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Design You Turn On. And Vice Versa: JL Baril's Water Faucets





Founded in 1986,
JL Baril has gained worldwide renown as a company that specializes in high-end quality faucets. In 2003, JL Baril joined forces with Lichen, a full-service communications firm that has a serious penchant for product design, creation and innovation. Always on the lookout for technical advances and creative developments around the world, JL Baril and Lichen consistently offer solutions and products which combine cutting-edge technology and ground-breaking design.

Below are some of their most unsual faucets for kitchen and/or bathrooms.

GRAZIE is a single-hole, single-lever bathroom faucet, that allows you to regulate water temperature and flow with one hand. Available with several choices of levers as shown below, as well as the one at the beginning of this post:




Grazie was created by designer Alessandro Mendini

FORM:


Geometrically inspired, its long, slender and curved spout melds perfectly to its squared base and its linear, rectangular handles. Look, admire, and let yourself get swept away by its form. Shown above is a kitchen faucet, bath faucet and tub faucet, all in the FORM collection.


Personalize Form and change its look, by choosing one of four available handles; Bleached Maple, Cherry wood, Wengé or Chrome.


M




JL Baril is proud to introduce its first colored faucet. M is its name. M is offered in chrome, red and orange; M orange, a psychedelic look for those nostalgic for the 70’s, and M red, for an intense 80’s look:


And now, it's available to customize in any one of Benjamin Moore's available paint colors!!


Made of solid brass and equipped with a ceramic cartridge, M is turned on with one hand to regulate water temperature and flow. M offers a complete bathroom collection with a 4-piece roman tub faucet, shown below:


Go here to a site dedicated to the M faucet.

FUR:


It may be politically incorrect, but it sure is pretty. FUR is the very first faucet adorned with real fur. The generally sober aspect of this faucet is elevated by two strips of fur.


Fur is a single-hole, single-lever faucet that allows you to regulate your water temperature and flow with one hand. Fur is finished in chrome and is adorned with real strips of fur that are changeable if you wish to modify its general appearance. Fur proposes a variety of insertions; Brown leather, Chrome and Wengé essence wood.

TOUCH ME:


Touch it lightly and water will flow for 12 seconds. Touch it again within the 12 seconds to shut water off. Touch Me is the first faucet that is activated without the use of a handle. Simply touch the stainless steel body to prompt into action.

Touch Me answers all solicitations with a flash of purple light. Touch Me is a single-hole faucet made of brushed steel. The water temperature is regulated by the mixer located at the base of the faucet. Touch Me is attached to an electric outlet via a secure 12 volts adaptor. No, you won't get electrocuted.


FLUO:

Fluo is a faucet that is not only seen during the day, since all faucets are not simply chromed.

Fluo brightens up your bathroom once the lights are turned off. It’s shiny character is due to its two phosphorescent rings. Single-lever faucet that allows you to regulate your water temperature and flow with one hand. Fluo is delivered with 6 fluorescent colored rings, one of which is phosphorescent, so your flow can glow!



VELA

Vela allows you to redefine your conception of faucets. Vela is a triangle that is sundered when in use. The original look is what makes Vela so popular.

Vela is a chrome-finished, single-hole, single-lever faucet that allows you to regulate water temperature and flow with one hand.

Their design-object faucets are made-to-order according to your specifications. All faucets will be shipped approximatively 4 weeks after the order is placed.



To place your order with a JL Baril representative, please call 1-800-463-3871
(toll-free) Payment can be made by Paypal, credit card, cheque (products shipped upon receipt) or C.O.D. When ordering via email on the Faucet-Maker site, please fill-out the eform, and a JL Baril representative will contact you at your convenience to verify your order and approve the method of payment. For security reasons, and to ensure accuracy, you must speak and confirm your order directly with one of JL Baril's customer service representatives (unless your order is purchased directly through PayPal).

Shipping: Ground shipping to US & CAN is included + taxes (where applicable)

Exposif: Artist Designed Wallpapers & Wallscapes From Maxalot


Above: Detail from Kozydan's wallpaper for Maxalot

Exposif is a collection of wallpapers, developed by Maxalot in collaboration with leading names in graphic design, photography and illustration. Functioning both as art and decoration, Exposif celebrates the re-emerging importance of wallpaper as a way to customize space. Their designs vary greatly in style and color and are created by such artists as Kozydan, Mari Inukai, Edwin Ushiro, Timorous Beasties, Pixel Nouveau, We Work For Them, Chisato Shinya and tons more. All wallpapers and wallscapes are available for purchase in limited editions.

Below are a few examples of their various wallpapers/wallscapes shown as the art and then in application:

Birgit Amadori:


Edwin Ushiro:


IdealWord:


Kustaa Saksi:


MTAF (more Than A Friend):




Julie West:


Destroy Rockcity:



Eno Henze:


Chisato Shinya:




Inocuo Design:


Erotic Dragon:


Joshua Davis:


eboy:


Kozydan:



Timorous Beasties:


Peter Zuiderwijk:


Pixel Nouveau:


Ten & Don:


Details:

Andrea Offerman:


Marcos Chin:


Mari Inukai:


Pier Fichefeux:


WWFT (We Work For Them):



Exposif wallpapers are printed on Adhesive Synthetic Paper which is thin, light and flexible with a durable, wet-strength base. It delivers accurate colors and vivid results on its high-quality matte surface. Application is easy: the wallpaper comes in panels measuring 100cm (40 inches) in width, and as long as the client requires. Due the extreme thinness of the paper, there are no visible overlaps, and the final result is a perfectly seamless wallscape.

Prices are calculated at a flat rate of €325.00 ($415.00) plus €29.00 per sqare meter ($3.50 per square foot).

About Maxalot:

Maxalot crosses digital arts with emerging pop surrealism, aiming to reach broad audiences with individuals and studios who break boundaries in art and design.

Since their debut in 2003, Maxalot has set course to become an influential force in the global graphic and design community and now incorporates an online boutique offering unique objets d'art, limited edition giclée prints and graphic wallscapes.

Formerly based in Barcelona, the Maxalots have returned to their motherland, Holland and now curate exhibitions in a series of unconventional venues throughout the city. Maxalot brings together graphic design, iconography, street art and all the hybrids in between to create exhibitions and creative projects related to the art of image-making.

Running things at Maxalot are Max Akkerman and Lotje Sodderland.

info@maxalot.com
+31(0)6-3434-6031

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