Kitchens & bathrooms

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Kitchens & bathrooms

THE LATEST LAUNCHES, LOOKS AND IDEAS EXCITING US NOW

FEATURE ELLEN FINCH

PERFECTLY FORMED

If your bijou kitchen is due an upgrade, the Castel 60 electric cooker – the newest and smallest model from luxury kitchen appliance brand La Cornue – could be just what you need. Its petite frame offers the same top performance as the rest of the Château range, plus it’s the first offering to include a four-zone induction hob. Proof that good things come in small (albeit pricey) packages?

**Castel 60 cooker, from £17,500, La Cornue**

NEW WAVE

We’re really enjoying scalloped edges in the bathroom – it’s a playful yet organic touch that works against the often more conventional shapes and finishes of other fixtures and fittings.

Kast’s new Wave collection introduces the look to the basin with three concrete designs in brilliantly intense colours: think earthy terracotta, deep burgundy and bright yellow for starters.

**Tilde basin in Brick, from £1,750, Wave collection at Kast**

SURFACE STYLE

Bert & May’s new Marbled tiles have such a beautiful painterly quality to them that they’ve made their way to the top of our kitchen and bathroom wish lists – we can visualise them on a kitchen floor with a contrasting border or behind abathroom basin as a pretty splashback.

TURN ON THE CHARM

We never thought we’d be quite so charmed by a kitchen utensil, but the Colino – a basket-like colander made with woven palm leaf fibres from Spanish brand Let’s Pause –might be the first to do it. It’s as much a rustic accessory as it is a functional piece.

SCREEN TIME

We’re long-time fans of Matki for its neat and stylish bathroom solutions, and the new EauZone wall-hinged bath screen is the smart-looking upgrade our space needed. Featuring 10mm-thick safety glass and solid brass hinges, it’