Central Park West Widespread Sink Faucet by Robert A.M. Stern | 2020-2021

Designers: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, Daniel Lobitz, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Alexander P. Lamis, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, New York City, New York, USA
Manufacturer: KALLISTA, Kohler, Wisconsin, USA

KALLISTA and internationally renowned architecture and design firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects have unveiled a new bathroom collection, Central Park West, a chic brassware series that captures the legendary sophistication of early 20th century design. The versatile collection offers a complete bathroom solution designed to cater to both commercial hospitality and residential audiences.

“Central Park West expresses our firm's modern classical aesthetic, matching the highest-end of the market in look, feel, and quality, but makes it more accessible to a broader audience. We distilled details from historical precedents to establish a distinctive modern yet traditional character. We studied plumbing fixtures from the early 20th century and adapted them to give the Central Park West Collection some of its signature notes: the knurling, for example, on the handles, supports, and spouts; and of course the monogram-style lettering, perhaps the most explicitly retro part of our design.”

Central Park West is a comprehensive bathroom collection with multiple sink and bath faucets, a full range of showering components, and complementing accessories; and, designed specifically for Central Park West and a new category for KALLISTA, a shower door handle pull, towel bar, and handle escutcheon. The collection also combines beautifully with other KALLISTA designs to create a one-of-a-kind personal oasis or provide a full product portfolio for almost endless options when specifying largescale hospitality bathroom installations.

“The collection feels timeless and sophisticated; we aimed to give it broad appeal,” said Alexander P. Lamis, another Partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects who leads the firm's product design initiatives. “The fluted tooling adds sparkle to the detailing that feels very bespoke and luxurious; we gave a lot of thought to the way the hand would sense the texture. We like its taut economy of means and its scale; unlike some other fixtures that aspire to be traditional, our collection is not overwrought or clunky. From the perspective of the specifier, we think the price-point will make the Central Park West Collection an easy, go-to selection for a multitude of applications.”

Centerstage in the Central Park West collection are a series of faucets that resonate with the collection’s distinctive design details and the air of handcraft that seems to harken back to the elegance and glamour of an earlier era. Appropriately scaled with an understated fluidity of line, the sink faucets boast four design choices – a stylized, elongated U-shaped design with low- and tall-spout heights, a graceful gooseneck, and a sleek wall-mount style. The faucet nozzle is slightly oversized and decorated with a simple fluting. Gently rounded, partially fluted lever handles create an illusionary effect by appearing to pass through the supports, which are appointed with a fluted ring before carrying down to the stepped base. An engraved “H” and “C” centered on the front of each bonnet complete the artisan touches.