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Duravit was founded in 1817.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bicentennial fever<\/a> is gripping Duravit<\/a>, founded in 1817 as a ceramic tableware supplier by Georg Friedrich Horn, but now a global bath giant approaching half a billion dollars in annual sales. “What drives us is the search for perfection, in aesthetics as well as functionality,” chairman Frank Richter says.
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Sieger Design’s Giamo triggered a rage for collaboration in 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That pursuit accelerated in 1987 with Sieger Design<\/a>’s Giamo, the manufacturer’s first complete bath range, which triggered a rage for collaboration. Sieger’s Darling sink followed in 1994, the same year Interior Design<\/i> Hall of Fame member Philippe Starck<\/a>’s Starck 1 bathtub became an industry sensation. Studio KMJ<\/a>’s very rectangular Vero bowed in 2001. This year, Danish designer Cecilie Manz<\/a> joins the roster with the pared-down elegance of the Luv series, its no-nonsense tub seamlessly cast from a proprietary mineral composite. And just in time for the anniversary, Duravit’s U.S. subsidiary christened its new 120,000-square-foot Georgia headquarters last month.<\/p>\n

> See more from the March 2017 issue of Interior Design<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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The Darling sink debuted in 1994.
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The Starck 1 bathtub became an industry sensation that same year.
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Studio KMJ’s rectangular Vero debuted in 2001.
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This year, Cecilie Manz contributed a tub to the Luv series.
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Giamo was Duravit’s first complete bath range.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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