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This movie by German art director Mike Meiré for bathroom and kitchen brand Dornbracht features one shower that makes you feel like you’re washing outdoors and another that you use lying down.

Created by Sieger Design for Dornbracht, Sensory Sky has a wide and flat shower head with separate sprinklers for head and body and a “rain curtain” that creates a solid wall of water, as seen in the movie by Cologne-based art director Mike Meiré. There’s also a nozzle that uses cold water to create a foggy mist.

Users can programme their own settings or choose from three options: one that projects coloured lights on the rain curtain, another that combines fog and cool water with the smell of herbs and berries, and a third designed to evoke a summer storm by combining cold and warm water with a tropical fragrance.

The movie also shows the Horizontal Shower, which sprays water in a curtain along the length of the user’s body while they lie on a heated plinth.

Sensory Sky is on show at the ISH trade fair in Frankfurt until 16 March and will be available from autumn 2013 in brushed stainless steel and platinum or high-gloss stainless steel and chrome.

We previously featured a square tap by Sieger Design for Dornbracht that produces a wide row of individual streams of water.

Other unusual showers we’ve published include an outdoor shower that connects to a hosepipe and a circular shower that rotates to become a bath.

We recently featured a bathroom collection that appears to have been unpacked from the crate-like wooden bath and a bathroom with orange details by Marc Newson for Caroma – see all bathrooms.

Mike Meiré curated an exhibition for Dornbracht in Cologne a few years ago featuring street food stalls from around the world, as he explained in a movie filmed by Dezeen.

Here’s more information from Dornbracht:

The innovation: Sensory Sky
The vision: The feeling of showering in the open air
The special feature: Complex scenarios of rain, fog, light and fragrance
Design and concept: Sieger Design

Available for delivery: Autumn 2013
Dornbracht premiere: Sensory Sky – a feeling of showering in the open air

With Sensory Sky, Dornbracht makes showering a unique experience that stimulates all the senses. Different types of rain, fog, light and fragrance complement one another to create complex choreographies, inspired by weather phenomena and the moods of nature.

Throughout product development, the focus has been on keeping technology in the background. Sensory Sky combines technological complexity with minimalist design. The wide and flat rain panel has separate shower fields for head sprinkler, body sprinkler and rain curtain, a cold-water fog nozzle and light and fragrance functions.

Controls are easy and convenient to use thanks to the new digital Smart Tools that Dornbracht has developed on the basis of Smart Water technology. Smart Water stands for the vision of enlisting the numerous possibilities for digitisation in the bathroom (and kitchen), and making individualised applications convenient and easier to use.

A gentle press of the controls and the desired scenario begins:

Readjust is a choreography that invigorates the user and sharpens the senses. Temperature controlled fog (36-39°C) and light rain (28°C) reduce the daily flood of stimuli to a soothing minimum – until the gentle light of dawn begins, the sky gradually clears and perception becomes more alert, more intense once again. The composition of fresh woody meadow herbs and sweet hints of berries is reminiscent of the soft, pleasant fragrance of a dry forest floor and reinforces feelings of liveliness after showering.

Release is derived from the natural phenomenon of heavy summer rain that cleanses and liberates at the same time. Pent-up energies are unlocked in an expressive choreography of different kinds of rain, and invigorating changes in temperature and light. The choreography is accompanied by a refreshing, tropical fragrance with hints of citrus fruit and an earthy base. The change from cold (18°C) and warm (35°C) water in the rain curtain, together with the fascinating interplay of summer shower and sheet lightning, promote a feeling of liberation – a fresh beginning for body, mind and soul.

Rejoice protects, envelops and stabilises. The outer, warm rain curtain (35-38°C) becomes a projection screen for the light effects as water droplets glisten in the colours of the rainbow. A poetic fragrance composition combines fresh, clear notes with a sweet-spicy and woody finish. A multi-faceted and harmonious play with colours, fragrances and rain types that gradually transfers over the entire body and harmonises all of the senses.

A special feature of Sensory Sky is the fragrances synchronised to each choreography and inspired by the various weather phenomena and moods of nature. These fragrances are produced using high-quality natural essential oils and balms in co-operation with Kemitron, a specialist for spa and wellness fragrances. All fragrance compositions have also been tested by the International Fragrance Association IFRA, ensuring that they are of high quality and safe to enjoy.

Alongside the three scenarios, spray heads, nozzles, light and fragrances can also be separately set, independently of one another, for an individual shower experience. Whether the choreography is programmed or personal, Sensory Sky creates a uniquely sensual feeling, like showering in the open air.

Sensory Sky will be introduced at ISH 2013 and from autumn 2013 will be available in two different finishes: brushed stainless steel (in combination with matt platinum) and high-gloss stainless steel (in combination with chrome).

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German studio Sieger Design present this flat, square tap for design brand Dornbracht at ISH 2011 in Frankfurt, which opens tomorrow.

Called Deque, the tap is designed to produce a wide horizontal row of individual streams of water.

The design comes in chrome and matte black.

German designer Mike Meiré created a sculpture to display the Deque range.

here are some more details from Dornbracht:

Dornbracht presents DEQUE

At the ISH trade fair in Frankfurt (15 – 19 March 2011), Dornbracht is presenting DEQUE, a new fitting for the bathroom. DEQUE ‘s visual language is characterised by the strong pared down aesthetic of its flat wide projection. The low and basin-hugging fitting draws one’s eyes to what is most important, the way that water is delivered.

“DEQUE represents the progression of the Dornbracht brand in avant-garde design,” says Managing Director Andreas Dornbracht. “The special feature we have developed for this fitting are the individual streams of water that are dispersed that provide a gentle and elegant experience while washing the hands.”

DEQUE ‘s contrasts stand out, the juxtaposition of the gentle flow of water with the severity of the fitting’s form and the contrast of the planar projection and the cylindrical control elements – a form that is particularly evident in the single-lever mixer.

“The natural cascade of water sets a deliberate contrast to the formal severity and perfection of the fitting,” says Michael Sieger.

With its planar form, DEQUE draws the eye to the fitting and the water it delivers, a perspective that evokes associations with the landscape architecture of Italian architect Carlos Scarpa (1906-1978). In combination with the two types of streams (the cascade of water and the gentle individual streams), this association marks the basis for designing DEQUE ‘s surroundings.

“The architecture unites the tremendous precision and geometry of the fitting with landscape architecture. The result is a sculpture comprising the fitting as a water-shaping source and the architecture as a water-structuring form,” explains Mike Meiré, who is responsible for the architecture of the DEQUE sculpture.

To follow the natural flow of water through this sculpture is to embark on a journey through the different applications of the series. Precise geometric forms depict a monolithic landscape of chrome and matte black. From washbasin to bath tub, from shower to deck-mounted, the different sources of water supply a flow that ties the different delivery forms of water together architecturally. It is not the architecture that unites the different water sources with one another, but rather the water itself that acts as the element uniting the architecture.

In addition to the DEQUE sculpture, four individual applications were designed for DEQUE. They each show a combination of outlets and a landscape element. The applications vary in size, yet exhibit a consistent architectural signature and material aesthetic.

DEQUE comes in the finishes chrome and matte black and will be available for delivery in September 2011. The design is by Sieger Design, the DEQUE bath architecture is by Mike Meiré.

New product: DEQUE
Design: Sieger Design
Available for delivery: Autumn 2011
First presentation: ISH 2011, Frankfurt

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