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The Technology of Water

Written by LIXIL | Mar 31, 2016

Updated: Jun 3, 2016

As design head at Grohe, Paul Flowers helped create some of the world's most beautiful kitchen and bathroom fixtures. Now, as Chief Design Officer of LIXIL's Water Technology Group, he reveals how the company is applying design, technology and social purpose to reimagine the most intimate spaces in our homes.

Paul Flowers is working his way through Grohe's gleaming showroom in New York City, pausing at displays of bathroom and kitchen fixtures that catch his discerning designer's eye. He admires a showerhead with a spray inspired by an Aboriginal twig massage, and one shaped like a lozenge that mimics the actual contours of the human body. He points out another that is angled in a way to significantly reduce its packaging and environmental impact.

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