The Bathroom

Hadi Teherani designs from personal perception and inspiration. This is also how the bathroom concept for the AXOR project DISTINCTIVE was born. When asked by the brand how he would define his very personal “bathroom with personality”, the architect answered with a design that reflects an individual idea of this space, derived from this self-image — in its daily use, its design and its furnishing. It is a space where I can retreat, throw off the stress, and come out reborn, Hadi Teherani explains. “I see the bathroom as a space where I can clean myself — in a metaphorical sense as well. Here is where I arm myself for the day. This space protects me, offers me security, but at the same time, it doesn’t restrict me but rather gives me a feeling of space and infinity.” And how can one single room fulfill these seemingly so contradictory and at the same time holistic demands? Also, here the solution lays for Hadi Teherani in the formulation of the question itself. “What do you need to feel safe and secure and at the same time free and liberated? Human beings have always built cocoons in which they feel protected and could find shelter — whether made of snow, earth, or stone. The primal form of housing if you like. Enveloping but not narrowing. And this is what I take up in my vision of a bathroom.”