Duravit Announces the Winners of Their 6th Designer Dream Bath Competition

Duravit USA has completed the sixth edition of its annual Designer Dream Bath Competition, selecting one winner and two honorable mentions for both the Built and Unbuilt categories. For the Built category, which honors a project completed featuring Duravit within the last five years, the winner is David Gonzalez-Blanco of Billy Blanco Designs (pictured), with honorable mentions given to firms White Arrow and Falken Reynolds. For the Unbuilt category, which tasks designers with re-imagining their own bathrooms featuring the latest Duravit product introductions, the winner is Frevent Design, with honorable mentions given to OAD Interiors and AD-WO.

• David Gonzalez-Blanco, of the South Florida based firm Billy Blanco Designs, used the Duravit Cape Cod collection as inspiration for his winning Built project. Designed by Philippe Starck, the Cape Cod collection perfectly accentuates the Ontario home's bayfront master suite. The picnic table-inspired vanities are complemented by the soft curves of the freestanding bathtub and round washbasins, and Gonzalez-Blanco further played into the project's setting with elegant aqua tile.
• The Unbuilt category invited designers to redesign their own bathroom featuring Duravit's new Brioso and XSquare collections. The winning project, by Frevent Design, exudes a luxe simplicity, with the organic shapes of Duravit ceramics juxtaposed by the crisp geometry and modern wood of the furnishings.