{"id":2263,"date":"2025-01-25T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:43:29","slug":"eight-bathrooms-resurrecting-pink-sinks-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/eight-bathrooms-resurrecting-pink-sinks-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight bathrooms resurrecting pink sinks for the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pink<\/div>\n

Blush-coloured basins<\/a>\u00a0are experiencing a resurgence in contemporary bathroom<\/a> interiors. This lookbook<\/a> compiles eight of our favourite examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

After white, pink<\/a> was the most popular colour for porcelain fixtures in mid-century interiors, with experts estimating<\/a> that up to one in four homes built in the US between 1946 and 1966 had a rose-tinted bathroom.<\/p>\n

Now, interior designers are reinterpreting the trend for the 21st century,\u00a0using traditional porcelain for a retro<\/a> feel or adapting modern materials like resin and concrete to create built-in sinks that seamlessly blend into their vanities.<\/p>\n

Read on for eight examples of how to go pink without being pastiche.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring architects’ self-designed studios<\/a>, all-white interiors<\/a> and bedrooms with exposed concrete surfaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Casa<\/a>
Photo by Sara Magni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casa di Fantasia, Italy, by David\/Nicolas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A rose-tinted porcelain bathtub and shower tray were among the only original details in Gio Ponti<\/a>‘s 1952 project Casa di Fantasia when David\/Nicolas<\/a> was tasked with revamping the Milanese apartment.<\/p>\n

To complement the existing fixtures the Lebanese design duo installed matching his and hers sinks, while floor tiles by ceramicist Fausto Melotti were instead repurposed as a backsplash.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa di Fantasia \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Pink<\/a>
Photo by Daniel Sch\u00e4fer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T7.2 dental clinic, Germany, by Batek Architekten<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Splashes of colour delineate different functional zones in this white-heavy Berlin dental clinic<\/a>, designed by local studio Batek Architekten<\/a> to evoke the atmosphere of an art gallery.<\/p>\n

The sanitary area where patients brush their teeth is distinguished by a paradoxically sugary, cotton-candy colour that suffuses everything from the walls and floors to the counter, complete with a built-in basin and toothbrush compartment.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the T7.2 dental clinic \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Oddsson<\/a>
Photo by Ari Magg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oddsson Ho(s)tel, Iceland, by D\u00f6\u00f0lur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Icelandic practice D\u00f6\u00f0lur converted two floors of the historic 1940s JL House on Reykjav\u00edk<\/a>‘s waterfront into a hostel<\/a>, filled with pieces by famous 20th-century designers including Alessandro Mendini, Gerrit Rietveld and Ettore Sottsass.<\/p>\n

In the shared bathrooms, a row of bubblegum-pink sinks jumps out from the hotel’s blue-led colour scheme, creating a retro feeling that hearkens back to the era when the house was originally built.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Oddsson Ho(s)tel \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Annabel's<\/a>
Photo courtesy of Martin Brudnizki Design Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Annabel’s, UK, by Martin Brudnizki<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Taps shaped like golden swans spew water into luminous pink-onyx washbasins in the powder room at Annabel’s \u2013 a private members’ club<\/a> occupying a Grade I-listed Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

“It’s really about fantasy,” designer Martin Brudnizki<\/a> told Dezeen. “This is a club, you don’t come here for reality, you come to be transported somewhere else.”<\/p>\n

Find out more about Annabel’s \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Univers<\/a>
Photo by F\u00e9lix Dol Maillot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Univers Uchronia, France, by Uchronia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Julien Sebban, founder of Dezeen Award-winning<\/a> interiors studio Uchronia<\/a>, designed his own apartment in Paris’s 18th arrondissement to be not just close to the studio’s office but also reflective of its distinctive visual language.<\/p>\n

The colour-drenched bathroom balances decadent materials and playful shapes, featuring oversized flower-shaped cushions and ornamental jellyfish alongside a revamped vintage vanity topped with a cloud-shaped hunk of pink marble.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Univers Uchronia \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"North<\/a>
Photo by Dave Watts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North London house, UK, by The Mint List<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pink concrete was used to form a counter with integrated sinks in the bathroom of this renovated Edwardian house in north London<\/a> by local studio The Mint List<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vanity’s ballet-slipper colour, paired with golden taps and pipes, helps provide a counterpoint to the mint-green tiles that enshroud the interior.<\/p>\n

Find out more about North London house \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Harbour<\/a>
Photo by Sean Fennessy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harbour Early Learning, Australia, by Danielle Brustman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Australian designer Danielle Brustman<\/a> installed a plethora of different coloured-graded sinks across the Harbour Early Learning facility in Sydney<\/a>‘s Vaucluse suburb in hopes of encouraging little ones to keep their sticky fingers clean.<\/p>\n

For maximum hand-washing incentive, this trough-style basin is set at children’s height and finished with curved tiles in a soft petal pink that joyously clashes with the yellow tapware.<\/p>\n

“I wanted the design to inspire delight and joy for the people occupying the spaces,” the designer told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Harbour Early Learning \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Breadway<\/a>
Photo by Mikhail Loskutov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Breadway, Ukraine, by Lera Brumina and Artem Trigubchak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Odesa<\/a> bakery Breadway features a cool-toned pink and blue palette, chosen by Ukrainian designers Lera Brumina and Artem Trigubchak to “emphasise the warm colour of bread”.<\/p>\n

In the bathrooms, coral-coloured sinks match the grouting that peeks out between the glossy orange tiles<\/a>, while cabinets and doorways are emphasised in contrasting cobalt.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Breadway \u203a<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring architects’ self-designed studios<\/a>, all-white interiors<\/a> and bedrooms with exposed concrete surfaces<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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