water. We wanted the recycling process to actually interact with the use of shower.”

As you see in the diagram after the jump, you would stand on a platform and the reeds would only grow around the sides comprising the “walls” of the shower. You don’t have to share your standing room with the plants!

The waste water would pass into a chamber below the shower floor and go through a maze of filters. The system includes sand, reeds, rushes, a mesh filter, water hyacinths and lemnas, and finally a carbon filter.

They actually conceived of their idea seven years ago. It was only after posting the concept on the internet recently that they realized that the level of interest warranted another look at their concept. They have been inundated with  queries about where their shower can be bought.

“No prototype has been made as the project is just a concept for the moment, but it is interesting to see the positive feedback we are getting since we put these images online,” Yasumoto said “It has made us think we should keep on developing this idea and start thinking of ways to integrate it and bring it closer to reality.”

Perhaps it is time for a patent and commercialization of the idea. Kudos go to these graduates from the French national design school Ecole Nationale Supirieure de Creation Industrielle.

Via The Daily Mail

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Rushes and Reeds Could Recycle Your Shower Water Naturally

Can your bathroom become your own little wellness center? Yes, it can! With the hi-tech Luce 120 shower cabin it’s as easy as pie. The all-in-one luxury bathing device offers numerous indulgences: mixing scents, lights, colors and sounds, it delivers the ultimate bathing experience. Luce impresses with a large range of features, such as a steam shower with essences, bodyjets and a head shower with a “rain effect”, cascading water, Turkish bath, chromotherapy, steam, sauna, Bluetooth audio capability, electronic controls and almost everything else you will need to relax to the fullest. It comes in three color options – Burgundy, blue or white, and is available for corner or between walls installation. Available at Porcelanosa.

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Luce 120 – the ultimate shower cabin

What do you do with a bathroom that measures only about 16 square feet? Obviously, you won’t be  installing double sinks!

But actually, there are a number of other things you can do to give a small bathroom the appearance of more space, and to make it more functional as well. A few visual tricks can make a bathroom feel more spacious while a few storage solutions can make your bathroom appear larger and function better.

1. Install good light. Nothing opens up a room faster than good lighting. In the case of a small bathroom, recessed lights may be the best bet, as they can illuminate a space without taking up precious wall or ceiling space.

2. Invest in an extra narrow sink and vanity, or consider a pedestal sink. There’s no reason to feel stuck by the standard vanity size. Today, vanities are available in narrower sizes that provide a decent sink while not eating into precious floor space. IKEA offers one sink that fits the bill, but similar sinks can be found elsewhere. Another option that will open up floor space is a pedestal sink without all the bulk of a traditional cabinet vanity.

3. Make use of mirrors, the larger the better. Yes, you may think that mirrors went out with the 80s, but nothing beats opening up a bathroom like installing a large mirror. A mirror could mean one single large mirror over the sink, or it could be a series of mirrors in different frames for a different look.

4.  Look for built-in storage opportunities. One of the best ways to streamline a space and keep the eye moving about is to hide away toiletries and cosmetics. A sleek cabinet system, or better yet, building niches in your bathroom, is a great way to provide storage that doesn’t intrude visually on the space. So when working with an extra small bathroom, look for closed cabinet storage systems before you consider open shelves.

5. Choose pale colors for the walls, muted tones for accessories like shower curtains and towels. Bright colors can be fun, but they will tend to contract your space. So if you’re trying to make your space appear larger, opt for lighter, more muted colors and choose bath accessories that will tend to blend with wall colors rather than contrast.

6. Reveal as much of the space as you can . A bathroom will appear larger if you can see clear through to the shower or tub. So one visual trick you can use is choosing a clear glass shower door rather than a frosted glass. Similarly, a clear shower curtain may make your space seem larger than an opaque and patterned curtain.

7. Consider crown moulding. Rooms with high ceilings often appear larger than those with low ceilings, even if the square footage is the same. You can try making the ceiling of your bathroom appear higher by adding crown moulding to draw eyes upward. If you don’t want to use moulding, you might also consider shelves or a vertical wall ornament.

8. Look into wall-mounted toilets. One way to gain a little bit more floor space as well as the visual feeling of airyness is to investigate wall-mounted fixtures — not only wall mounted sinks and countertops, but also wall-mounted toilets.

9. Don’t forget the corners. A number of bathroom fixture manufacturers make pieces meant especially to slip into corners. Corner-mounted sinks and toilets can sometimes add more space to tight quarters.

Top right: Delineo, Bottom right: Smallplus, Bottom left: Moments by Artefakt.

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Design Dilemma: Small Bathroom, Big Ideas

Following the minimalist trend these days, the latest Duravit PuraVida bathtub manages to stand out and reflect the elegant spirit and the groundbreaking design. A modern take on luxury with completely subtle flowing lines and some geometry inspiration , the elegant bathtub comes with a softly outside and a spacious gently molded interior. Designed in collaboration with fixture manufacturer Hansgrohe and Phoenix Design, the exquisite bathtub manages to trigger new emotions we haven’t been used with. Soft and pure, with a natural form, it definitely looks like the perfect place to sink after a long day at the office.

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Minimalist Bathrooms: The Duravit PuraVida Bathtub

The bathroom is the place where one can fully relax, so it’s important to make it as pleasant as possible. Here is where Birex comes to help with their new bathroom compositions Versa. The series consists of 13 compositions that combine classic with modern, vintage with contemporary and bold with sophisticated, to create the ultimate bathroom environment. Ornate mirror frame stands next to a glossy minimalist bathroom cabinet and it looks like the most natural thing in the world – interesting, isn’t it? So, which one suits your style best?

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Versa by Birex – 13 new takes on modern bathroom