By Healthcare Facilities Today

RONKONKOMA, NY — Hastings Tile & Bath, the premier distributor and importer of luxury bath and tile products for the kitchen and bath industry, announced today that VOLA’s Round Series Showerhead, imported and distributed exclusively in North America through Hastings Tile & Bath, is the recipient of the prestigious GOOD DESIGN™ Award for Bath and Accessories in 2013. The GOOD DESIGN™ Award is presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This award is bestowed upon the world’s leading designers and acknowledges manufacturers for creativity, modernization, advancement and outstanding products that stretch the boundaries of average design.

“We are thrilled on VOLA’s behalf to know that they’ve received another prestigious GOOD DESIGN™ award, this time for their Round Series Showerhead,” said Bob Gifford, director of bath products for Hastings Tile & Bath. “VOLA’s designers continue to create stylish and innovative products and receiving this award confirms their reputation as leaders in the design and production of cutting-edge architectural products.”

VOLA Round Series Showerhead

The new Round Series Showerhead is a natural extension of the VOLA range of faucets and fixtures. It means a luxury bathroom can now be completely VOLA, combining chosen elements from the award-winning Round Series. The design of the Round Series Showerhead clearly echoes the VOLA aesthetic. Hearkening back to Arne Jacobsen’s 1971 Banker’s clock, designed for the Danish National Bank, the Round Showerhead plays with circular geometries. Like all VOLA products, it keeps its technical parts subtly hidden from view. Every product in the Round Series takes its proportions from the classic Arne Jacobsen tap specially designed for VOLA more than 40 years ago. The Round Series Showerhead is effortlessly elegant and classically VOLA.

About Hastings Tile & Bath

For 125 years, Hastings Tile & Bath has been at the forefront of design; providing architectural products to the building industry, beginning with pavers for large-scale installations such as the walkways that surround New York City’s Central Park. In the 1970s, the company began importing tile and bath products from Italy for the high-end home furnishings industry. Today, Hastings has over 150 Bath and Tile dealers across the country, including their own fashionable showrooms in the Architects & Designers Building in New York and in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. Known for providing a full range of innovative and functional products to architects and designers, Hastings Tile & Bath continues its long tradition of sourcing the best tile and plumbing products from Europe. Their collections have included some of the finest names in the industry; Fornasetti, Philippe Starck, Andrée Putnam, Gio Ponti, and they are the exclusive importer and distributor of the Arne Jacobsen designed, multiple award-winning Vola line in the United States. They are also the exclusive North American importer of the Sonia® line of contemporary bath products. They introduced the Chelsea bathtub and coordinating sinks in 2008 and in 2010 they expanded the collection with the addition of their own Chelsea H125 faucet line. Visit Hastings Tile & Bath at www.hastingstilebath.com. For additional information contact DRS and Associates at 818.981.8210 or www.drsandassociates.com.