Luxury bathroom marries tech and nature for HK$2.9 million

The most neglected room in the home is the bathroom, as it is the room in which we spend the least amount of our time. But to Libero Rutilo and Ekaterina Shchetina, “the bathroom is an important part of any house”.

Today, technology is integral to the design of any home. But the bathroom is a sensitive zone for many of us, and the use of technology within its four walls may create an effect that is, perhaps, a little too impersonal.

When thinking through DesignLibero’s bathroom design, Rutilo explains, “we didn’t want to create a space which would be ultra-technologic but cold and aseptic”; rather, they wanted to come up with something that would be “a pleasing place that provides smart and warm technology with which it would be possible to interact intuitively”.

“The idea that came to us is a space that would merge nature and technology… where a person would really like to spend time,” Rutilo says.

DesignLibero applied its expertise to designing such a bathroom – one in which nature and intelligent convenience are merged – for STYLE;and what it came up with is perfect for any metropolitan home.

Its natural elements – such as real plants, moss, fog, wood and marble – add a sense of vitality to the hi-tech environment, elevating it to a warm, living space.

“The space that we designed allows an escape from a chaotic and stressful life, and brings a person back to his origins … by stimulating all five senses and soothing them,” Rutilo explains.

The design is a retreat with a green wall, a living moss carpet that creates the sensation of walking bare foot in a forest, a tropical shower surrounded by plants, evoking the feeling of being under a waterfall, and a tea bar for providing a tasty purifying infusion after a spa.