Add some personality to your sink by ditching chrome and brass in favor of matte poured resin faucet handles. Known for effortlessly cool geometric bath and kitchen fittings, Australian design studio Wood Melbourne has teamed up with design editor Georgina McWhirter for a different spin. The circular and square faucet handles are typically made using concrete and reclaimed timber, but McWirter’s Chromablock collection is playful and full of color… and made of resin.
Both resin faucet shapes in the collection – the cylindrical Kahn and the cube Corbu – borrow their names from high design. Louis Kahn and his love of circular voids, and Le Corbusier’s nickname. Pair a matching set or juxtapose shape and color for bathroom basins, tubs, showers, or kitchen sinks. They can be paired with any of the brand’s faucets and backplates – in brass, concrete, Blackbutt wood, and Carrara marble – or mounted sans backplate, flush to a sink or wall.
Choose between 12 colors that feel slightly off due to their exploration between primary and secondary hues. Inspiration for the palette was found everywhere, from Le Corbusier’s Polychromie Architecturale keycards to Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor cinematography, as well as Frunge eyeshadow by Terry Barber, William Eggleston’s 1970s color photography, and the Memphis Group. Even interiors by Italian studios Dimorestudio and Marcante-Testa, and retro 1950s pastel bathroom tile. Whatever shape and color combination you choose, it’s impossible to go wrong.
To learn more about Chromablock faucet handles, visit woodmelbourne.com.
