David William Photography

Design by Tom Vriesman & Chip Kalleen. Built by WrightWorks. Photos by Christopher Wright

Architecture: Genesis Architecture. Material selections: Blue Hot Design. Photo: Peter Wells.

Recessed tub provides a spa-like setting.

Balfour Walker

The Lullaby Nano is Aquatica’s take on creating a small deep bathtub that is ideal for a small and space conscious designed bathroom, yet still modern. Smaller than the original and the Lullaby Mini, this Lullaby Nano is the smallest version in our Lullaby series at only 51” inches. This model is a chic but small soaking tub that still has an extra deep interior, ideal for a full-body soak, and its ergonomic design is made to provide ultimate comfort. The solid matte surface of the Lullaby’s AquateX™ material is warm and velvety to the touch. Furthermore, this solid surface bathtub boasts excellent heat retention and durability as well as a chrome-plated drain. If you’re short on space but still want a small deep tub, then this Lullaby Nano is the ideal fit.

The True Ofuro Mini came about as the direct result of your requests. It too is inspired by the ancient traditions of Japanese bathing that led to the development of our incredibly popular True Ofuro. It too draws on the best ergonomic principles to sculpt a bath with internal seating and built-in headrest, made available in a very compact footprint to fit into even the smallest bathrooms. In fact, Aquatica’s clever designers have managed to create this ‘small and tall’ tub, deep enough for full body soaking in a footprint of just 43”. Now we have made one more important innovation to the Ofuro Mini - the addition of a stunning graphite black option, using our award-winning and ground-breaking AquateX™ solid surface composite. Just think how that might look in your bathroom! It is taller and deeper and features a slightly elevated rim for improved neck and head support, as well as a convenient ergonomic built-in seat, allowing the body to comfortably emerge to maximum water capacity. The height of the True Ofuro Mini Japanese style soaking bathtub is substantially taller than the original True Ofuro bathtub, and therefore we recommend people who are shorter than 170cm also purchase our stylish teak wood step. Aquatica’s international industrial design team, used advanced CAD tools, modeling and repeated testing with real size prototype units so that we could reach the optimal balance between ergonomic comfort and visual appeal. Our AquateX™ material is the star in this Japanese soaking tub as it retains heat much longer and also has a silky and velvety surface. This bathtub is currently one of our most space conscious bathtubs at a size of 43" x 43" (1090x1090mm), making the freestanding and petite construction of this Japanese style bathtub easy to be installed in any sized bathroom.

This young couple spends part of the year in Japan and part of the year in the US. Their request was to fit a traditional Japanese bathroom into their tight space on a budget and create additional storage. The footprint remained the same on the vanity/toilet side of the room. In the place of the existing shower, we created a linen closet and in the place of the original built in tub we created a wet room with a shower area and a deep soaking tub.

Double sink gray bathroom with manor house porcelain tile floors. Manor house tile has the look of natural stone with the durability of porcelain.

photo by ozaki makoto

Designed by Jen Lewis

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