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UPGRADING YOUR SHOWER WITH PREMIUM FIXTURES
By Bob Curley
Stepping into a shower can be more than a routine to get clean — with the right premium shower fixtures, it can be a spa-like experience enjoyed every day at home. A bath space that incorporates GRAFF shower fixtures can utilize the power of water, light, and heat to help achieve a sense of full-body wellness and precision-engineered comfort. And the aesthetics of GRAFF’s artistic designs can enhance that feeling of wellness by inspiring positive emotions, creating a sense of tranquility and pleasure.
Inspired by the delicate strokes of Japanese kanji script as well as the movement, color, and density of water itself, the Ametis Collection includes sink faucets, tub spouts, and other bathroom fixtures. The pièce de résistance is the ring-shaped shower head (which can be paired with a matching hand shower, as well). Designed by Davide Oppizzi, GRAFF's Ametis shower head more resembles a halo than a nozzle.
Water doesn’t merely drip down from the Ametis ring; instead, a circle of small spigots inside the fixture propels droplets inward, creating a gentle, conical cascade. The showerhead also has a six-color chromotherapy ring that responds to the water temperature, adding to the soothing effect of the showerhead. It’s a feature that’s available in the Ametis Collection’s sink and tub faucets, too.
Chromotherapy may sound trendy, but healers have been using the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation — also known as light — for its health benefits for centuries. Holistic health practitioners say chromotherapy can heal physical, mental, and spiritual energy imbalances — a welcome enhancement to your daily bath routine!
The Ametis fixtures aren’t the only trend-setting GRAFF shower products. Inspired by the iconic American motorcycles, GRAFF’s sleek Harley Collection M-Series shower with a handshower is also available with a thermostatic system.
GRAFF’s Sento Collection is another minimalist collection with clean lines and elegant visual appeal. Angeletti Ruzza Design put the emphasis on combining lightness with strength in these shower head systems and wall and sink mounted lavatory, tub, sink, and bidet faucets. A triumph of form and function, the Sento shower heads can be paired with a thermostatic shower system to ensure that the water temperature remains constant when the shower is running.
Unlike a traditional mixing valve, which blends the flow of hot and cold water but can only be adjusted by hand, the thermostatic device used in the Sento shower head constantly monitors the temperature of the water flowing through the valve, throttling the hot or cold water coming through the pipes in response to detected temperature changes. This is to prevent your shower water from turning shockingly cold or scaldingly hot (or even annoyingly lukewarm).
Inspired by the iconic American motorcycles, GRAFF’s sleek Harley Collection M-Series shower with a handshower is also available with a thermostatic system.
GRAFF’s Topaz Collection is a bit more angular than the Ametis, Harley, and Sento collections: these Art Deco-inspired fixtures feature details like octagonal bases and jewel-shaped handles. Like the Sento fixtures, however, Topaz Collection shower heads can also be fitted with thermostatic sets.
The same is true of GRAFF’s Lauren, a collection with graceful, understated curves, which includes shower, sink, and bath fixtures finished in chrome or 24-karat gold. The Topaz and Lauren Collections may differ stylistically from the Sento and Ametis Collections, but when it comes to comfort, these premium fittings are all contemporaries.
1. GRAFF’s Ametis shower systems in polished Chrome finish
2. Ametis ring shower collection with chromotherapy in Brushed Gold finish
3. Aqua-Sense
4. MOD+ Bath