If you have been an expat in Singapore for a long time, you must have become used to the heat on the Red Dot - so much so that if the temperature drops to even just 26 degrees, you will start feeling cold. Living on this modern island, you simply adjust to the heat. You have to! After all, it is the humidity that is the real killer and makes you sweat.
Strangely enough, the indoors are always very cold. Offices, shops, buses, all are freezing! This is the only country you must have been to where you remove articles of clothing when you exit a building. You will get goosebumps in the office all the time, and this will get even worse when it rains, as it seems that the aircon in the office is linked to the temperature outside, making the office feel colder when storms pick up.
This mix of temperatures we face during the day is probably the reason why Singaporean’s love home shower spas so much. Making a trip to a spa or even just thinking about it is quite exhausting in and of itself. We would rather turn our homes into a pampering spa retreat.
Creating a home spa is not as complicated as it seems. All you really need to get started is a bit of space, some essential oils, and a fair amount of time. On top of that, as we went through the course of the pandemic last year, a couple of local brands worked on coming up with new innovations that now enable Singaporeans to create a more personalised and sensory shower experience in their homes than ever before.
Introducing KOHLER’s Katalyst Air Induction Technology
KOHLER, a brand that has been offering a wide range of luxury bathroom and kitchen products in Singapore for the past 5 years, has launched its new Statement and Anthem collections.
By infusing two liters of air per minute, KOHLER’s Katalyst air induction technology delivers a powerful, voluptuous spray that clings to the body with larger, fuller water drops. The air is introduced into the water stream via a cleverly concealed venturi located in the ball joint to preserve the clean look of the showerhead.
Inspired by sleek design icons and soft approachable forms, KOHLER combines unique shapes with enduring craftsmanship and technology to breathe life into well-established shower standards. With this Statement collection, 7 immersive spray innovations allow one to craft a day-specific shower experience with an oblong shower head for a more enveloping entire body coverage, warm-misting Cloud spray, Deep Massage, Full Coverage Rain, a dense, wide Sweep, angled cascading Ribbon Massage and an Infinity spray for a 3-zone experience that incorporates rise, massage and coverage with interlaced shower streams.
The global Statement Collection includes a showerhead, four styles of hand showers, four unique rainheads, and two body sprays in a range of sizes and shapes.
Digitalisation of Shower Experiences in Singapore
KOHLER’s new Anthem mechanical and digital valve platforms have been meticulously engineered to fit global plumbing standards, while not compromising on KOHLER’s aesthetic specifications. The Anthem controls take their design cues from high-end home furnishings and have a minimalist, sophisticated, and warmly tactile vibe, with an intuitive and easy-to-use touch-sensitive control surface for the digital valve version.
Anthem’s valves can control up to six outlets, with independent temperature and flow adjustments from a soft, warm spray from the overhead rain head and a strong, hot massage from the hand shower. This makes for an almost endless combination of shower customisations for the Anthem’s set of shower sprays, rain heads and shower heads, which users can then programme up to 10 presets.
The Anthem even has a “warm-up mode” that purges cold water from the pipes and puts a hold on the hot water for up to two minutes until users are ready to get in the shower, and a voice-control function. With independent access to every spray and up to two temperature zones each, Anthem makes it easy to change settings with precision and set different levels of warmth for different areas of the body.
KOHLER’s new Anthem controls transform the daily routine of showering into a customised corporeal event with the ability to instill a sense of well-being and transform the day, befitting KOHLER’s thoughtful, customer-centric mindset that seeks to elevate the ordinary and awaken the senses with each KOHLER product.
