GROHE garners “red dot: Best of the Best” award
Coveted design award goes to innovative kitchen faucet Minta Touch
The 2014 edition of the “red dot award: product design 2014” once
again saw GROHE prove its prowess as a leading manufacturer of
design faucets and water fittings. Apart from picking up awards for
its Thermostat Grohtherm 2000, its GROHE
Rainshower® Flower Collection and its Eurodisc
Joy line of faucets, GROHE also won the "red
dot: Best of the Best" award for its Minta
Touch kitchen faucet. This marked the fifth time in seven
years that GROHE was able to secure what is arguably the design
community's most coveted accolade.
GROHE Minta Touch
Its elegant silhouette has already made this kitchen faucet a
design classic, which continues to win favour among discerning
consumers worldwide. Created in the GROHE Design Studio and now
incorporating the innovative EasyTouch technology, GROHE Minta
Touch is not only an eye-catcher but also scores big points in
terms of engineering. Specifically, Minta Touch is a hybrid faucet
offering two modes of operation. In addition to conventional lever
operation, the flow of water can be triggered by skin contact with
any part of the spout. This means whenever the fingers are dirty
from preparing food, a simply touch with the back of the hand or
the lower arm will start the flow of cool and cleansing water. By
developing this unique touch sensor technology, GROHE has
reinvented the kitchen faucet and repositioned it as a modern
product that is fit for the 21st century.
red dot: Best of the Best
Paul Flowers, Senior Vice President of Design at Grohe AG, said:
“When we set out to create GROHE Minta Touch, we started by
exploring the boundaries of modern technology in cooperation with
our colleagues in R&D. This is why we take pride not only in
the faucet’s technical and visual features but also in the
cooperative spirit, which made it possible in the first place.
Winning the “red dot: Best of the Best” is clearly the result of a
team effort and we appreciate this award as a very special
accolade. “
Minta Touch faced some tough competition in this year’s “red dot award: product design”. A panel of 40 judges scrutinised and tested a total of 4,815 entries submitted by 1,816 manufacturers, designers and architects from 53 countries.
The awards were presented at the red dot gala event held in the Aalto Theater in Essen, Germany, on July 7.
Minta Touch faced some tough competition in this year’s “red dot award: product design”. A panel of 40 judges scrutinised and tested a total of 4,815 entries submitted by 1,816 manufacturers, designers and architects from 53 countries.
The awards were presented at the red dot gala event held in the Aalto Theater in Essen, Germany, on July 7.