Supernova is a fixture of high sculptural quality. With its many facets and polygonal surfaces is reminiscent of precision-worked crystal – and as such Supernova impresses its surroundings with ever new reflections of objects and colours.

“With Supernova, we are continuing the series of design innovations of the past two decades”, according to the CEO Andreas Dornbracht. “Supernova represents a cultivated, progressive, unique design.

The name of the fixture cites Supernova as the extremely bright flashing of a star during its explosion. With Supernova this flashing is shown by the way it plays with with light and refraction.”

In order to bring out the light reflections particularly well, Supernova is available in gleaming surfaces only. At the same time, these surfaces highlight the very destinct, geometric design vocabulary of the fixture.

With Champagne, Dornbracht is introducing an additional gleaming surface especially for Supernova: A light gold that eminently suits the renaissance currently being experienced in interior design and other lifestyle areas.

Champagne is a surface that is both glamorous and progressive, of which the top layer consists of 22 carat gold.

“With Supernova we made a conscious decision to add something new and perhaps polarising to the familiar Dornbracht design vocabulary – the cylinder, the rectangle”, explains Michael Sieger from Sieger Design who designed Supernova.

“The design is emphasised by the distinctive geometry of the discharge and the controls. A slight incline to the front generates dynamic.

The deciding factor is, however, the surface design. Its this which gives Supernova ist final appearance.”

In keeping with the sculptural character of the fixture, the architecture of the Supernova lead-bathroom is not a classical space. Instead it becomes lifestyle furniture, which can be freely placed in the room, without definition of space.

“With Supernova we have taken the sculptural quality of the fixture as a starting point for the lead-bathroom architecture.

The consequence is an island in the room which locates all functions and zones of the bathroom in the centre.

An architecture that also becomes a solitaire”, according to Mike Meiré, who is responsible for the lead-bathroom architecture and the Dornbracht’s brand director.

If you regard the exposed design more precisely, it is demonstrated that the gleaming surfaces and precise inclines of the fixtures repeatedly reflect the indiviiudal, lagoon-like water zones of the solitaire.

It seems that the fixture reflect the idea of the architecture in the same way as the architecture reflects the idea of the fixture.

Source: Dornbracht