Showers of Luxury

Showers of Luxury

Over the past few years, elaborate multihead shower systems have become a fixture in custom home master baths. Manufacturers boast an enormous array of spray devices, sleek designs and beautiful finishes combined with technologically enhanced flow and temperature controls to create a bathing experience tailor-made for each individual.

Homeowners crave a natural experience of rain in their showers. The Rainshower from Grohe is available in a 16-in. diameter with 252 water nozzles arranged to provide full body coverage.

Personalized water temperature and pressure is available with the recently introduced ExactTemp 3/4-in. thermostatic valve from Moen (at left). It features a temperature memory that can stay in a set temperature position and quickly return to that preset number.

The ShowerArc from Pharo (at right), Hansgrohe’s international brand of luxury shower systems, can be mounted wall-to-wall in a shower cubicle or in a corner of a bath. It includes a Raindance AIR showerhead, six body sprays and the Raindance S100 AIR 3-Jet Handshower.

Kohler’s WaterTile ceiling panels (above) are nearly flush to the wall and can be installed on a wall, ceiling or at an intersection of a wall and ceiling. The direction of the sprays is adjustable to create a targeted water experience.

Jado collaborated with designer Jean Nouvel to create a shower system that is technologically advanced as well as aesthetic (at left). An integrated automatic diverter controls a hand held shower wand, popping up a spray head that retracts when no longer in use.