Hansgrohe has launched a new competition aimed at showroom-based bathroom designers across the UK and Ireland, as it looks to crown its bathroom designer of the year for 2025.
The competition is open to any project completed in the last 12 months, or due to be finished in 2025. Hansgrohe says the competition will “celebrate the creation of inspiring bathroom spaces that incorporate high quality aesthetics, innovative technology and best utilise Hansgrohe’s bathroom products under its leading brands – hansgrohe and AXOR – within new or refurbishment bathroom projects”.
Hansgrohe is accepting anything from smaller projects to complete high-end luxury installations, and bathroom designers can submit as many entries as they like. The competition has three categories: projects valued up to £10,000, projects between £10,000 and £25,000 and projects exceeding £25,000.
Entrants can integrate either Hansgrohe or Axor accessories (or both), as well as basin mixers, shower components, ceramics and furniture, so long as they combine to create “a cohesive and exceptional user experience”.
The company says those looking to enter should include technical drawings, floorplans and product specifications as well as photos and other visuals that showcase the completed design in situ.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025. After this, Hansgrohe will announce a shortlist of five finalists in each category in November, with the final designs going on to be reviewed by an expert judging panel. Hansgrohe says the winners will be revealed in December of this year.
The winners of each category will go on to become ambassadors for Hansgrohe and Axor UK, and also be awarded with vouchers to spend on a luxury holiday of their choosing.
Erika Dodds, channel marketing manager for showroom Ttade at Hansgrohe UK & Ireland, commented: “As a product creator and manufacturer we continually collaborate with the showroom retail sector. This new competition provides the opportunity to recognise the variety of stunning work showroom designers are delivering every day for clients and share the creativity that customers come to value from their showroom experience.
“We are asking to see designs that incorporate showers, taps, basins, and accessories from the hansgrohe and AXOR ranges, to showcase the ultimate holistic bathroom. The judges want to challenge the current generation of bathroom design talent to submit design solutions with a real ‘wow’ factor.”
Sarah Evans, Hansgrohe’s head of product marketing in the UK – who is also a judge for the competition – added: “With so much creative design talent operating in the industry, we will be searching for the standout entries that combine aesthetics with function, and which will deliver an unrivalled bathroom experience. We expect the standard of entries in each category to be extremely high and look forward to viewing what visionary bathroom designers are creating for real life projects.”
Designers can enter the competition by clicking here.