New bathroom brand Coalbrook launches and opens experience-led showroom in Clerkenwell
The Market Building image credit: Nicholas Worley
We are delighted to welcome bathroom brand, Coalbrook UK to the Sandford roster. Below is the press release for their new brand as well as The Market Building.
PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER, 2021
The brand
Introducing Coalbrook, the newest brand from the UK’s leading premium bathroom distributor, Davroc. Launched in response to a gap in the market for design-led bathroom products at competitive prices, Coalbrook is an affordable luxury brand.
With boldness and innovation at its heart, Coalbrook takes timeless bathroom essentials and creates modern, stylish pieces. The company name is derived from the town of Coalbrookdale, the site of the world’s first iron bridge and industrial-inspired design is central to the brand’s identity.
The showroom
This month, The Market Building, a new experience-led showroom in the heart of Clerkenwell, will open its doors. Created by interior architects Holloway Li, The Market Building showcases Coalbrook products and celebrates the brand’s industrial heritage.
The ground floor is designed to appear like a landscape of industrial chimneys, with ghostly casts of Victorian bathroom wall panels in piercing orange and amber resin, which glow like furnaces. Shower displays are mounted onto ‘chimneys’ and situated beneath chainmail curtains.
A solid stone, post-tensioned staircase with rough quarried edges leads down to the basement level, where two large industrial boiler-like structures house working tap displays.
The innovative new showroom is also home to Davroc’s Bard & Brazier, who designed display units fabricated from brass tubing, and Bard & Blackwood who crafted the bespoke joinery. Other leading brands are also in residence as the FF&E is by Danish furniture supplier Menu and the lighting is manufactured by Phos.
The products
Currently, there are two ranges in the collection; Domo and Decca, with further additions launching early next year. Both have been created to provide something for every bathroom, including a selection of taps, deck and wall-mounted basin mixers, deck and freestanding bath fillers, showers and a complimentary accessories range. All are available in a choice of four bold finishes; brushed brass, brushed nickel, gunmetal and chrome.
Striking in its simplicity, Domo has a seamless look, which allows the pieces to fit perfectly into any bathroom space, whether traditional or contemporary. Combining form and function, this versatile range has a minimalist, industrial aesthetic.
Featuring disc handles with fluted edges, Decca brings modernity to the bathroom space with its subtle design. The grooves in the handles add texture, whilst the streamlined frame lends an urban feel.
Chris Dodds, Managing Director at Davroc and Coalbrook, commented,
“We are delighted to announce the launch of Coalbrook and the opening of The Market Building. The brand and products have been many years in development, after we noticed a gap in the market for stylish and affordable brassware.
Using our unrivalled knowledge and experience of the bathroom industry, we have created a brand with design and quality at the forefront to bring our customers innovative, exciting and affordable solutions that will elevate any bathroom space. We’re looking forward to opening the doors to The Market Building, which not only showcases the Coalbrook products, but brings the brand history and narrative to life, offering a memorable experience beyond the possibility of online channels.”
