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Shaping the Future of Faucets, One 3D Layer at a Time

Written by LIXIL | Mar 31, 2017

Updated: Jul 27, 2017

For a designer, there is nothing more exciting than being asked to remove all constraints, ignore all the conventions, and explore new frontiers offered by a cutting-edge manufacturing technique ― in this case: 3D printing.

To literally "design something you can't make." It's in these moments that the sparks of genius are often fanned into flames, and true innovation is born.

Such was the tantalizing challenge issued at LIXIL's North American luxury brand, DXV, as the group set out to revolutionize the very idea of faucets. They succeeded in doing something no one else had before them, creating the world's first commercially available 3D printing faucets.

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