Hawa offers elegant solutions
01 September 2010
SWISS firm Hawa says that its state-of-the-art sliding solutions for the bathroom provide the keys to both discretion and openness.
“The modern bathroom as a space dedicated to well-being and sensuous experience is at the height of fashion,” explains a Hawa spokesman. “From private homes to hotels, its functionality, airiness and comfort are captivating features. Stark, bare wet-rooms, on the other hand, are a thing of the past.”
He continues: “Against this background, the bathroom door takes on a new significance as the interface between private sphere and openness. As a sliding door it unites all the aspects that characterise modern bathroom design. It is space-saving, functional and efficient, but also stylishly light and, if so desired, even transparent – a design object for unusual room solutions, easy to handle and convenient. That is why sliding bathroom doors are in demand like never before.”
Sliding doors make astounding changes to our environment, he says. “ They enable customised room partitions and inspire creative concepts in architects, designers and planners. Sliding hardware systems create a competitive advantage. They can do so much more than simply open and close doors. Sliding, pivoting and sliding in, stacking, folding, whether room-high or gliding in front of the wall or cabinet, they enable customised solutions for every taste even in the smallest of spaces. These solutions offer planners significant potential to score extra points. After all, saving space in construction also means saving money, for instance in hotel bathrooms, but not at the expense of quality and design – in fact, quite the contrary.”
However, sliding doors can only glide reliably, silently and easily if the sliding hardware technology is of the right quality says Hawa, adding that it is the combination of technology and design that make sliding an experience.
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Hawa-Junior hardware systems are perennial favourites as proven solutins for sliding doors made of wood, glass and aluminium. |
“The owners and designers of the grand luxury hotels in the Gulf have obviously held the same opinion for quite some time,” says the spokesman. “Thousands of sliding doors and partition walls open and close luxurious bathrooms and conference rooms in the apartments of the world’s tallest residential and commercial building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.”
“Nothing but glass” was the maxim behind the new 499 bedroom luxury Yas Hotel recently constructed above the new Formula One circuit in Abu Dhabi. “The architects chose glass as the material for the heavy sliding doors to the bathrooms as the focus was on achieving the greatest possible transparency and airiness. “Nothing but glass” is all the eye can see as the sliding hardware is invisibly concealed in the ceiling,” he explains.
Sliding doors move partition walls and doors at airports, railway stations and in commercial buildings; they are found in residential complexes and private homes, in casinos, shopping malls, restaurants and banks – all over the world. Many of them share a common feature: their hardware technology, says the spokesman.
“The key to convenience and functionality originates from Hawa in Switzerland, a company that has passionately developed, manufactured and distributed hardware systems for sliding doors for more than 40 years.”
Hawa has become an internationally acknowledged specialist for high-quality sliding hardware systems for construction, façades and furniture, he says adding that 75 national and regional patents are proof enough.
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A sliding wood door system in Hotel Monarch in Dubai, UAE. |
“Swiss-made workmanship and the proverbial Swiss reliability are guarantors of high quality,” he adds.
The Swiss company always has the right sliding solution at hand for every weight category, every material and therefore every conceivable application.
The contact partners at Hawa’s subsidiaries Hawa Middle East, Dubai and Hawa, Qatar are ready to help with comprehensive advice and uncomplicated communication, the spokesman adds.
