Water always finds its own path.
It captivates us as it elegantly traces its own course. Flowing across the obstacles it encounters, it patiently carves the stone that cannot escape its relentless, noisy flow.
Waterfall’s geometries follow water as it flows over various levels, creating imaginary lake beds that bring to mind the burbling of many small waterfalls.
Here Pitsou Kedem had the audacity to reinterpret one of the most fascinating phenomena in nature, giving us the opportunity to delight in the wonder of the waterfall in our experience of a daily act.
“The Waterfall washbasin freezes a prolonged process in a motionless mass.
The idea was to capture, in the bathroom, a moment of that process that in nature has transformed stone for centuries, and to perpetuate the movement of water as it carves its way through the stone.
When designing a sink, the stone is cut to create its own geometry. We wanted to think differently, and to let the flow of water create its shapes.
The strength of the Waterfall washbasin comes from the tension and contrast that is created between the motionless mass of stone and the sound of flowing water.”
Pitsou Kedem
The washbasin is made from a single block of Arabescato marble.
The veining of the marble runs uninterruptedly through the entire block, continuing in the removable tray in which the characteristic grid of polygons has been carved; this is because it was made by cutting the slab in sequence from the block used for the rest of the sink.
The body of the washbasin has been hollowed out inside to reduce its weight, and the basin is CNC-shaped and then smoothed by hand, a painstaking job given the angularity of its shape.
Waterfall is certainly a piece that is atypical, but succeeds in best expressing the craftsmanship of Vaselli’s artisanal tradition, together with the desire to innovate and surprise through design.
