DIS: The Island (KEN)

DIS approaches Dornbracht Horizontal Shower and a kitchen into a hybrid product that unites kitchen and bathroom raising new questions about learned patterns of logic and application.

DIS in collaborazione con Dornbracht e Mike Meiré, The Island (KEN)

Presented first at the New Museum in New York and then at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, The Island (KEN) is an installation by DIS, created in collaboration by Dornbracht and co-designed with Mike Meiré, is a hybrid product that unites kitchen and bathroom raising new questions regarding learned patterns of logic and application.

The precision and high-end finishing of the work provides the new “product” with a seriousness that inevitably results in a confusion of the observers’ customary viewing habits.

As a central piece, The Island (KEN) features Dornbracht Horizontal Shower with an integrated drinking station. Horizontal Shower is an innovative application that for the first time provides a reclining shower experience. It combines six water bars set above a reclining space. A control element allows the user to select one of the three water choreographies – balancing, energizing or de-stressing. The complementary part of the installation consists of a kitchen unit including a sink, an induction field and the Dornbracht fitting Lot with a digital Smart Water control element and a foot sensor. Sculptural in its appearance, with an ultraflat one-piece spout, Lot is a highly architectonic fitting that perfectly complements the installation’s minimalistic ambience.

The Island (KEN) embodies a perfect symbiosis of design and art. Merging both disciplines reveals the aesthetic and atmospheric power of Dornbracht products, placing them in an entirely different setting. The result is a space that bursts the boundaries of conventional functional rooms and allows the viewer to see the world in a new way.