Lately, we’ve been seeing some wonderful rough plays on the idea of “faucet”. Our favorite is this sublime one made from a gracefully bent copper pipe spotted in a house tour at French by Design…though we are totally charmed by the “shovel faucet” devised by Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, two brothers whose seriously imaginitive d-i-y renovation was featured in New York Magazine last fall…

…and then there’s this steel pipe-as-towel-bar idea that we’d love to fool around with in copper…

Ron BenShoshan explain’s how he came up with it at Better Living Through Design.

Photo at top: Morten Holtum; middle photo Jason Schmidt

With thanks to Amanda Busch