Sottini Bathroom Sculpture

The desire to mould clay goes back to the beginning of civilisation. The Ancient Greeks are famous for their great decorated amphorae with scenes of love and war. But it was the Chinese who were the first to glaze pottery and to invent porcelain.

For baths the Ancient Romans used marble, mosaic and stone. (Bowls were made of gold and other decorative metals). Baths were in general use, not only for public bathing, but also in private villas. Highly sophisticated methods were developed for piping heated water into different rooms, including steam rooms. Roman emperors from Nero onwards, erected baths which would outshine those built by their predecessors. As the Roman empire dwindled so did the culture of cleanliness.

It wasn't until the Victorians, with their own obsession with cleanliness that bathing technology began to match that of the Romans. By 1911, in Britain, most of the population had access to mains water and bathrooms were in common use.

The Sottini brothers began making bathroom products 50 years ago applying their Italian expertise to bathrooms. Their emphasis on good design - a recurring and enduring Italian theme - as well as skilled craftsmanship, laid down the principles of Sottini: elegant form with efficient function.

Today, Sottini bathrooms have been designed by internationally recognised European designers such as Robin Levien of Queensberry Hunt Levien (London). Renzo Beltrami and Claudio Fait (Milan) and Wolfgang Muller-Deisig (Berlin). With these designer's work, your bathroom becomes a sculpture gallery.

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