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[February 2008]
Duravit Bags Burj Contract For ‘Barrel’ – Plus Thousands of WCs
The UAE’s Burj in Dubai, built by Emaar Properties, is the tallest building in the world and will stand over 700 metres high when completed.
The tower will feature the ‘barrel’ made by German bathroom products manufacturer, Duravit. In the last 20 years, this bathroom manufacturer with headquarters in Hornberg in Germany’s Black Forest has successfully pursued an explicit design strategy and, in collaboration with high-profile names such as Philippe Starck, Sieger Design and Lord Norman Foster, has developed bathroom and wellness products that stand out not only on the strength of their unusual design but also their good value for money.
“We offer everything in bathroom design, ranging from jeans to dinner jacket,” says Franz Kook, Management Board Chairman of Duravit. The ‘barrel’ is a vanity unit designed for Duravit by Philippe Starck in 1994. He was inspired by primitive forms, such as the washing bowl, bucket, hand pump and nail.
Over the years, the ‘Starck barrel’ has become Duravit’s best-selling item of bathroom furniture and it is now moving into the luxury skyscraper. Duravit will deliver more than 1,000 barrels to Dubai, as well as almost 4,000 WCs and bidets and more than 1,600 baths and whirlpools. The company said that this very pleasing contract was worth millions of euro and represented a complete service that would doubtlessly open more doors and perhaps also a few more towers for the German bathroom manufacturer.
ENDS