Traditionally Lefroy Brooks has for many years been known as the worlds most famous manufacturer of classic bathroom brassware – taps (faucets), accessories and showers.
However, about 10 years ago something changed. I realised people do not choose baths (tubs) they choose bathrooms.
They require a complete co-ordinated bathroom with accessories, baths, tiles, lighting, chinaware, showers and taps.
A total look where colour finishes and styles match perfectly. Indeed a whole ethos is in harmony – a complete classic bathroom.
This was a tall order. It set me down a path of slowly piecing together all the very best elements of the classic bathroom worldwide from London and Edinburgh to New York, from Paris and Bordeaux to the Italian Lakes.
I was essentially interested in that splendid period of the Empire when huge liners ploughed their path around the world. The period from the turn of the century to 1914, when the Great War began in Europe. A time when the elaborate curves of the Victorian Era gave way to the more honest, direct lines of the Edwardian ‘Modern Classics’.sanctuary Wall mounted bidet
Lissa Doon This classically-inspired chinaware was originally commissioned in 1876 by John James Baldoyle the Fifth Earl of Inverlochie as part of his restoration of the legendary Scottish castle Lissa Doon. We have faithfully recreated the suite, and like the original, it is manufactured in Glasgow. |
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School House A range of chinaware based on a basin discovered in a Sixteenth Century timber & wattle school house in the village of Compton Lucy near Stratford Upon Avon. The basin is of the rolled edge style popular at the turn of the century, but notable for its unusual bowed front. |
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Edwardian Our Edwardian range of sanitary ware remains unchanged since its first introduction in 1923. This is not an 'authentic' copy - this is the original - still seen in many homes throughout the British Isles. |
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