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CONCEPT NO. 1. IN ITS CAPACITY AS A PRIVATE TEMPLE, the modular bathroom that is taking hold in large urban areas shuns all interference and surrenders its materials to the exclusive service of a mental attitude. This blend between Zen aesthetics and geometry in its pure state looks to the user as its reference point. Everything in this bathroom on the ground floor of a rationalist-style house that was recently remodelled in the El Viso district of Madrid is done on the scale of that solitary bather. The decorators used an L-shaped space to connect a selection of the best pieces from three important international brands of bathroom-furnishing design and ceramic coverings: Noken, System-Pool and Venis. The ochre of the floor and wall give way to a rainbow of jungle color, from the freshness of the leaf-green decorative elements to the relaxing dark brown of the wenge carpentry work that that covers the skirting board and back of the sink. The expressive strength of this space stems from a long bench that invites one to sit and meditate.

CONCEPT NO. 2. WHEN SPACE is the challenge, the industry aesthetic is a way to seek modern solutions with volume and shape. The first was to join the square meters available and take the fullest advantage of a hohum bathroom. Next, the shower and sink area were set off from each other with a chest-high wall screen covered with ceramic plates by Porcelanosa. This solution also made it possible to hide the toilet, as specifically requested by the owners. As for decoration. it was based on resolute rejection of a dominant color or attention grabbing piece. The seduction was up to the materials, but above all it came from paying painstaking care to detail. The only concessions to cutting-edge trends were the transparency of the sink and partition and the dominant black and white of the accessories and bath linens. Such are the elements that explain the metallic atmosphere that imbues this second modular bathroom solution, found in a modern apartment in a residential area along the Bilbao estuary in northern Spain.