Tarek Hegazy
Principal & Creative Director, Living Design Sweden
How will you use these extended options?
Which comes first, faucet or ceramic?
Mixing colours and finishes in sanitary ware has never
Faucets are the “crown jewels”. For the designer, they
been attempted on a commercial scale before. But
are the “crème de la crème” of any bathroom or
that’s exactly what GROHE has done with the Essence
kitchen design. With a careful selection, the whole
range, and it will enable me to bring new individuality,
bathroom or kitchen comes alive with distinction.
emotion and fashion to the bathroom. Now I can pursue
meaningful personalisation. And all whilst using the
same fundamental design – I have the best of both
worlds - consistency and familiarity mixed with variation
and surprise. A paradoxical combination that is perfect
for the hospitality environment.
How important is this choice?
It is important to have customisation and distinction,
while remaining united around a core value – that’s
basically the real value that GROHE is providing. The
new options give us the wings to fly, in other words,
they give us the chance to create visual distinction
without sacrificing the core value of the Essence
quality and functionality.
I believe that the Essence range will change the way
we dress the bathroom and kitchen. It will change the
way we interact with those spaces and the delight
we have with water. That’s because Essence not only
brings emotion to those spaces, it also appeals to the
individuality of the designers.
Tarek Hegazy
With over 26 years of experience and
numerous prestigious projects in his portfolio,
and more than 200 projects to his credit, the
majority being five star hotels, Tarek Hegazy,
is Principal and Creative Director of his
company, Living Design, a Swedish-based
International Interior Design firm established
in 1984. The firm is considered by its peers
to be one of the leading interior design
firms in Europe and has earned more than
120 awards.
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