Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 31 No 13 New Zealand | Page 35

Secret agenda
When eventually discovered, this powder room envelops the occupant
in a cocoon of smooth, cool surfaces and warm counterpoints
A multi-purpose room may not always suit
an obvious connection to an attached bathroom.
One solution? Hide it away in the woodwork.
This bathroom or powder room is adjacent to
a space whose function may change over time.
Designer Joe Chindarsi decided to err on the
side of discretion, asking his cabinet maker to
create a pivot door for the bathroom that would
blend with the adjacent cabinets. Only a custom
folded brass handle, designed by Chindarsi,
provides a clue as to the bathroom’s existence –
and even that doesn’t look like a handle.
Inside, the bathroom is finished entirely in

polished cement, providing the occupant with
a comforting, cocooned effect, says Chindarsi.
“The clean-lined timber sink hangs off the
wall as a sculptural element. This offers a warm,
textural contrast to the concrete floor and walls,
and also to a black honed granite blade wall that
separates the shower from the toilet.”
Brass mosaics line the back of the shower
and this metal is seen again on the basin mixer
and spout, as well as on the long entry handle.
In the washbasin area, a Tasmanian blackwood niche echoes the form of the basin. The
internally lit cubbyhole is used as a display case.

Facing page: This discreet bathroom
by designer Joe Chindarsi is walled
and floored in textural polished
concrete. The cement and a black
granite blade privacy wall are
contrasted with the warmth of a
wooden wall sink, brass fittings, and
a micro-etched brass pendant.
Above: This multi-use room provides
little visual clue to the bathroom
attached to it. A long, linear handle
in rolled brass designed by Chindarsi,
operates the quiet pivot entry door.

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