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VAIA

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Editorial Overview:
The document introduces the Dornbracht VAIA design concept, which merges traditional elegance with contemporary clarity, inspired by the Transitional Style trend. It highlights contributions from designers Rafael de Cárdenas and Neri & Hu, who offer unique interpretations of this style.

Architecture:
Designers Rafael de Cárdenas and Neri & Hu are featured for their innovative designs embodying the Transitional Style. De Cárdenas' work is noted for its strategic, cosmopolitan, and atmospheric qualities, blending past influences with future aspirations. His design includes chapel-like niches and a transparent dome that integrates natural light, creating a dynamic interplay between traditional and modern elements.

Design Elements:
The document details various materials used in the VAIA design, such as brick, Corian, smoked glass, and Dark Platinum Matt. These materials create a bathroom space that balances tradition and modernity, featuring monolithic washstands and contrasting textures.

Product Information:
The VAIA collection is characterized by its elegant and mysterious aesthetic, particularly in the Dark Platinum Matt finish. The design emphasizes natural, organic shapes and functional lines, exemplified by the round bathtub and freestanding bath mixer.

Conclusion:
The document concludes by focusing on the versatility and innovation of the VAIA design, showcasing its harmonious integration into various architectural contexts. It provides insights into Rafael de Cárdenas' design philosophy, emphasizing a strategic approach to contemporary design.

Overview:
The document discusses the concept of 'Transitional Style' in architecture, particularly in bathroom design, as envisioned by Neri & Hu. It emphasizes integrating traditional Asian influences with modern design elements to create spaces that are both progressive and healing.

Main Sections:

Material Selection: The document outlines materials used in the design process, such as polished and honed marbles, wool fabrics, and glass with mirror effects, chosen for their aesthetic and functional qualities.
Design Philosophy: Neri & Hu's approach to Transitional Style focuses on the bathroom as a space for regeneration and transition, with the washstand as a central, communicative element.
Architectural Elements: The use of materials like marble, brass, and platinum matt against raw concrete walls enhances existing structures with new elements, balancing old and new.
Emotional and Cultural Significance: Water is portrayed as a symbol of emotional and physical healing, reflecting its cultural significance in Asia, creating spaces offering contemplative warmth.
Conceptual Spaces: The 'Courtyard House' concept emphasizes an introverted design where light enters from the center, creating a unique spatial experience.

Key Takeaways:
The document underscores the importance of materiality, light, and cultural influences in creating transitional spaces that are both functional and emotionally resonant. The collaboration with Dornbracht explores these themes through innovative architectural designs.

Introduction:
The document explores the concept of 'Transitional Style' in architecture, focusing on bathroom design. It emphasizes the importance of materials and their interaction with the environment, highlighting the juxtaposition of raw versus refined and cold versus warm elements.

Concept of Transitional Style:
NERI & HU explore 'Transitional Style' as a blend of traditional and contemporary elements, with the bathroom as a space for regeneration and transition.

Material Interaction:
The document discusses the intentional use of materials like concrete, stone, metals, and water, which change with light and seasons, enhancing the transitional narrative.

Design Philosophy:
NERI & HU emphasize research as a design tool, focusing on program, site, function, and history to create meaning through experience, detail, material, form, and light.

Design Examples:
Examples like 'Ton sur Ton' and 'Multitude' illustrate the versatile and progressive elegance of the VAIA series, balancing classic and modern elements.

Conclusion:
The document concludes with a discussion on the VAIA series, embodying a soft, balanced design language and openness to new ideas, encouraging creativity and intuition in interpreting the Transitional Style.

Design and Aesthetics:
VAIA is characterized by its elegant and progressive design, featuring soft radii, fine silhouettes, and flowing transitions, adaptable to various contemporary furnishing styles.

Craftsmanship and Features:
The VAIA series showcases precision craftsmanship with meticulously defined joints and an integrated aerator hidden in the spout, blending smoothly into diverse interior styles.

Finishes:
The DARK PLATINUM MATT finish offers warmth and originality, fitting harmoniously into darker bathroom interiors or creating contrasts in brighter environments.

Product Range:
The document provides detailed specifications for VAIA products, including basin mixers, shower sets, and bath mixers, ensuring compatibility with different plumbing standards.

Accessories:
A range of accessories complements the VAIA series, enhancing bathroom functionality.

Innovation and Architecture:
Innovation in design emerges from thoughtful overstepping and skillful combinations, with collaborations showcasing the integration of VAIA products in architectural projects.

Catalog excerpts

Dornbracht VAIA Contents BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ELEGANCE AND CONTEMPORARY COOL 3D model: Rafael de Cárdenas Dornbracht VAIA Create a new balance EDITORIAL p. 03 ARCHITECTURE Rafael de Cárdenas p. 04 DORNBRACHT VAIA DARK PLATINUM MATT p. 52 PRODUCT INFORMATION p. 54 ARCHITECTURE Neri & Hu p. 22 Sketch: Lyndon Neri

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Dornbracht VAIA Contents BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ELEGANCE AND CONTEMPORARY COOL 3D model: Rafael de Cárdenas Transitional Style, a healthy balance between tried-and-tested features and new characteristics that is thought through, inviting and quickly makes you feel at home. EN Transitional Style, un sano equilibrio tra convenzionale e nuovo, ponderato, accogliente e che fa subito sentire a casa propria. IT Rafael de Cárdenas ARCHITECTURE Rafael de Cárdenas p. 04 Transitional Style, un equilibrado balance entre lo nuevo y lo conocido, meditado, acogedor y que proporciona la sensación de estar en casa....

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Dornbracht VAIA Editorial “We favour the strategic over the thematic, the cosmopolitan over the typological and the atmospheric over the static. Ever focused on the contemporary, we take diligent note of the past while day-dreaming the future.” Rafael de Cárdenas “In Asia, water to us is not just something that is for drinking, it’s not just something for cleansing, for us, water means a lot of emotional healing and physical healing.” Lyndon Neri EN The analysis of current design trends has always been an important source of inspiration for Dornbracht. VAIA is another result of this engagement...

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Dornbracht VAIA Architecture FROM PAST TO PRESENT p. R D C– 0 1 Inspired by the ideas of Rafael de Cárdenas. 05 Brick and Corian, smoked glass and moss, bog oak, marble and DARK PLATINUM MATT, cognac-coloured leather and purple carpeted floors: here traces of wear meet new gloss, curved arches meet monoliths rich in edges, nature meets architecture. The bathroom as a progressive area of tension between tradition and modernity. Thus the fluid boundaries of Transitional Style are impressively in motion. EN I T Mattoni e Corian, vetro brunito e muschio, legno nero, marmo e DARK PLATINUM MATT, pelle...

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Dornbracht VAIA Architecture A raw brickwork lattice curved into a niche and inside: a monolithic washstand made from cubes of various materials. Un abbinamento rustico con mattoni che formano una nicchia concava che all’interno ospita un lavabo monolitico realizzato con cubi di materiali diversi. Una unión de ladrillo bruto ondeante sobre un nido para formar un hueco y, dentro: un lavabo monolítico de cubos de diferentes materiales

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Dornbracht VAIA Architecture Elegant and mysterious: VAIA in DARK PLATINUM MATT with a dark under-mounted basin, tone-on-tone with the washstand. Prezioso e segreto: VAIA in DARK PLATINUM MATT con lavabo sottopiano, tono su tono con il piano del lavabo. Noble y misterioso: VAIA en DARK PLATINUM MATT, con una encimera oscura del mismo tono que el lavabo.

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Contrast of the textures: smooth, precisely worked materials meet rough, original surfaces. Contrasto tra le strutture: materiali lisci e lavorati con precisione incontrano superfici grezze e primordiali. Contraste de las texturas: los materiales lisos, trabajados con precisión, se encuentran con superficies crudas y naturales.

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Natural, organic shapes and functional, clear-cut lines: the round bathtub and the free-standing bath mixer in DARK PLATINUM MATT fit perfectly into the architecture. Forme naturali ed organiche e linee chiare e funzionali: la vasca da bagno rotonda e la sua rubinetteria freestanding in DARK PLATINUM MATT s’inseriscono perfettamente nell’architettura. Formas orgánicas naturales y líneas claras y funcionales: la bañera redonda y la batería para bañera montada de forma independiente en DARK PLATINUM MATT se integran perfectamente en la arquitectur

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TRANSITIONAL STYLE A draft by Rafael de Cárdenas A video on the creation of the VAIA architecture can be found at: dornbracht.com/vaia Il filmato sulla nascita dell’architettura VAIA può essere visto all’ indirizzo: dornbracht.com/vaia by Encontrará el vídeo sobre el origen R A F A E L D E C Á R D E N A S de la arquitectura VAIA en: A R C H I T E CT U R E AT dornbracht.com/vaia N ew Yor k “ We fa vo ur t h e S T R AT E G I C over t h e T H EM AT I C , t h e C O S M O P O L I TA N over t h e T Y P O LO G I C A L an d t h e AT M O S P H ER I C over t h e S TAT I C . Ever fo cus e d on t h e C O...

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TRANSITIONAL STYLE A draft by Rafael de Cárdenas A video on the creation of the VAIA architecture can be found at: dornbracht.com/vaia Il filmato sulla nascita dell’architettura VAIA può essere visto all’ indirizzo: dornbracht.com/vaia R a f a e l d e C á r d e n a s A R C H I T E CT U R E AT L A R G E, N E W YO R K Encontrará el vídeo sobre el origen de la arquitectura VAIA en: dornbracht.com/vaia GL ASS FINS ALETTE IN VETRO A L E TA S D E V I D R I O RAFAEL DE CÁRDENAS’ interpretation of Transi tional Style is distinguished, in particular, through the unusual shape of the room. Chapel-like...

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TRANSITIONAL STYLE A draft by Rafael de Cárdenas A video on the creation of the VAIA architecture can be found at: dornbracht.com/vaia Il filmato sulla nascita dell’architettura VAIA può essere visto all’ indirizzo: dornbracht.com/vaia IT “ Prefer iam o la ST R AT EGI A alla T EM AT I CA , il C O S M O P O LIT I S M O alla T I P O LO GI A e L’AT M O S FER A alla STAT I CA . S empre at tent i alla C O N T EM P O R A N EITÀ abbiam o un o c chio di r iguardo ver s o il PAS S ATO p er I M M AGI N A R E il FU T U R O.” Encontrará el vídeo sobre el origen de la arquitectura VAIA en: dornbracht.com/vaia...

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TRANSITIONAL STYLE A draft by Rafael de Cárdenas A video on the creation of the VAIA architecture can be found at: dornbracht.com/vaia Il filmato sulla nascita dell’architettura VAIA può essere visto all’ indirizzo: dornbracht.com/vaia Encontrará el vídeo sobre el origen de la arquitectura VAIA en: dornbracht.com/vaia

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