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Vol. 1, No. 1
Vol. 7, No. 2
Complement
history
Brizo® faucets add just
the right touch to
Evergreen Manor
DESign viEw
our ProMiSE
Distinctive designs. Inventive technologies.
COVER STORY
Brizo faucets complement
history in Evergreen
Manor, which was
transformed for the
Decorators’ Show House.
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(Story pages 4-6.)
DID YOU KNOW...
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recycled more than 7,500
pounds of metals and
other materials in 2010?
Visit deltafaucet.com and
brizo.com to learn more
about our commitment
to sustainability.
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Media on behalf of Delta Faucet Company.
Editorial address: 55 E. 111th Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46280
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DIAMOND are trademarks of Masco
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DREAM2O is a service mark of Masco
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WaterSense is a registered trademark of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
St. Jude Dream Home is a registered trademark of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Sub-Zero, Inc.
Wolf is a registered trademark of
Wolf Appliances, Inc.
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Volume 7, Number 2.
Printed in the United States.
Copyright 2011 Delta Faucet Company.
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Care in how it’s built. These three pillars represent
our commitment to customers and provide the
foundation for the Brizo® brand.
You and your clients experience the first two
pillars—our fashion-forward designs and innovative
technologies—every time you interact with Brizo
products. We also encourage hands-on interaction in
our new DREAM2O Showroom (see page 3) at
The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois.
Our third commitment to customers—care in how
it’s built—may not be as easily seen or experienced, but it’s
equally important. And it’s at the heart of the Brizo brand.
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carE for tHE EnvironMEnt
We believe that living green can also feel luxurious.
We offer a broad range of WaterSense®-labeled lavatory
faucets as well as WaterSense-labeled showerheads to
complement any Brizo bath collection. Using inventive
technologies, like H2Okinetic Technology®, we are
able to deliver an exceptional user experience while
also conserving water in many cases. In fact, that’s
one of the reasons why we were named the 2011
WaterSense Manufacturer Partner of the Year by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Our commitment to the environment extends to
our manufacturing facilities where we recycle metals,
plastic and other materials used in production.
carE in Manufacturing
We take great pride in the performance of our
products. Our DIAMOND™ Valve, for example, is built
to last up to 10 times longer than the industry standard.*
Numerous quality and performance checkpoints
are built into the manufacturing process, and our team
assembles each Brizo product by hand to ensure the
highest quality standards. We also stand behind every
Brizo product with our warranties.
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carE for our coMMunity
The Brizo brand team is proud to support the
Decorators’ Show House and Gardens in Indianapolis,
Indiana. Showcasing the work of local interior and
landscape designers, this annual fundraiser is sponsored
by St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild to benefit a local
hospital. Take a tour of this year’s home on pages 4-6.
As the first-ever national sponsor of the St. Jude
Dream Home® Giveaway, the Brizo brand team is
honored to support St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital. All proceeds from Dream Home raffle ticket
sales go to St. Jude for research and treatment efforts,
in addition
to supporting
“Every dollar the Brizo
patient families.
brand donates in
Over the
product is a dollar we
past two years,
don’t have to spend on
the Brizo brand
the house. that means
has contributed
more money goes
approximately $1
directly to the children.”
million in faucet
Alan Johnson, Program Director
St. Jude Dream Home giveaway Program
and accessory
donations for
more than 55 Dream Home houses and helped St. Jude
raise $47 million. It is a privilege to work with building
industry professionals who dedicate their time, resources
and talents to benefit St. Jude. We’re humbled by
everyone’s efforts to help this remarkable organization
achieve its mission. Learn more at brizo.com/stjude.
Distinctive designs. Inventive technologies. Care in
how it’s built. This promise drives our team to deliver
an outstanding experience for your clients. And it’s
helping extraordinary organizations that are making our
communities better places to live.
Brian Nobbe, Director of Brizo
Delta Faucet Company
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DreAM2O shOwrOOM is An Open
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The Merchandise Mart in
downtown Chicago looms large
as the epicenter for design and
luxury goods. It is also home
to the Delta Faucet Company
DREAM2O showroom.
The 3,000-plus-square-foot
“playground” is, as its name
implies, a dream space where
architects, designers and homeowners can fully experience the
Delta® and Brizo® brands.
“From day one, the showroom
was envisioned to be a hands-on,
interactive environment where
visitors could experience
Delta and Brizo products and
technologies for themselves,
and get their hands wet,” says
Linda Kirby, president of Kirby
Design and Consulting, LLC, and
designer of the space. “It is meant
to be inviting and to encourage
new ways of thinking about
faucets and how we use water.”
“We explored a lot of new
ground and blazed a lot of
new trails,” adds Aaron Conk,
merchandising and trade show
manager, Delta Faucet Company.
“As a faucet company, we work
with water. We want to give
people the chance to interact with
what we do, to let people see our
technology and see what all the
fuss is about.”
experiment and explore
The DREAM2O showroom
features 96 working product
displays. Visitors are encouraged
to touch, feel and interact with
the faucets and shower systems.
They can see the graceful stream
of water from a ribbon faucet with
a laminar flow. They can feel how
H2Okinetic Technology® delivers
a luxurious shower experience.
They can test the sensitivity of
Touch2O® Technology.
The DreAM2O showroom provides
a hands-on space for visitors to fully
experience the Delta and Brizo brands.
For Peter Nicholson, Foresight
Design Initiative, Chicago, the
DREAM2O showroom is a bold
step in the right direction. “We
live in a virtual world,” he says.
“But when you’re looking at new
technology, especially when it has
a tactile function such as water
droplets or touch technology, to
be able to see, touch and try it,
makes a huge difference,” he says.
HigH-tecH features
The showroom also integrates
a variety of high-tech resources,
including a 9-foot by 3-foot
interactive touch wall that features
a photo library with the ability
to view product details, modify
finishes, and view videos and
technology overviews.
A showroom iPad® app
features full catalogs for Delta
and Brizo products. Visitors can
create an account, save products
to their “favorites” library and
email information.
“People use faucets more than
anything else in their homes,”
says Bob Downie, regional
manager, Delta Faucet Company.
“It’s important for them to be
comfortable with a faucet’s flow,
performance, etc. For ‘test driving’
faucets, there’s no better place than
the DREAM2O showroom.”
For a virtual tour, visit the
Video Gallery on brizo.com or
select the Videos tab on our
Facebook page (facebook.com/
brizofaucet). i
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Cover Story
CoMpleMent
Brizo® fauCetS aDD juSt the right
touCh to evergreen Manor
Driving down historic North
evergreen Manor is one of four
original “Mansions of north
Meridian Street” in indianapolis.
Diana Bryant, db interiors, llc.
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a tresa faucet at the kitchen sink
(cover) and a tresa bridge faucet
in the pantry (right) combine with a
coordinating Brizo pot filler at the
range to provide timeless elegance
and distinctive design for Diana
Bryant’s historical kitchen and
pantry design.
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Meridian Street in Indianapolis,
Indiana, is a lesson in American
architecture, with homes representing structural designs that
include Tudor and Colonial
Revival, Jacobean, Neoclassical
and even Prairie-style. Named
“One of America’s Great Streets”
and listed on the National
Register of Historic Places, it
showcases mansions dating back
to the early 20th century.
Many of these homes have
been featured in the Decorators’
Show House and Gardens, which
is an annual fundraiser organized
by St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild
hiStory
for Wishard Health Services. This
past spring the Guild celebrated
floor to ceiling, and overall, the
space was far from user-friendly.
its 50th Show House event by
restoring Evergreen Manor, one
of the four original “Mansions of
North Meridian Street.”
Out went the 24-inch by
24-inch ceiling panels and the
cabinets, as well as a wall in
the middle of the kitchen. She
redid the roof and created a new
entrance in the pantry/bar area,
which revealed framework for a
door that was in the original floor
plan. An additional back wall was
also removed to make way for
a seating area in the kitchen to
watch TV.
In came new stainless steel
appliances, including a Wolf ®
microwave drawer and range as
well as a Sub-Zero® refrigerator
and wine cube. Custom cabinets
—maple with a sienna clay finish
on the uppers and pecan with a
cherry stain on the bases—are
set off with granite countertops
and handmade Jeffrey Court
wall tiles with a crackle-effect
finish. The refinished wood
floor is trimmed with 7.5-inch
moulding to match the rest of
the house. In the pantry, “funky”
accent lighting and faux leather
wallpaper create a warm space.
Brizo Tresa® faucets add the
finishing touch at the kitchen and
pantry sinks. A coordinating
HigHligHt arcHitecture
For Diana Bryant, owner of
db interiors, llc., in Indianapolis,
renovating the kitchen and butler’s
pantry proved challenging. In
the kitchen, seven windows and
three operable doors left little wall
space. Stainless steel ceiling panels
cut off trim, grazing the tops of the
windows. In the pantry, high-gloss
burgundy-colored cabinets ran
Stacy Riley, Compass Design, LLC
Stacy Riley was space-challenged in the small gentleman’s bathroom. But high
ceilings, accented with a custom treatment, and Vesi® Channel faucet and
shower add just the right touches to open up the space and provide a classic
feel with “just enough” updates.
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Brizo® pot filler at the range
enhances functionality.
“The Tresa® faucet is a great
choice for this house,” she says.
Its classical, traditional design
is inspired by early European
fountains and combines timeless
elegance with distinctive design.
“It’s a great look for highend kitchens with architectural
features from the past,” she says.
“Even though the house is very
traditional, the homeowner still
wanted modern conveniences,
and the Tresa faucets gave us the
opportunity to blend everything.”
classic and timeless
In a space that was little more
than 7 feet long and 6 feet wide,
Stacy Riley, owner of Compass
Design, LLC in Indianapolis, had
to include all the necessities of a
gentleman’s bath.
“It had potential, but it was
such a small space that didn’t have
a lot going for it,” she says. “It was
awkward, with a shower wall that
was above 6 feet tall. It was so
closed in. My goal was to make it
appear as large as it could be. In
the end, we were able to show
that you can turn a small, old
space into something updated
and modern.”
The one bright spot in the
room was the nearly 10-foot-high
ceiling. Riley added a detailed
treatment made of customcrafted, half-round moulding
and circles. Pearlescent paint and
glaze give it a touch of shimmer,
without being glitzy. “It provides
a little shine and reflectivity
so light bounces off,” she says.
“Plus, it brings your eye up and
makes the space feel larger.”
Riley opened up the room by
shortening the tiled shower wall
to about knee height and adding
glass to extend the shower wall.
New Calcutta gold marble and
8-inch by 16-inch porcelain tile
in the shower blend with the
existing 4-inch by 4-inch white
tiles on the floor.
Riley also used the goldcolored marble for the vanity top,
which contrasts with a contemporary console vanity in cherry.
“The brown and gray with white
background blends all the colors
in the space,” she explains. “It’s a
unifying material for the room.”
A Brizo Vesi® Channel faucet
and shower complete the look.
“This faucet maintains the classic
feel of the home, but adds a little
modernization that updates it
‘just enough,’” she says. “And the
Polished Chrome finish is something that was available at the time
the house was built. It’s a classic...
very timeless.”
simple confidence
While small in space, the
powder room makes a confident
statement thanks to Matt Harris,
MW Harris, LLC in Indianapolis.
Inspiration for the room
began with bold, colorful wallpaper. “To me, it’s a contemporary
version of a William and Morris
print,” he says. “It’s current, yet
offers reference to the architecture
of the house.”
Original white tile on the
floor and white tile wainscot are
set off by an 8-inch oversized
mahogany chair rail that runs the
perimeter of the room. “Because
the wainscot was low, at only
about 30 inches, it offered a way
to transition from the tile to the
wallpaper, and, more importantly,
gave me something to anchor
the sink at the right height,”
Harris says.
The mahogany wood ties in
with the mahogany paneling in
the nearby entryway, which he
also designed, and the red paint
on the powder room mirror
matches an oversized entry hall
table painted the same color.
The distinctive sink is paired
with a Brizo Siderna™ faucet in a
Polished Chrome finish.
“This faucet plays to the
geometry of the space,” he says.
“The sink is shallow, long and
open [underneath], and the
wallpaper is bold and graphic. I
needed the rest of the room to be
simple and this faucet serves as a
complementary piece to it all.” i
Matt Harris, MW Harris, LLC
Matt harris made a confident statement in the
powder room with a bold, colorful wallpaper that is
complemented with a distinctive sink and Siderna™
faucet in a polished Chrome finish.
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Brizo® Vesi® Channel and Siderna™ lavatory faucets are WaterSense® labeled.
dEsign nEws
do MorE thAn just
gEt your hAnds clEAn
dEltA® “touch” tEchnologiEs EffortlEssly control wAtEr
Most people use their
bathroom faucets at least five
to 10 times a day, according
to a recent study conducted
on behalf of Delta Faucet
Company. For parents with
young children, the water
flows even more frequently.
Thanks to the availability
of Touch2O® Technology and
Touch2O.xt™ Technology from
the Delta brand, turning the
water on and off—no matter
how many times you do it
each day—is easier and more
convenient than ever before.
EffortlEss
First introduced in the kitchen,
Touch2O Technology is now
available in the bathroom. A simple
touch anywhere on the handle or
spout turns the water on and off.
with touch2o technology, a simple touch anywhere on the handle or spout turns the water on and off.
With Touch2O.xt Technology,
homeowners can also go completely
hands-free. There’s no “faucet
dance” needed thanks to the use
bAlAncE forM
And function
currently available in delta
Pilar®, Pilar waterfall® and
Addison® kitchen faucets,
touch2o technology is also an
option in delta trinsic™ pull-down
of advanced sensing technology.
The entire faucet acts as a sensor
that automatically turns on
when a hand is placed within
the four-inch sensing field.
Remove hands from the sensing
area and the faucet turns off.
With both technologies
in one faucet, it’s effortless to
wash hands, brush teeth, shave
faces and clean up messes.
kitchen and bar/prep faucets.
the urban-styled kitchen
collection strikes a balance between form and function while offering
sleek styles consistent with current urban and Euro design trends.
AddEd bEnEfits
While certainly convenient
and easy, the availability of these
technologies may also make it
easier to conserve water. Because
water flow can effortlessly be
controlled—either with a touch
on the spout or handle, or a simple
hand movement near the faucet—
it’s easy to turn off the water flow
between tasks to help save water.
Look for these newest
technologies in Lahara® and
Addison® bathroom faucet
designs. Touch2O.xt Technology
faucets are available exclusively
through the trade or special
order through retail. i
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