LAUFEN’s Colour Archaeology Exhibition Comes to Roca London Gallery
Colour Archaeology is luxury bathroom manufacturer LAUFEN’s inaugural exhibition at sister brand Roca’s UK gallery space, running 14-26 April 2025.
The exhibition features a new ceramic colour palette, the outcome of an academic research project led by Roberto Sironi on behalf of LAUFEN. Drawing inspiration from over 10,000 artifacts housed in museums around the world, Sironi categorised these treasures into vibrant colour clusters that reflect their cultural origins. Working alongside the LAUFEN innovations team, he then crafted a refined palette of harmonious ceramic tones inspired by the classical artifacts.
LAUFEN’s Colour Archaeology exhibition comes to Roca London Gallery 14-26 April 2025
Vitrines containing replicas of the key classical artifacts will be on display at Roca London Gallery, alongside the LAUFEN products to which the new colours have been applied, namely: THE NEW CLASSIC by Marcel Wanders; VAL by Konstantin Grcic; and SONAR by Patricia Urquiola.
All of the LAUFEN products that showcase the new colour palette have been produced at the company’s highly innovative production facility in Austria and fired in the world’s first electric tunnel kiln, powered by renewable energy.
THE NEW CLASSIC by Marcel Wanders in Babylonian Sand; Sonar by Patricia Urquiola in Umber Green; ILBAGNOALESSI by Stefano Giovannoni in Burnt Orange. All images © LAUFEN
Head of Brand and Communications, Emma Mottram, says:
“Colour Archaeology is part of our ongoing mission to evolve our product in collaboration with contemporary thinkers and makers who are really pushing the design boundaries. We wanted to offer interior designers an opportunity to incorporate historically rooted colours into today’s bathrooms, creating environments that are authentic, connected to cultural history and truly timeless.”
Colour Archaeology was first unveiled during Milan Design Week 2024 and has toured to LAUFEN spaces worldwide including Vienna, Berlin and Prague. After the London exhibition, the pieces will travel to LAUFEN Space Miami.
Roca London Gallery manager, Josu Badiola, says:
“With Colour Archaeology coming to our company space in London, we can finally celebrate the innovative approach to design and sustainability that characterises the whole Roca Group.”
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