The choice of colour is one of the main tasks in the design process. Le Corbusier even went so far as to call it "as strong a tool as the layout and cut". A colour code is often defined for high-quality architectural projects, and is used as the ‘key’ for the entire project. Premium hotels in particular like to continue this colour code in the bathroom in order to closely link this room, which is so important in ensuring guest satisfaction, with the hotel's image.
"Individual colour requests for major projects are nothing new to Bette. Sometimes it has to be a specific colour in order to bring a particular emotion or dynamic into the bathroom, or to link it to the key colours of the project," explains Sven Rensinghoff, head of marketing at Bette.
For projects over a particular size, the company offers the option of creating an individual shade for its glazed titanium-steel baths, shower areas and washbasins. The colours are mixed in the colour laboratory before being permanently melted with the titanium steel in Bette's proven wet-in-wet enamelling process. Occasionally the company is also asked to match the colour of its own bathroom products as closely as possible to other bathroom products.
Whatever the colour, the user will be able to enjoy all the benefits that Bette’s durable ‘30 year warranty’ glazed titanium-steel has to offer, including elegance, strength, hygiene, easy-care, scratch and UV resistance.
Bette's offer means plenty of freedom in design and colour. For those cases that do not require an individual colour, the bathroom specialist's range includes an extensive range of colours, as well as 22 matt shades.
For further information on Bette see www.Bette.co.uk or call 0844 800 0547
About Bette
Bette specialises in glazed titanium-steel bathroom products: baths, shower areas, shower trays and washbasins. The German family-owned business was founded in Delbrück, Westphalia, Germany in 1952, and specialises exclusively in steel-shaping and enamelling processes. The Managing Director is Thilo C. Pahl. Today, 370 people are employed at the production and administrative centre in Delbrück. This German site is the company's exclusive manufacturing facility for more than 600 bath and washbasin designs in a wide range of different colours.
Bette's assembly processes combine high-tech industrial production techniques with hand craftsmanship: more than half its products are customised according to customer requirements. Bette uses natural raw materials – glass, water and steel – to produce high-quality products in a wide range of different shapes, sizes and colours. BetteGlaze then gives these products a durable steel/enamel finish. The entire Bette range is ISO 14025 certified, according to the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) relating to materials and products.