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NEWS Select your Shower PleaSure

Select your Shower PleaSure Dear reader, It is a well-known fact that here at Hansgrohe, we never stop reinventing showering pleasure. Today it has “clicked” again: we have the new Select technology! Now a simple touch of a button is all it takes for the water to be just as the user wants it. As small as it is, the Select button combines many of the things that our products are renowned for: the best design, intelligent functions and excellent user-friendliness. How did the button get into the bathroom? From several directions at once, you could say. We found, during research into...

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* THINKING AHEAD TECHNOLOGY WITH A BACKGROUND. Talking to the brains behind the buttons Shower types up close

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Select your Shower Pleasure Hand and overhead showers with character Easy control with the ShowerTablet Shower set – showering becomes a pleasure Showerpipe – to the power of three Concealed thermostats with Select Delicious design for the kitchen Hand showers and shower sets Overhead showers and ShowerTablet iBox and ShowerSelect finish sets Kitchen mixers Hansgrohe mobile

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Select your Shower Pleasure MAKE THE FUTURE EASIER. Back in the 1960s, when films and books showed us the future, everything seemed to flash. The vision: the more buttons there were, the easier daily life was supposed to be. Today is yesterday’s future, and it’s true ‒ there are buttons everywhere. But the more there are, the more functions we need to remember that go with them. For instance, surround-sound television often requires several remote controls, and that opens up a whole new range of questions: is this button for switching on the speakers or the TV? Why is it so loud – and...

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CLICK CREDIT INTO YOUR TIME ACCOUNT. It’s the same story every evening. “I’m definitely going to get up early tomorrow!” And it’s the same story every morning. No sooner has the alarm gone off, than a tired hand sneaks its way towards the snooze button. I can have ten more minutes … A quick look at the time after two more presses of the snooze button, and – just like yesterday – the clock is further ahead than you are. Now it’s time to get a move on. A touch of a button, and the delicious fragrance of coffee fills the air while the shower switches on in the bathroom. Click! The electric...

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Select your Shower Pleasure Simply brilliant, brilliantly simple. Select is the Hansgrohe innovation for 2013. The original button was created in close cooperation between Hansgrohe and Phoenix Design. NEWS met up for a chat with two of the brains behind the button: Jan Heisterhagen (Hansgrohe Product Management) and Matthias Oesterle (Product Designer Phoenix Design). NEWS: And so then you sent it to Hansgrohe: ‘It’s done; here you are.’ NEWS: Shower control at the touch of a button. It’s actually something that makes complete sense, so why hasn’t it been around for longer? Jan...

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press a button rather than turn things also provides improved user-friendliness – consider the ageing population, for instance. We don’t just want to include our innovations in a few exclusive Jan Heisterhagen: We didn’t think that these discs – and thus “lighthouse products”, but to make them as widely usable as the spray types – were being used that much. They were too possible – which is why the Select technology is also essential in complicated; you needed both hands, and there was quite our Raindance showers and thermostats. a large distance to cover with just a small lever. In the...

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Select your Shower Pleasure SHOWER TYPES UP CLOSE. Every developer is delighted by what he does, loves tinkering and always doing things differently. And when it comes to a product that is as close to the individual as the shower, then it must not only be driven by his empowerment to improve the status quo. What counts is how the result feels against the skin – and that is something that only real people can answer. Hansgrohe has created restricted access prototype testing areas in the Showerlab and Showerworld where its products undergo practical testing. Hansgrohe employee Saskia Schmid...

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Pleasure showerer with RainAir. Of course, a prototype is nowhere near a finished product, and in particular is not made from the final material. In fact, one of my test showerers suf fered a spray failure, and he was most concerned that this would put the whole expensive test series at risk. But we were quickly able to reassure him – these things do happen, from time to time. We had our first usable insights at the end of the first test series: the “Whirl” spray needed to be harder. With this mode, a number of single sprays revolve around each other in a screw-like shape, and this then...

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For pleasure-lovers, relaxers and refreshers.

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Select your Shower Pleasure

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Select your Shower Pleasure … and what showering type are you? Not everyone wants water to be the same, which is why the new hand showers have plenty of personality. Raindance ® Select E 120 3jet hand shower Gentle shower rain to enjoy with air- enriched drops from large jets. Strong shower rain from small jets – perfect for rinsing shampoo out of the hair. Concentrated massaging spray from rotating jets to relieve tension. Switches over to a different spray type intuitively and in moments, and provides pleasure at the touch of a button.

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PLEASURE SHOWERING. Pleasure showerers like to take their time in the bathroom, and seek relaxation. They like to wash the day’s stresses away, drop by drop. When the water runs down them like rain, nothing and no one can disturb them. They are not only interested in body care, but they also want their soul to be pampered by the water. The lavish, soft RainAir spray is perfect for them. EFFICIENT SHOWERING. When an efficient showerer steps under the shower, they want to be refreshed when they come out. Sometimes it only takes them a few minutes to achieve the desired results. The shower...

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