Forget the clunky console and the suite of matching bath fixtures, the new wave in bath design breaks all the rules. Cobbled together from salvaged parts, antiques, DIY faucets, and industrial supplies, the deconstructed bath is about stripping the bath back to its bones. Here?s a look at 11 examples of the emerging trend.

Above: Architectural designer and builder Tom Givone designed the upstairs bath in the Floating Farmhouse with an 18th-century Italian marble sink mounted on angled supports.

Above: Designer Niki Turner created her bath from a freestanding sink mounted on a pair of vintage brackets, a claw-foot tub, and plumbing pipe taps. For more on the bath, see our post Steal This Look: A Vintage Bath in England with a DIY Faucet.
Above: The washbasin is one of the many DIY elements in the bathroom at photographer Ditte Isager’s Danish country house. For more, see Steal This Look: An Artful En Suite Bath in Copenhagen and Required Reading: The Inspired Home, Nests of Creatives.

Above: Another view of the Floating Farmhouse bath shows a 19th-century wood and zinc bathtub salvaged from a Lower East Side tenement encased in a stainless steel surround.

Above: Cassandra Ellis designed the bath of her London split-level apartment around the existing structural elements (the building is a Victorian school conversion). Ellis added a wall-mounted sink, a vintage toilet, and a bathtub with a backsplash made of handmade tiles from Marlborough.

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