When it comes to creating sustainable aesthetic concepts, architects and planners shouldn’t have to worry about the need to make compromises, and with Duravit, they don’t. As with all of the company’s designs, technical know-how, craftsmanship and tradition form the basis of the company’s new Zencha bathroom series. When creating it, designer Sebastian Herkner relied explicitly on the use of natural materials to maximise quality as well as support a sustainable approach. DuraCeram® – an innovative evolution of classic ceramics based around the raw materials of clay, kaolin, quartz and feldspar – is used for the basins. Thanks to its special formulation, the material enables the creation of extremely thin wall thicknesses and a high level of dim…

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