The bathroom, during the years, its always adapted to the multiple trends of furniture. The 60’s for example, influenced by the artistic movement Pop Art, cause a profound change in the search for forms, colors and materials, a real revolution on the concept of design and the way of thinking about the house and its spaces. It is a decade of experimentation in all areas: art, fashion, design, which represented a moment of total innovation, greatly influencing the way of designing. The most impressive change there was color, neutral, muted tones have given way to bright colors and geometric patterns, creating an era of colorful unprecedented.
These are the years when Italy kicks off an important industrialization process in the furniture design industry, a phenomenon that will lead and create functional products and winning aesthetics: many items of furniture in fact have become icons of contemporary design. Even in the bathroom furniture comes this influence industry. The sanitary ware become an object of study, so that their design will mark the history of the bathroom furnishing.
The 60s and the explosion of cheerful and intense tones
With the economic boom comes a wave of innovation and creativity, which will create a new way of conceiving the bathroom aesthetics. All the furnishings assume bright tones and intense, giving the bathroom more freshness and joy.
The classic white tone leaves room to new colors distinctly strong sometimes conflicting: colors like green, purple, electric blue, yellow, give the place an overwhelming explosive charge. A feature that encloses all the vitality of the designers of those years.
New forms
The development of production processes of sanitary ware allows companies to produce in large scale and at a lower cost. Also the influences of artists and designers bring greater attention to the products and their performance, sometimes even exceeding the volumes and proposing extreme forms, highlighting the lines which draw the product and intervening on surfaces with relief decorations. The bathroom is enriched with collections composed vase and cistern, bidets and washbasins, of various types, also called ornamental series.
The style of the past comes back to the current trends. Flaminia proposes several collections and sanitary ware lines, basin and accessories for the bathroom decor, which is also inspired by the dynamism of the ‘60s
Visiting the products page on the official Flaminia website, you can discover all kinds of bathroom ceramics and home accessories, ideal for those who want to propose a colorful and expressive environment, including the beautiful Flaminia Archive section, dedicated to the classical tradition of bathrooms of the last century.
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