Awards, design accolades and design quality

The Hansgrohe Group is a design leader in the sanitation industry. It’s not by chance: We know that excellence in form and function outlasts short-lived trends and has emotional value for our customers. Many products from the AXOR and hansgrohe brands have scooped international design awards – make this your trump card in consultations and sales.

Award-winning design for bathrooms and kitchens

Customer needs are our main focus. All creatives working with AXOR and hansgrohe are inspired by the human desire for more indulgence, beauty and comfort. And so the search for the smartest solutions and the best design quality is always our top priority.

Excellent selling points for AXOR and hansgrohe design:

Design and functionality go hand in hand. The branded products fulfil the highest standards, impress users with their intuitive operation and redefine aesthetic standards.
The product ranges, collections and interior design solutions are made to last both from a technical and visual perspective. And they are made in an efficient and resource-conserving way.
Branded products made by AXOR and hansgrohe are a safe investment for your customers. After all, excellent design quality never goes out of fashion.

Latest design accolades: gold, winner, best of the best...

The fact that we have struck gold with our design philosophy has been confirmed by a range of independent panels of experts, who regularly hand us a variety of design awards. With its many quality awards, the Hansgrohe Group is the iF design leader in the sanitation industry. You can find a current cross-section of our awards in the image gallery.

The highest design prize to be awarded by the International Forum Design has already gone to AXOR collections and hansgrohe lines several times.

Since 1995, the Red Dot jury of experts in Essen has regularly awarded prizes to bathroom and kitchen products from the AXOR and hansgrohe brands.

The German Design Council’s premium award for internationally pioneering products has gone to Hansgrohe Group brands multiple times over. It is awarded to top-class and internationally pioneering products.

The German Design Council awards the Iconic Award "Innovative Architecture best of best" to top solutions in architecture and design worldwide. Including the FinishPlus product family.

The German Design Council presents the Iconic Award "Innovative Interior best of best" to the best design and architectural solutions. AXOR and hansgrohe also make design icons.

Hall of Fame: our designers

World-famous designers collaborate with AXOR and hansgrohe. They are masterminds in bathroom and kitchen design and conjure up sensational collections and ranges with our creative team.

All taps and showers by AXOR feature a sensational design, as they are made with internationally renowned designers such as Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola and Jean-Marie Massaud.

All key products from the hansgrohe brand are designed by Phoenix Design: The internationally renowned innovators from Stuttgart and the Hansgrohe Group have been partners in good taste for more than 30 years.

Meet the designers in the Hansgrohe Group. — How do you strike the balance between functionality and magic? With an intense and productive exchange between internal and external designers.

Philippe Starck. The relentless free spirit. He creates ‘aha’ moments, and his designs set the bar internationally. This has been the case for more than 20 years in bathroom design with AXOR.

Jean-Marie Massaud. Advocate of organic design. Together with AXOR, he dreams of the bathroom of the future and makes it a reality. With organic taps, wash basins and bath tubs.

Phoenix Design. World-renowned product designers and pioneers of bathroom design. They have been a design partner of the Hansgrohe company since 1987 and of the AXOR brand for more than 20 years.

Patricia Urquiola. Champion of style fusion, emotional bathroom design and an AXOR design partner. She launched an entire bathroom collection with the brand in 2008.

Antonio Citterio. The Gentleman of Design. He’s the real deal and works on everything from hotel bathrooms to luxurious private bathrooms. A wealth of experience translated into three AXOR collections.

Barber & Osgerby. Proponents of interactive design and design artists in the bathroom. Their AXOR One shower range made its début at the London Design Festival in 2015.

Front. Designers with an experimental spirit. They designed an installation of pipes, valves and funnels. These new archetypes then became AXOR ShowerProducts designed by Front.

Nendo. Poetic design from Japan. The AXOR LampShower was created from the dream of combining a living room lamp with water. A signature piece in the bathroom. A milestone in shower design.