Occasionally, a bath is published that really captures the essence of the designer’s personal style and taste. The one pictured in this post has been created by Thomas O’Brien, a longtime collaborator of Waterworks, and his husband Dan Fink of Dan Fink Studio. I love this space as a complete bath experience; it is a thorough expression of the designers’ personal style and taste; it is warm, comfortable, formal in an informal way and completely charming.
An oversized niche with thick glass shelves across from the vanity looks like a magnified medicine cabinet. Beautiful detail, gleaming white tile and practical as well.
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In 1999, Waterworks participated in the Kips Bay show house with Thomas O’Brien, which coincided with the launch of the highly original and extremely beautiful Aero fittings. Looking through O’Brien’s new book, Aero: Beginning to Now, I am reminded of this earlier work and his influence in the design community.
A simple vanity with bracket feet is beautifully accessorized with personal objects neatly collected on a tray.
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Thomas O’Brien loves bathrooms. In each one of his baths there is a link between modern and traditional elements (traditional raised panel cabinetry and Aero fittings, for example). The spaces are comfortable and honest, highlight good structure and authentic details. He loves open shelves for the practicality of towel storage and the display of decorative objects as well as the appearance of open space. He is a great editor and taste maker.
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In his new book, AERO Beginning to Now, Thomas O’Brien featured two baths that have captured not only his brand of “warm modernism” but my sensibility as well. Today’s post is about a mammoth bath in a grand Beaux Arts building in New York infused with American, Radio-City like glamour. (The other was the well-documented 1999 Kips Bay Showhouse).
