INO BY TOAN NGUYEN TOAN NGUYEN: It was a great opportunity Continuing the path of collaboration already begun to work with a new material, which hardly in 2011 and having won a Red Dot Award, Laufen ever happens. SaphirKeramik is dense and decided without hesitation to focus on Toan Nguyen strong yet very fine, its lines very precis e. It’s like traditional ceramic in that it’s hygien ic and in raising the stakes, entrusting parts of the and shares the same production processes. new proposals for 2015 t o him. The first design – a But, while it’s made of ceramic, it’s also modern, wallmounted washbasin incorporating an integrated very highperformance. The material is like a fruit with a thin skin: when you unpeel it there ’s bladelike shelf on one side – had a very iconic, a lot of fruit inside. asymmetric shape. Eliminating the wider edge around a conventional basin allows for a more generously sized washbasin. Its emphasis is more on lines and surface than on volume. Toan has completed his collection with some bowls and semirecessed washbasins, 2 bathtubs made of Sentec and, in keep ing with the spirit of SaphirKeramik, very thinwalled, strong aluminium bathroom furniture fronted with wood veneer. The washbasin with an edge radius of 1–2 mm is still soft The raw piece is handled with the greatest and delicate while being demoulded. attention and devotion.