| If you think about it, it's a fascinating contradiction of sorts. Bathroom fittings. On the one hand, their raison d'etre is to deliver something insubstantial and ephemeral – water – and on the other, their materiality is one defined by heaviness, hardness and permanence.
German manufacturer GROHE has long understood how to take the faucet as an object type and make it sing by turning that heaviness into formal poetry. Its Atrio collection is just the latest body of products to combine considered, almost sculptural, shaping with high-performing material toughness. That's the hard truth. | 
