Concrete has the ability to bring a versatile, warm appeal to design, and Kast Concrete's washbasins reflect the possibilities.

?Nothing else is quite like concrete,? says Kast Concrete?s founder and managing director Tim Bayes. The word?s been out about concrete?s versatility and modern warmth for some time, having recovered from the period when it was most closely identified with the severe austerity of Brutalist structures like Le Corbusier?s Cité Radieuse and London?s Barbican Centre & Estate. Even as 20th-century Brutalism has undergone its own appreciative reevaluation, concrete itself has taken on a new, more approachable cast, centering its organic qualities more than its fearsome strength ? qualities that Bayes well understands. ?Concrete starts out life as a liquid and combines the organic characteristics of natural stone with the ability to be cast into any shape and color. Its versatility enables us to engineer products that push the boundaries of design. Aside from all this versatility, we think concrete has a certain magic to it, too. It?s a stone that cures. It?s alive in some ways. No two pieces are ever the same. It also has a contemporary context that other stone materials don?t have.? Flor Double C4, Golden
Bayes first came to consider concrete?s material qualities growing up in Switzerland. ?I was inspired by the use of architectural concrete and the way it could be manipulated into unique shapes and forms,? he says. ?It was this experience...