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Console sinks are in keeping with the hottest trend today: lavatories that look like furniture. Watercolors offers wonderfully avante-garde European imports that, as owner Joyce Blum puts it, "are more like furniture than a sink."
She adds, "We try to do things that nobody else does." Among both quirky and striking offerings, they have intricately curved wrought iron frames, finished in a variety of tones. These support china--or even terra cotta--surfaces and bowls that have been given beautifully-glazed finishes. How pricey? According to Blum, "We are upper middle to high end, about $1200 and up." Eljer Plumbingware's new Mardi Gras lavatory, which brings the flavor of New Orleans' historic metal and wrought-iron detailing into the bathroom, is a console that features an intricate scroll design on its metal base and a generous vitreous china basin. Barclay Products Limited's Versailles is an elegant, French-style wall-mount sink with two front corner legs.
Hastings Tile & Il Bagno Collection offers a variety of artistic console and pedestal sinks that utilize chrome, glass, polished copper and more. "Most people would consider our products to be contemporary," says Marketing Manager Mike Homola, "but it's really more of an eclectic kind of look. People are inter-mixing a variety of different mediums with these interesting pieces." At the upper end of the market, these pieces run from $1000 up to $6000.
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