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My favorite place - Trendbook Pop up my Bathroom | Issue 01/2011 ISH 2011

Today’s bathrooms are no longer chilly, wipe-clean functional cells. Bathrooms are turning into living space. As simple as this meanwhile ubiquitously manifest megatrend might sound, its impact on the sanitary industry and the conceptual possibilities for bathroom design are nothing short of revolutionary. As a result, expectations of the aesthetics and functionality of contemporary bathroom design are growing. Accordingly, there will be more than “just” new products on show at the world’s leading fair for the sanitary industry, the ISH in Frankfurt. For it is not the bathtub that is being reinvented, but the entire bathroom.

Today’s bathrooms are no longer chilly, wipe-clean functional cells. Bathrooms are turning into living space. As simple as this meanwhile ubiquitously manifest megatrend might sound, its impact on the sanitary industry and the conceptual possibilities for bathroom design are nothing short of revolutionary. As a result, expectations of the aesthetics and functionality of contemporary bathroom design are growing. Accordingly, there will be more than “just” new products on show at the world’s leading fair for the sanitary industry, the ISH in Frankfurt. For it is not the bathtub that is being reinvented, but the entire bathroom.

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Making of<br />

<strong>My</strong> <strong>favorite</strong> <strong>place</strong><br />

Die Fotoserien zeigen Bäder an ungewöhnlichen<br />

Orten: in einer alten Fabrik, in einem<br />

Gewächshaus, in einem Schloss. Sie stehen<br />

stellvertretend für unterschiedliche Umgebungen<br />

– für ein urbanes Umfeld, ein Leben<br />

inmitten der Natur und für ein luxuriös-gediegenes<br />

Ambiente. Die Inszenierungen sollen<br />

das Bad aus seinem konventionellen Kontext<br />

entrücken, um sein gestalterisches Potenzial<br />

aufzuzeigen. Dabei wird das jeweilige Trendkonzept<br />

in einen emotionalen Bezug zum<br />

Nutzer gestellt, dessen Fantasien hier – unter<br />

der Betonung auf <strong>my</strong> <strong>Bathroom</strong> – verwirklicht<br />

wurden.<br />

Als die Kerzen in der Fabrikhalle angingen und<br />

die Fenster blau wurden, wollte keiner mehr<br />

gehen. Auch dem Zauber der halb vergessenen,<br />

mit kleinen Schätzen angefüllten Gewächshausreihen<br />

konnte sich das Team nicht entziehen.<br />

Und das Schloss am Rand der Eifel präsentierte<br />

sich uns als verwunschener, von einem Schneevorhang<br />

eingehüllter Ort.<br />

Jede der drei Locations war eine Herausforderung<br />

– an die Logistik (vielen Dank nochmals an<br />

die Elmer Logistik GmbH, ohne deren tatkräftige<br />

und mitdenkende Unterstützung das Projekt<br />

wohl gescheitert wäre), für die Messebauer der<br />

Sanitärunternehmen, die uns in der Fabrik und<br />

im Schloss gerettet haben, die Bühnenbauer<br />

und Helfer, die permanent improvisieren durften,<br />

die Models, die am meisten gefroren haben,<br />

die „Denker“ im Hintergrund, die Laufbänder<br />

schleppen und sich mit künstlerischen Freiheiten<br />

herumschlagen mussten, die Stylistin, die<br />

um jedes ihrer mitgebrachten oder entliehenen<br />

Babys zitterte (und die im Gewächshaus zwar<br />

keinen Seifenkäfer verlor, dafür aber ein Vasenopfer<br />

zu beklagen hatte) und für den Fotografen,<br />

der es schwer hatte, es allen recht zu machen<br />

und dabei die Zeit zu schlagen („Jetzt stimmt<br />

das Licht“). Dafür hatte er immerhin das letzte<br />

Wort. Nur der Gärtnerei-eigene Kakadu hatte<br />

nichts, worüber es sich zu schimpfen gelohnt<br />

hätte. Höchstens, dass es nicht genügend<br />

Leckereien gab, um Vogel, Freischaffende und<br />

zeitweilig am Set anzutreffende Kinder vollständig<br />

zufrieden zu stellen. Aber das gelingt ja<br />

sowieso niemals.<br />

58<br />

Making of<br />

<strong>My</strong> <strong>favorite</strong> <strong>place</strong><br />

The photo spreads show bathrooms in unusual<br />

<strong>place</strong>s: an old factory, a greenhouse,<br />

a castle. They are intended to represent<br />

different environments – an urban setting, a<br />

life in the midst of nature and a luxuriously<br />

dignified ambiance. The scenographies are<br />

meant to remove the bathroom from its conventional<br />

context so as to reveal its creative<br />

potential. Each of the spreads establishes an<br />

emotional relationship between the respective<br />

trend concept and the user, whose fantasies –<br />

with the emphasis on <strong>my</strong> bathroom – have been<br />

turned into reality.<br />

Once the candles in the old factory hall were lit<br />

and the windows had turned a seductive shade<br />

of blue, nobody wanted to go home. Nor was the<br />

team immune to the magic of the half-forgotten<br />

rows of greenhouses and the wealth of little<br />

treasures they contained. And the castle at the<br />

edge of the Eifel Mountains seemed to us like<br />

an enchanted <strong>place</strong> wrapped in a blanket of<br />

snow.<br />

Each of the three locations was a challenge – for<br />

the logistics (many thanks to Elmer Logistik<br />

GmbH, without whose energetic and resourceful<br />

s<strong>up</strong>port the project would probably have<br />

been a flop), for the booth builders from the<br />

sanitaryware companies, who saved our bacon<br />

both in the factory and at the castle, for the<br />

stage builders and helpers who had to improvise<br />

constantly, for the models who felt the cold<br />

more than anybody else, for the “thinkers” in<br />

the background who had to haul the treadmills<br />

and grapple with the “artistic freedom” exercised<br />

by others, for the stylist, who was trembling<br />

with concern for each and every one of the<br />

babies she had brought along or borrowed<br />

(and who, although she didn’t lose a single<br />

soap beetle in the greenhouse, was nevertheless<br />

left mourning the loss of a vase) and for<br />

the photographer who had a hard time trying<br />

to please everybody and beat the clock (“Now<br />

the light is just right”). But at least he had the<br />

final word. The only individual with nothing to<br />

complain about was the cockatoo we borrowed<br />

from the nursery. Except perhaps that he might<br />

have been a bit peeved that there weren’t enough<br />

goodies to satisfy the cravings of the bird, the<br />

freelancers and the kids who occasionally<br />

turned <strong>up</strong> on the set. But then again, that’s<br />

an impossible task at the best of times.

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