A while back, we featured a kitchen sink with a marble backsplash that rises in a curve. This simple flourish—evocative of classic Italian washstands, fountains from antiquity, and boudoir bathrooms—captured our imaginations and sent us looking for more. Take a look:
Interior designer Beata Heuman adorned a London mews apartment with a Carrara marble and seagrass wallpaper halo.
Photography courtesy of Beata Heuman
The backsplash that got us started on this hunt: Frances Merrill of Reath Design designed this bar sink in Namibia White marble for a 1920s Mediterranean-style house.
Photograph by Laure Joliet
In a Sussex cottage, Beata Heuman skirted the utility sink with striped linen and detailed the marble backsplash with a subtle flourish.
Photograph courtesy of Beata Heuman
The pantry of Garrett and Cathy, the couple behind The Grit and Polish, with a backsplash that was cut, sanded, and honed by Garrett. “He added the concave corners for me,” says Cathy. “I love that it feels both Old World and fresh.”
Photograph courtesy of The Grit and Polish
For this peaked space in Sussex, Beata Heuman applied what she calls an “upstand” of richly veined Arabescato marble to the bathtub.
Photograph courtesy of Beata Heuman
At Il Palazzo Experimental in Venice, a new hotel designed by Dorothée Meilichzon of Chzon Design, the mine and yours bathroom mirrors are framed in curved marble.
Photograph courtesy of Il Palazzo Experimental
More curves in another Chzon design: the Henrietta Hotel.
Photography by Karel Balas, courtesy of Henrietta Hotel
The WC at Melbourne restaurant No. 92 features this antique marble basin sourced from Turkey. Pattern Studio designed the space to “evoke a refined rendition of an intimate salon.”
Photograph by Traianos Pakioufakis
For another skirted sink in the same Sussex cottage, Beata Heuman used acero, a gray limestone finished with a classic washstand backsplash.
Photograph by Traianos Pakioufakis