August, 2009 — Blending sleek surfaces and soft curves with distinctive traditional design elements, the new Talis® C faucets for lavs, bidets and tubs bring a classic elegance with a modern touch to the bathroom. All of the lav faucets in this extensive, new collection use EcoRight™ technology to limit flow rates to 1.35 or 1.5 gallons per minute (GPM) — a 30% to 40% savings over conventional faucets. Designers can combine these new faucets with Hansgrohe's Raindance® C showerheads, handshowers and bodysprays to create a coordinated look that delivers the latest in showering comfort and convenience while catering to individual tastes.
Romantic, yet minimalistic: Created by Hansgrohe's long-time collaborator, Phoenix Design of Stuttgart and Tokyo, Talis C mixes traditional styling with a romantic, yet minimalistic look that has generated a large and enthusiastic following among American designers and consumers in recent years.
For example, the single-hole lav faucets feature a slim, smooth, cylindrical design with a right-angle spout reminiscent of water fountains and hand pumps of an earlier era. Their tapered, bell-shaped bases convey solidity and stability, yet leave ample room for hand-washing beneath the prominent spout, whose robust design ends gracefully with a softly curved ring.
The romantic minimalism of Talis C finds full expression in the delicate contours of the lever handle that runs parallel to the spout below. But despite its slender dimensions, the handle still provides the user with a firm grip, while its Boltic lock prevents it from vibrating when turning the water on and off.
Like a mountain stream: New with the Talis C offering is a single-hole lav faucet with a flat open spout, designed to look like water flowing from a natural spring. "Our intent," explains Nicolas Grohe, Hansgrohe Director of Product Development and Marketing for North America, "was to give the consumer the opportunity to experience water in a pure, natural manner, as if he or she were washing in a mountain stream."
As always, there is a modern twist to this return to nature. Offering the largest water savings in the Talis C line, the Open Spout Single-Hole Faucet has a flow rate of only 1.35 GPM, nearly a full gallon under the current federal mandate of 2.2 GPM.

Besides three different single-hole faucets for the lavatory, the Talis C offering also includes:

• Widespread Lav Faucet, with a flow rate of 1.5 gallons per minute (GPM), representing a 30% water savings over conventional faucets;
• Single-Hole Bidet Faucet, with a flow rate of 2.2 GPM and a swivel aerator;
• Two-Hole Thermostatic Tub Filler, which combines temperature control and volume control in a single device;
• Three-Hole Thermostatic Tub Filler, which not only melds temperature control and volume controls, but also includes a Raindance C 100 AIR 3-Jet Handshower with a flow rate of 2.5 GPM;
• Three-Hole Roman Tub Set, with a flow rate of up to 10 GPM with a water pressure of 44 pounds per square inch (psi);
• Four-Hole Roman Tub Set, again with a flow rate of up to 10 GPM, but also including a Raindance C 100 AIR 3-Jet Handshower.

All Talis C faucets feature solid brass construction and the Quiclean® cleaning system, which allows mineral deposits to be removed from the aerator in the spout with just a flick of the finger. The lav and bidet models incorporate either an M2 or a 90° ceramic cartridge, designed to provide consistently superior performance over many years.
Four finishes: The entire Talis C line is available in four finishes: Hansgrohe's new rubbed bronze finish as well as brushed nickel, oil rub bronze and chrome.

• The rub bronze look, introduced earlier this year by Hansgrohe, is a special lacquer finish that is darker than oil rubbed bronze. The hand-brushing used to apply the finish reveals bronze and copper tones, thus creating the appearance of a more aged piece — an excellent complement to the romantic, traditional look of Talis C.
• The brushed nickel and oil rub bronze finishes are created through a PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) process that bonds to the fitting on a molecular level, creating a thin, but highly impervious layer of long-lasting protection.

Hansgrohe's World of Styles: Talis C is part of Hansgrohe's growing World of Styles, a highly diversified offering of faucets, showers and accessories for the modern bath and kitchen. Spanning contemporary (the "S" Series), transitional ("E" Series) and traditional ("C" Series) elements, the World of Styles gives designers, architects and their clientele more design options and more product choices than ever before.
About Hansgrohe: Founded in 1901, Hansgrohe is the premium brand for bathroom and kitchen fixtures, and a market leader in showers and shower systems, as well as thermostat, pressure balance and ceramic cartridge technology. A winner of numerous awards throughout the world, Hansgrohe is regarded as one of the leading innovators in technology and design, with inventions such as the adjustable showerbar, multiple-spray handshowers and showerheads, the Quiclean® function, AIR and water-saving EcoRight™ technology. These and other original products have helped reinvent the modern bath as a more functional, more comfortable and more beautiful living space.
Based in Schiltach in the Black Forest region of Germany, Hansgrohe has a global workforce of more than 3,200 and serves customers in over 80 countries through 28 subsidiaries. Known for taking tough action against product piracy and intellectual property theft, the company currently operates 10 manufacturing facilities, including six in Germany, as well as single plants in France, the Netherlands and China. In addition, the company manufactures and assembles most of its Hansgrohe-branded products for North America at its modern manufacturing facility in Alpharetta, Ga., in the U.S.A.