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As our lives get ever-more stressful, the wellness trend in bathroom design is evolving to encompass increasingly luxurious products. CID takes a look at what’s on offer

One of the biggest developments in bathroom design over recent years is its transformation from a purely utilitarian space into a centre of wellness – a personal haven.

“We live in an increasingly stressful world with every moment of our days filled with activity,” explained Robert Pearce, managing director, Jacuzzi Middle East. “People feel the need for a quiet space where they can regroup and relax, away from the noise and haste of everyday life. The bathroom is frequently the only place where we can be completely alone and quiet.”

As daily life becomes ever-more fraught, bathroom designers are responding with increasingly luxurious, high-end products. “We believe that wellness is a trend that will become increasingly more important to people as they re-evaluate their lives and priorities. People are focusing more on their personal lives and family wellbeing and less on long working hours and stress-filled days,” said Pearce.

Alessandro Pagliarani, export area manager for Teuco, agreed. “The importance of ‘wellness moments’ is increasing, and will continue to increase. We all live very busy and stressful lives, so we need time to dedicate to ourselves, in an intimate context.

“The bathroom is the ideal room to relax in and to take care of our body and our mind. It’s up to bathroom companies to carry on giving wellness new aesthetic meanings and suggestions, and creating emotionally involving wellness areas,” he continued.

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Technological advances in bathroom design mean that those ‘wellness moments’ can now be experienced at the touch of a button.

As the original innovator of hydrotherapy for the home, the Jacuzzi brand continues to be at the forefront of ‘wellness’ product design, offering everything from whirlpool baths, cascade and rain showers to steam showers and body jets.

These products do not just feel like heaven to lie in, they are good for your body too – hydromassage can alleviate the muscle tightness produced by stress and anxiety, relieve muscle soreness by facilitating the removal of lactic acid, open the blood vessels to improve circulation, help the muscles around arthritic joints relax, and promote the flow of endorphins. “A technically correct hydromassage is very different from simply blowing bubbles into water,” Pearce explained. “Jacuzzi-designed and -patented jets create a 50/50 mix of air and water that is powerful yet comfortable, to relieve aching muscles and release tension.”

The company’s latest innovation, the Aquasystem, has four customised forms of water massage: silent, breath, renew and dream, which have been designed to make minimal noise so as not to disturb the senses.

As well as hydrotherapy, numerous other features have been added on to a simple bath tub to make the bathing experience the ultimate indulgence. Skyline from Jacuzzi, for example, is the first line of home spas in the world with a constant-level water, thanks to its automatic compensation system. The pool allows the opportunity to enjoy the luxury of sinking into a spa with the water at overflow level.

The spa has numerous other technical features, including an ‘insound’ audio system. With speakers hidden under the spa’s grate, the audio system is managed from an LCD control panel.

Users can select the music of their choice, decide on which of the five jets they feel like using and set them at their chosen intensity and position. On top of that, there are 14 aromatherapy blowers, which give an ‘air aroma’ of favourite perfumed essences.