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Bathrooms awash with style
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The bathroom, once a little-mentioned part of the house, has come into its own as designers boost its status. Not just a place for washing, the bathroom has been elevated to a place of meditation and indulgence.
Designer Christo Lefroy Brooks describes bathrooms as "the sort of chapel of the house." He designs simple baths as he sees people wanting simplicity in their lives. "They're getting away from the work environment to something terribly simple, something basic, Zen, almost sort of a spiritual environment." A more traditional example of a bathroom is found at Momo's restaurant in London, designed by Mourad Mazouz. Painted in dark browns and reds, the door and sink are from Morocco, the table from Cairo and the lamp from Istanbul, Turkey. "There is an old legend in France where we judge a restaurant by its bathroom," said Mazouz. "It makes a cosy, nice, colourful atmosphere, because I think toilets always need to be beautiful." In designing a bathroom for the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome, Ed Tuttle wanted "a rich experience." "In any hotel, the bathroom versus the rest of the space needs to be equally as well designed and equally stimulating." The custom-made taps give an added touch of class: "They are very important... because they are the things that people touch, the things they feel, they sense quality." But comfort is of utmost importance, according to designer Nick Candy. "More people live on their own than ever before, more people like to indulge themselves more they've got more disposable income -- it comes down to why bathrooms change and have become more important." Designer Ayse Birsel, displeased with the design of the toilet seat as a plastic shield around the ceramic part, designed "a chair with a hole in it." "The back of it swoops up, almost giving you back support, the front of it swoops down so it doesn't cut into your legs." With a remote-controlled bidet and a heated seat, she said her design had "been called the most comfortable toilet seat in the world and made me into a toilet queen of sorts."
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