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Genna, who lives in Milnthorpe, not far from the company’s head office in Holme, Cumbria, joined Kudos Showers as part of their Quality and Technical team in 2018. Here she learnt about the company processes and its products, so when a vacancy came up in the customer support team, Genna was offered the role.  She will now be overseeing display installations for her showroom customers and ensuring that they are kept in good working order. She’ll be regularly visiting her displaying showroom accounts in the Northwest to help build Kudos sales.

Outside work Genna loves to horse ride and spend time with her family.

Kudos Shower Products Ltd has been designing and manufacturing shower products at their Cumbria facility since 1999.  Their portfolio includes shower enclosures, shower trays, over-bath screens and wet-room solutions sold via KBB showrooms and merchants across the UK.

Visit their website kudosshowers.co.uk, call them on 01539 564040 or email info@kudosshowers.co.uk.

With the many shades of blue continuing to influence contemporary bathroom design, PJH has added a new blue hue to its Bathrooms to Love furniture collection. Bold and eye-catching, the new deep blue modular Statement range has a tactile super matt finish and a choice of three sleek 20cm handles in brushed brass (pictured), matt black or polished chrome.

Statement offers high-quality and practical storage space as well as great design flexibility with a stylish range of choices to suit individual tastes. Available as either wall-hung or floor-standing (with a matt black basin unit frame), the singular basin units with two drawers come with either slim edge sit-in ceramic basin or with a worktop that can be teamed with a choice of vessel basins.  

Double wall-hung basin units feature four drawers and can also be combined with a choice of laminate worktop – White Slate, Matt Latte or Urban Black – as well as vessel basins (new Deep Blue Luxey Washbowl is pictured here), so a bespoke look is easily achieved. A Tall wall-hung unit completes the Deep Blue Statement range.

Generous storage space can be found in the deep drawers – with luxurious 8mm smoked glass sides and anti-slip drawer liners, as well as within the one-door tall units featuring interior shelves. Soft-close doors and drawers come as standard, complete with high-quality GRASS drawer boxes and BLUM hinges.

A five-year quality guarantee accompanies the sophisticated new Deep Blue Statement range from Bathrooms to Love, and display deals and furniture colour swatch samples are available. For more information or to order online, visit the PJH Partners Portal™ website.

Further information:

Bathrooms to Love by PJH: T: 0800 8 77 88 99  / www.partners.pjh.uk  / www.bathroomstolove.uk

The much-anticipated Pantone Colour of the Year for 2023 was announced last week and caused a stir as the gorgeous PANTONE 18-1750, Viva Magenta reached the design world.

Acquabella, a leading Spanish bathroom brand, is showcasing its award-winning Opal Quiz freestanding bath with a “Magenta Makeover”. The eye-popping Viva Magenta works beautifully with the unique shape and geometric lines.

The first-ever bath to be made from Akron, Opal Quiz offers something completely different. Akron is a composite material made of a mixture of resin with natural minerals and absolutely no silica. The new antibacerial Opal Quiz benefits from Akron’s extremely high-definition non-slip finish, is warm to the touch and is resistant to damage caused by impact.

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The Shower Lab

The Shower Lab has expanded its range of finishes for The Portrait Collection to include opulent Brushed Gold and an elegant Matt Black. When paired with new fluted glass and fixed panels, bath screens and sliders, it creates a uniform aesthetic that provides privacy and stylish discretion.

The Matt Black finish beautifully accents the new fluted glass panel to perfectly frame the bathroom.

Available in width from 1192 mm, and a generous height of 2000 mm – prices start at £1138 for a choice of 8 components and 10 glass finishes.

Bespoke options are available on request. Delivery is approximately 8 weeks from the order. Also available in Brushed Gold and Matt Bronze finishes.

Contact the Shower Lab for info on becoming a stockist info@theshowerlab.com

Products for children have to meet a variety of requirements: they must be safe, easy to use and robust. In addition, they must be easy to clean and hygienic. Products that are used in cots, nurseries, kindergartens or schools must be able to withstand high loads over the long term. HEWI products for children meet all these requirements.

Hewi-Kids washbasin

Washing hands and brushing teeth is much more fun when the wash place design is adapted to the needs of the little users. HEWI offers a comprehensive range of products for the washing area which, with its cheerful colours, virtually invites you to wash and splash around.

The small radii of the washbasins mean there are no corners or edges where children can bump into each other. The narrow rim as well as the compact design of the mineral CST washbasin allow even small children to reach the tap effortlessly.

The product range also includes mirrors, fittings and tumbler racks with hooks and accessories.

www.hewi.com

Revamping the bathroom or guest toilet doesn’t have to be difficult or too costly: matching bathroom accessories – from toilet-paper holders and toilet brush sets through to towel holders and hooks and soap dishes – can create an elegant, upscale look in the bathroom, whilst enabling you to display your personal furnishing style. Available in a uniform design, they offer the perfect solution for any furnishing style.

Timeless, modern and varied
Duravit’s “Karree”, “D-Code”, and “Starck T” accessories collections with their classic Chrome finish offer harmony and structure, with a timeless design for any taste and budget, the perfect bathroom accessory.

Matt Black is totally on trend and can create fashionable highlights in the bathroom. Whether a stylish wood optic or calming natural tones – accessories in Matt Black create a sophisticated, and timeless impression. Duravit satisfies all wishes in this category with its “Starck T” series, Design by Philippe Starck.

To stick or to drill?
It is not always possible to use a drill to fit bathroom accessories, Duravit offers the “Starck T” series as a self-adhesive variant and is especially appropriate for rental properties.

The size and price of the self-adhesive accessories from “Starck T” are also ideally suited as a unique
gift idea, e.g. as a house-warming present.

RAK-Petit, the designer bathroom collection from RAK Ceramics (created with compact spaces in mind), is offering new washbasin additions that promise to add luxury to bathroom designs.

Transforming this practical area of the bathroom into a stylish focal point, the RAK-Petit Round and Squared Countertop washbasins are the perfect addition to the en-suite or small bathroom. Standing at 340cm tall, the design of the new washbasins is inspired by the larger floorstanding models in the collection.

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Beautifully crafted from high quality ceramic, the countertop washbasins tap into the trends for curves and geometric lines in the bathroom. Minimal, elegant and functional, the washbasins are ideal for pairing with RAK-Petit Round and Square brassware to complete the picture.

Created for RAK Ceramics by renowned Italian designer Giuseppe Maurizio Scutellà, RAK-Petit is a collection of small washbasins designed with small spaces in mind. With minimal shapes and small dimensions, the collection includes deep-based washbasins that can be installed alone or combined with RAK-Joy vanity units.

Contact:

RAK Ceramics UK

01730 237850

www.rakceramics.com/uk/

CRL is offering a bespoke shower solution to retailers to allow them to give customers a choice of three elements – glass, hardware and large format surfaces. All options are tailor-made to fit.

Said to be a revolution in shower and wet room design, CRL Bespoke Shower Screens combine the latest innovations in CRL shower hardware with its luxury CRL Stone surfaces, for streamlined, hotel-inspired design.

Longstanding experts in shower hardware, CRL has supplied many of the top hotel groups and prestigious developments. Now, in a first for the industry, CRL is bringing bespoke showers to the market for retailers to offer their customers.

CRL Vienna

By partnering with local UK glass suppliers and fabricators, and in combination with CRL Stone, CRL has formed a unique partnership which takes the pain out of specifying showers.

Offering a completely new way of specifying shower enclosures and providing consumers with a tailor-made option, retailers can offer a bespoke solution with confidence, rather than a pre-configured shower from a single source that requires work-arounds.

Simon Boocock, managing director of CRL Europe, comments: “Bespoke doesn’t need to be complex and time consuming. With CRL, retailers can provide luxurious quality at an off-the-shelf price, helping to improve design possibilities with better margins.  Retailers no longer need to search around to pull all the elements together or stick to a boxed solution that isn’t necessarily right for the space.”

Designed for the perfect fit whether in the family bathroom, or as part of an en-suite extension in an existing master bedroom, CRL bespoke showers are ideal when working with awkward shapes and sizes in rooms such as in corners and under eaves.

Using high quality minimalist hardware for the latest in frameless showering, CRL can accommodate any design for all projects and all spaces, with popular finishes including Chrome, Antique Brass, Brushed Nickel, Matte Black and Polished Copper featuring across the different systems.

Highly durable and simple to care for, Ceralsio ceramic and Inalco MDi from CRL Stone is the perfect wall and floor surface solution for the shower area. In a large slab format that can be perfectly cut to size at the same time as the glass, with no grout lines creating a super-stylish and ultra hardwearing floor-to-ceiling wall surface. In fact, the material is ideal for the bathroom, being water resistant, heat, scratch and stain resistant and non-porous.

Offering shower enclosures to the market in a completely new way, this made-to-measure option from a market-leader gives retailers and designers the opportunity to provide a high-end, bespoke finish at a competitive price point.

For more details visit www.crlbespokeshowerscreens.co.uk or call 01706 863600.

For many, the question of how to take concrete, tangible steps to fight climate change still remains, with many seeking actionable tips and advice. To explore how experts in their fields are addressing sustainability issues, and to enable exchange on the full bandwidth of environmental challenges, GROHE X has launched the podcast “Together For Sustainability”. It aims to provide inspiration, stimulate discussion, and encourage action. With new topic-specific episodes released every month, the podcast will cover subjects such as water, resources, the circular economy, and the sustainable building industry.

Progress requires learning
Podcast host Marcella Hansch, CEO of the everwave foundation, has been dedicated to creating healthy oceans and rivers for years and her foundation puts emphasis on environmental education. The social business everwave cleans rivers and protects the sea from plastic through its use of clean-up technologies, fighting the waste crisis and supporting our ecosystems.

In the six-episode podcast series Marcella talks to scientists, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers about their fields of expertise. In line with the motto of the podcast, dialogue is at the heart of the new format. The goal of “Together For Sustainability” is to serve as a platform for sharing insights to create renewed motivation. Instead of doomsday scenarios, listeners are informed about specific topics, impactful solutions and inspiring projects that demonstrate how the climate crisis can be tackled.

“If you want to save and protect something, you need to know it. And if you know something, or you love
it, then you can protect it,” says Hansch about the intention behind the podcast and the importance of
education and dialogue as the motivation for progress. She explains the objective is “not to tell people
you did wrong things, but showing people to motivate them, to inspire them and to say, ’you can change
the world!’. If we work all together, we really can make a change.”

Launch episode: the ocean
The first episode of the podcast investigates the ocean and its potential for solutions to the climate crisis. Covering most of the Blue Planet, it is not only significantly impacted by global warming, but is also increasingly becoming an area of focus for new solutions at leader discussions such as COP27. Hansch and her guest, oceanographer and climate scientist Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck, who are both part of the committee of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, discuss how they aim to make a tangible impact on the ocean. From the digitisation of the ocean, and its importance for carbon storage and absorption, to providing knowledge for decision-makers and promoting education and engagement.

“My wish for the future is that we first recognise that we have a joint future. Second, that the future that we are going to have depends on our actions today and tomorrow, and that we should use all available information and knowledge, including that of sciences, to think about what the good outcomes for all of us are,” says Prof. Dr. Visbeck.

Listen to the first episode of the new podcast “Together for Sustainability” on the digital experience
platform GROHE X.

Saniflo UK – a market-leading manufacturer of pumps, macerators, and lifting stations – is growing its sales team with the appointment of Conor Reeves as National Account Manager.

Conor’s background includes more than a decade in the pump sector of the plumbing and heating industry, with experience looking after key accounts in both the UK and MENA regions, plus plumbing engineering. Conor brings a wealth of technical and account management experience to Saniflo. Based in the south of England, Conor’s remit will maintain and develop Saniflo’s national key accounts, driving strategies and activities at all levels of the business.
 
Conor says: “I’m looking forward to getting to know Saniflo’s national account customer base and building on some of my existing relationships. Being a market leader, Saniflo has a powerful and well-respected name, so I’m delighted to join a company known for its outstanding technical expertise and after-sales service. In addition, the wider SFA group capabilities stood out to me, giving me the confidence that we can provide a solution to any lifting station requirements our customers may have.”