We’re always ready to give our kitchens, entryways and bedrooms a makeover, but we almost never think about our bathrooms. The bathroom seems to be a non-place, one whose only job is to be functional, so we rarely stop to think about its aesthetics. Or rather, its aesthetics have been standardized into a handful of shapes and colors. Luckily, brands like Trone have decided to swim against this current of sameness.
The French maison is known precisely for fixtures that experiment with shape and color. Its range includes four toilet models: Callipyge, Orgueil, Icone and Altesse.

Just look at Callipyge to understand the brand’s spirit: the name recalls the Venus Callipyge, and its asymmetrical curves, built up across three layers of ceramic, play with light and shadow like a Greek bas relief reread in a contemporary key.

If Callipyge chases fluidity, Orgueil claims geometry instead. Here square forms soften into flowing curves, as if the ceramic were still in motion at the moment it was fired. To keep that visual continuity unbroken, the engineers pushed the duroplast toilet seat into a thirty millimeter distortion, a technical acrobatics that few will notice but that makes all the difference.

With Icone the conversation shifts from shape to the material at the heart of it all, water: a transparent tank reveals the proprietary HydraWise™ mechanism, able to regulate the flush down to the centiliter (from 50 cl to 6 liters) and cut consumption by up to 30%. There’s no seat lid here, a deliberate stylistic choice, since it would hide the water column, which remains the project’s most theatrical element.

Altesse, finally, carries the bathroom ritual into Japanese territory, with rear and front wash functions adjustable across five levels, warm air drying, two saved user profiles and a night light. A small domestic omotenashi that also cuts down on toilet paper use.

The thread running through it all is ceramic treated as a living material, never as a mere fixture, and the same holds for the rest of the range, from sinks to accessories. 

Trone wants to remind us that even the last room of the house can carry a designer’s signature.