A little bit of bling

Gold taps. Ten years ago this was a big no-no. Now? I think gold taps are the business. Here’s my evidence.

Exhibit 1: Architects Joe Morris and Mary Duggan’s home in Kings Grove. Left the hall, which also features a touch of gold in the Alvar Aalto Golden Bell light. Right, the kitchen with a gold Vola tap.

Duggan Morris house Kings Grove Peckham

Exhibit 2 (left): The Ace hotel in New York. Gold taps, gold shower, gold shower rail. Exhibit 3: A black bathroom found on Style-files.

The Ace Hotel New York bathroom

Exhibit 4: Isy tap by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez for Zucchetti, launched at Milan this year in gold (and white, black and red, but that’s another story).

Isy tap by Zucchetti in gold

Four examples in my book maketh a trend. Go forth and buy gold taps.

4 Responses to “A little bit of bling”

  1. JulieB
    October 19, 2010 at 10:55 am #

    Hmmm, so we did the wrong thing in replacing the ones in our bathroom? Bother. Mind you, there’s gold taps and then there’s gold taps…

  2. Anna
    October 22, 2010 at 6:15 pm #

    Yes you are quite right. I noticed this a couple of years ago in the apartment of a french hairdresser I saw in Maison Francais ( I think). He said chrome was too cold and industrial and had used bronzed or muted gold fittings. He was clearly ahead of the wave. Your examples look stylish and fresh to my eye. I’m fed up of the industrial luxe look.
    A

  3. SVCB
    April 16, 2014 at 11:52 am #

    Agree, but not enough low-end options about. Am desperate to have a Barber Wilsons bath filler but can’t bring myself to spend £1000+ on a tap. Might go for a nice brass garden tap at £9 from Screwfix …

    • myfriendshouse
      April 16, 2014 at 12:35 pm #

      Yes, this is quite an old post (hence me saying gold instead of brass) and it’s still the same isn’t it? Great idea about Screwfix!

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