An array of sensations can come over a person fumbling with the water knobs in the shower: a sudden chill, perhaps, or a burning blast. French architect Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The
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controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the
Torre Agbar
in Barcelona and the newly opened
Musée du Quai Branly
in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed...
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