Antoniolupi Ofuro Bathtub

July 3, 2022

Antoniolupi has introduced the Ofuro bathtub. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use, the tub can be installed as a free-standing unit or semi-encased. 

A bathtub, in the Japanese ritual of Ofuro, is a large and welcoming basin, scented with hinoki wood, which gives the user purification, well-being and liberation from the accumulated stress of the day.  With the gesture of immersion in hot water – the Japanese say that the ideal temperature is around 43 degrees – the hectic time of ordinary work and social activities settles into a slower rhythm, measured by our breathing and heartbeat.

From this distant ritual, which is still repeated today, ryokans and public baths of the land of the Rising Sun, Antoniolupi draws, with Carlo Colombo, the project of the Ofuro bathtub, modulated around a large and generous geometry. An elegant form, a large sculpture, this bathtub seems to have been made from a single block, worked and cut by the skillful hand of man or eroded by the natural force of water. The coexistence of straight lines and sharp edges with soft shapes and curved surfaces values the composition allowing designers to consider corner placement of it. The lowered edge in the front invites you to enter, to immerse yourself completely both in the freestanding version and when it is recessed into the floor and takes on the image of a bucket of natural water.

Ofuro is made of Flumood and has a variable thickness edge, wider in some parts with the consequent possibility of supporting objects and body care products, thinner in others to lighten the imposing volume. The bathtub can be equipped with LED light integrated at the base resulting in a feeling of elegance, lightness and suspension.