Simple, elegant, light: the Moon washbasin by Scarabeo

The pleasing contrast between the wideness of the basin and the lightness of the shape – mainly due to the thin edges, which measure just a few millimetres – is the distinguishing feature of the Moon collection, a family of washbasins designed by Massimiliano Braconi for the Italian company Scarabeo. With its elegant and essential design, the collection combines beauty and practicality. It adapts to every type of home and type of environment, thanks also to its dimensions that make the washbasin an object of maximum usability even in homes with only one bathroom. “I sought a simple, elegant, sinuous and shapeless object inspired by simple urban elements. I thought of an element adaptable to our frenetic consumerism but physically refined. A product with welcoming but generous shapes, in anticipation of a new human minimalism,” says Massimiliano Braconi.

Strictly Made in Italy, Moon is made of ceramic and comes in ten different configurations of washbasin complete with sanitary ware. The central piece of the collection is undoubtedly the freestanding volume, which is essential and dry in shape and material. An object as complex in its design as it is simple and primordial in its aesthetics, it is the result of a new way of conceiving and using the domestic space and in particular the bathroom, which is less and less a service environment and more and more a room dedicated to well-being and privacy. Like all Scarabeo's ceramic collections, Moon is available in nine different colours in addition to the classic white (Pearl, Slate, Lava, Night, Sand, Tobacco, Antique Pink, Musk and Ocean) and in the new Decorart finishes with black marble effect, white and travertine, which with their classic and refined nuances transform ceramic into a material with a high aesthetic value, visually difficult to distinguish from the original stone. This is thanks to the decal technique where the substrates applied to the ceramic and treated with chemical materials melt with a second firing at 800 to 1100 degrees, allowing the material to merge with the ceramic glaze and become an integral part of it.