LAUFEN’s Colour Archaeology exhibition comes to Roca London Gallery
14-26 April 2025
Colour Archaeology is luxury bathroom manufacturer LAUFEN’s inaugural exhibition at sister brand Roca’s UK gallery space, running 14-26 April 2025.
The exhibition features a new ceramic colour palette, the outcome of an academic research project led by Roberto Sironi on behalf of LAUFEN. Drawing inspiration from over 10,000 artifacts housed in museums around the world, Sironi categorised these treasures into vibrant colour clusters that reflect their cultural origins. Working alongside the LAUFEN innovations team, he then crafted a refined palette of harmonious ceramic tones inspired by the classical artifacts.
Vitrines containing replicas of the key classical artifacts will be on display at Roca London Gallery, alongside the LAUFEN products to which the new colours have been applied, namely: THE NEW CLASSIC by Marcel Wanders; VAL by Konstantin Grcic; and SONAR by Patricia Urquiola.
All of the LAUFEN products that showcase the new colour palette have been produced at the company’s highly innovative production facility in Austria and fired in the world's first electric tunnel kiln, powered by renewable energy.
LAUFEN and Alape Brand Manager, Emma Mottram, says: “Colour Archaeology is part of our ongoing mission to evolve our product in collaboration with contemporary thinkers and makers who are really pushing the design boundaries. We wanted to offer interior designers an opportunity to incorporate historically rooted colours into today’s bathrooms, creating environments that are authentic, connected to cultural history, and truly timeless.”
Colour Archaeology was first unveiled during Milan Design Week 2024 and has toured to LAUFEN spaces worldwide including Vienna, Berlin and Prague. After the London exhibition, the pieces will travel to LAUFEN Space Miami.
Roca London Gallery manager, Josu Badiola, says: “With Colour Archaeology coming to our company space in London, we can finally celebrate the innovative approach to design and sustainability that characterises the whole Roca Group.”
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Listings information
Colour Archaeology is at Roca London Gallery 14-26 April 2025
Station Court, Townmead Rd, London SW6 2PY
Monday to Friday 09:00-17:30, Saturday 09:00-17:00
020 7610 9503
About Roca London Gallery
Roca Galleries are part of Roca’s international strategy to express the brand values of design, innovation, sustainability and wellbeing. They also convey a desire to maintain an ongoing dialogue with society and professionals who share an interest in shaping the future of bathroom spaces. The various Roca Galleries in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, São Paulo, Shanghai, Beijing and London are a vehicle for expressing this desire, while providing a meeting place and area for interior decorators, designers and architects worldwide. First opened in October 2011, the Roca London Gallery is the result of a cooperative effort with Zaha Hadid Architects. The Roca London Gallery is a functional and flexible area where the Roca and LAUFEN product showrooms share the space with exhibitions, presentations, professional meetings and events relating to design, architecture and sustainability.
LAUFEN
BATHROOMS FOR LIFE
Since 1892 the Swiss manufacturer LAUFEN enables bathroom experiences for body and soul. The company today offers holistic bathroom culture with a focus on sustainability, excellent design, innovation and technological leadership coming from a long tradition of high-quality craftsmanship. With its vision of the bathroom as a living environment, everything at LAUFEN, from the ceramic fixtures and faucets to the bathtubs, furniture, mirrors, accessories, and even the installation systems and hidden features, is innovative, heart-warming and radiates a unique aesthetic appeal.
LAUFEN has been part of the family-owned ROCA GROUP since 1999 and is represented worldwide in more than 170 countries. LAUFEN’s head office is in Laufen, a city very near Basel. The company owns six production sites in central Europe.
SUSTAINABILITY
LAUFEN's mission statement includes a comprehensive responsibility for economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development for all generations. To ensure that the good feeling of purity and security in the bathroom can be enjoyed without any worries, LAUFEN designs its products to be as climate-friendly, environmentally friendly and socially responsible as possible - from the selection of materials and production to delivery, use and recycling. The company is aware that this is a continuous process that needs to be permanently developed and readjusted.
In 2021, LAUFEN, as part of the Roca Group, joined the United Nations Global Compact, a worldwide pact between companies and the UN that aims to build stronger corporate practices for a more sustainable and inclusive future.
www.laufen.co.uk
Roberto Sironi (b. 1983) is an Italian designer, who lives and works in Milan. His design practice is defined by a research-based and process-oriented approach, where thinking and making converge in the making of artifacts that become narrative tools to trigger a dialogue with the user. Founded in 2015, Studio Roberto Sironi works across product and installation design, strategic research and design consultancy.