Pink, blue, yellow… Coloured bathroom suites are pushing the all-white sets out of fashion
warehouse is to walk into a flushable rainbow. Grand porcelain towers of 50,000 toilets, basins and bathtubs are stacked in a Pantone-esque pattern of pinks, greens and blues. To be specific: Flamingo, Melba, Romany, Heather, Pampas, Silver Fox, Sorrento Blue and more, a hundred more, each shade insistently nostalgic in its own specific way.Deborah Sugg Ryan
, professor of design history at the University of Portsmouth, “the first thing they did was to rip out the white bathroom and replace it with an aspirational avocado green suite with matching rippled tiles.” A decade later, across Britain the opposite was happening. Ccolour was bleached from bathrooms again, avocado suites making way for minimal white sanctuaries. The popularity ofminimalism in of the 1990s led to spa-like bathrooms, their function as much a place of “wellness” as cleanliness.
Thirty-five years ago, as coloured bathrooms started to go out of fashion, Brokenbog bought up a load of factories’ lines that were being discontinued. “Stronger colours from the 60s and 70s,” says Sam Powell, who took over the family business from his dad, pointing up at the burgundy basins above our heads, “and paler ones from the 80s, lots of muted champagne tones – that was before colour disappeared completely in the 2000s.
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