Platinum Sanitary Ware · 2024
Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet
by Samuel Ross
- Platinum A' Design Award 2024 in Sanitary Ware
- CLIENT: Kohler and SR_A
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,537,231
- Verification code 0AAC657243 · Verify this award
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About Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet
Formation 01 is a limited edition bathroom faucet. The design combines a sculptural form with advanced engineering and is made from Neolast, a composite material that allows unexpected texture and rich, saturated color. Striking angles and a bold Haptic Orange finish depart from traditional expectations for a faucet. A 3D printed internal waterway creates a sheet flow of water. An embossed cast iron escutcheon plate refers to a long history of material innovation. The faucet measures 300 mm in width, 207 mm in depth and 135 mm in height.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Formation 01 Bathroom Faucet is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- The product’s striking angles and industrial bold Haptic
Orange color defy the traditional expectations of a bathroom faucet. The Kohler x SR_A collaboration embraces Samuel’s avant-garde artistic approach while honoring Kohler’s 150-year legacy of innovation and craftsmanship in the development of a new design language for water solutions. This new limited-edition faucet challenges how we engage daily with the form and function of an everyday object by pushing the boundaries of materials, forms, and colors. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 300mm Depth 207mm Height 135mm
- Tags
- Formation 01, Neolast, Haptic Orange, SR_A, Waterfall, Composite, 3D-printing
- Production Technology
- To realize Samuel Ross’ creative vision, Kohler invited him to explore an advanced new composite material that offers boundless form, unexpected texture, and rich, saturated colors. A 3D-printed internal waterway was developed to accomplish the unique sheet flow effect. An embossed cast iron escutcheon plate celebrates our collaboration in an homage to Kohler’s history of material innovation.
- Inspiration
- Combining dynamic gesture with advanced engineering, Formation 01 takes a familiar object and reimagines it as a functional sculpture in Kohler's dynamic Neolast composite material.
- Project Duration
- This project was initiated in late 2022 with collaboration between Kohler and SR_A's studios in the US and UK, respectively. The project launched at Design:Miami in 2023.
- Patents
- Patent: US20240044347A1 filed for Kohler Co. by Brian Douglas Renzelman, Andrew James Stokes, Joel Aldebaran Salazar Elorza, and Gary Clarke. Filed July 2023 in the USA
- Image Credits
- All image credits to Kohler Co., 2023