5-and-a-bit disparate notes on an incidentally fixed term commitment

Something on sinks, basins, faucets and taps.

1.It isn’t an overly difficult one to extend or slightly alter, but finding an initial place for a water outlet is kind of a big commitment. Regardless, in nearly any renovation they move, even if only a couple hundred mm.

2.Jasper Morrison* pondered at the beauty of a U-bend anchoring itself into the floor below, he then learned it was a former industry standard, exposed, cupboard-less that is.

3.Leonard Koren said that designers often make bad bath-rooms, but I think some designers are pretty good with sinks, basins, faucets and taps. Maybe it is because their placement evades strict typological assignment. They can sit solo, or in pairs and seem to generate an infinite amount of functional-ish possibilities and positions for themselves. They belong in a corner as much as the centre of a wall, or even in the centre of a room…but never in a room on their own. To my knowledge, the placement of a sink or tap has never been enough to programmatically name a room on its own. After all it is only one of two things needed for a powder room, even though on regular occasion it may sit outside the room holding the toilet itself.