The bathroom has long since become a homely lifestyle room. This is also reflected in the fact that a wide range of colours has replaced white and chrome, which for a long time had set the tone in the bathroom. The use of colour opens up additional scope for individual design and is at the same time an expression of personal style preferences. The current trend here is for both elegant metallic and warm, matt surfaces.

The wild desire for colours
With eight new surface finishes for its single-lever basin mixers from the successful Kludi-Nova Fonte Pura range, sanitary supplier Kludi is providing new options for individualising bathroom de-sign. In addition to the chrome, matt black and matt white finishes already available, the mixer series is now also available in the scratch-resistant PVD colours Brushed Gold, Brushed Bronze and Brushed Gunmetal, as well as in the matt powder coatings light dove grey, dove grey, turquoise, light blue and vermilion. "In this way, we are not only giving additional impetus to creativity and the joy of design, but we are also making it possible for everyone to celebrate their own personal visual world and make a strong statement through the use of colours," emphasises Leonardo de Muro, Group Marketing Vice President. This is all the more true as Kludi's new range will in future include not only fittings but also washbasins, accesso-ries and furniture in a wide range of colours, finishes and materials, allow-ing a multitude of exciting combination options. "There are no limits to the imagination here," says Leonardo de Muro.

Elegant matt, noble brilliance
Kludi uses two innovative processes for the coating of its fittings. For matt pastel and colour tones, which are currently in vogue in interior design, an innovative powder coating is used that brings out the matt colours particularly well. The fittings are finished with an electrostatically charged powder coating. The powder is extra-fine ground polyurethane and epoxy resin, both of which are highly chemically and mechanically resistant. This gives the surfaces a special resistance and durability. At the same time, powder coating is considered an environmentally friendly painting process, as solvents can be dispensed with.

In order to apply shiny surface variants such as the gold, bronze and black metal shades that are particularly in vogue at the moment, in excellent quality and perfect brilliance, Kludi uses the physical vapour deposition process - PVD for short. In this process, the fittings are physically vapour-deposited in special vacuum chambers by inert gas mixtures that are ignited in a magnetic field. The composition of the gas mixture determines the colour tone. PVD surfaces are around ten times harder than chrome variants. They are therefore considered extremely hard-wearing and durable. "Whether matt or shiny metallic surfaces - both coating processes ensure that our customers enjoy their coloured fittings for a long time," Leonardo de Muro is certain.