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Objects Of Design #165: Roberts Revival Radio

A more traditional way of listening to music in the bathroom You, of course, may wish to have wireless surround sound in your bathrooms. I, on the other hand, am strictly Radio 4 when it comes to my ablutions and for that you need one of these. It just doesn't sound the same otherwise. It
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Objects Of Design #164: Urban London Basin

Perfect for the urban bathroom I really really wanted this basin in our downstairs loo (which is painted entirely in blackboard paint) as it would have gone so well. Unfortunately for me (and perhaps fortunately for the budget) the London version didn't exist when we were doing that room. The set also include Barcelona (Roca
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Objects Of Design #163: Izola Apothecary Shower Curtain

Stylishly monochrome shower curtain Shower curtains need to be a bit heavier or they just end up wrapping themselves around you and threatening to fall down completely. This is made from cotton canvas and you can buy a liner to go inside it so this will become a rather lovely decorative item as well as
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Objects Of Design #162: Frajen Bath Towels

Image from lasso.com.au So on one of those regular trips to Ikea recently, you know the ones: "oh we need all sort of things that only Ikea sells but while we there we're actually going to completely forget what we went for and buy another 100 tea lights and eat too many meatballs and chips".
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Objects Of Design #161: Kubu Laundry Basket

Laundry baskets need lids Back to the laundry and this one is not only significantly cheaper than the one from the other day, but it still, crucially has a lid. It is also lined in cotton for anyone who was looking at that and wincing that their tights would ladder every time they used it.
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Objects Of Design #160: Sound More To See Audio Mirror

Integrate the sound into the mirror For all you techheads out there. Or just for those who like to have music in the bathroom but don't know what to do about all the wires that would entail. And, hell, who can afford to run that stuff on batteries which only last about a week. So,
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Objects Of Design #159: Alessi Birillo Bin

Bathrooms need bins Sometimes we just have to be purely practical and the fact of the matter is that if you have a bathroom, it will need a bin. But there's no reason why it can't be an attractive and well-designed object. That is, after all the point of this series. So, here is the
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Objects Of Design #158: Normann CopenhagenTrolley

Perfect bathroom storage Trolleys are perfect in bathrooms as you can just move them about to where you want them to be. Admittedly, you may not need to do this very often, but if you are taking the time to have one of those all too rare baths, then you can load this up with
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Objects Of Design #157: Magnifying Mirror

Be brave it's very magnifying There is truth in the saying that you get what you pay for. I bought a much cheaper version of one of these and by the time No 2 Son had finished flipping it round from side to side and extending and whatever the opposite of extending it is, it
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Objects Of Design #156: Chrome Bath Rack

Lie back and relax Now you're talking. How many of us make time for a bath when it's so much quicker to jump in the shower? Just looking at this image makes you feel more relaxed although two glasses of wine and the book isn't quite right. One glass and the book surely? Anyway, light
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Objects Of Design #155: Clasp Leather Laundry Bag

Luxury for your laundry Yes I know, some of you are probably thinking that you don' t even have a leather handbag never mind a leather bag for your dirty smalls. But isn't it gorgeous? And, a small point but one I think is valid, it closes. So you can contain any, er, unwanted odours.
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Objects Of Design #154: The Chemist’s Jar

Decoration for your bathroom It seems hard to imagine now but it wasn't all that long ago that if you wanted olive oil you had to buy it from the chemist as it wasn't regarded as a cooking ingredient. It was sold in tiny bottles and, as far as I can establish, was thought to
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