Brass in the bathroom.

Everything's chrome-plated today – the thinnest of steel, zinc, even plastic! You can usually tell because the weight doesn't seem right. And the workmanship is often sloppy and not made to last – which you notice when the thin layer of chrome starts peeling off after a few weeks and the metal underneath gets rusty. (We've seen real sponges left on chrome plate go brown in less than a week.) The next few articles we present are also chrome-plated – but with a difference: the metal below is solid nickel-plated brass. In other words, built to last. And rustless – we promise. All of them are manufactured in Germany or Italy with a copper content of around 60%.

A good way to dry your towels: on the radiator.

Slip our dryer on to the kitchen or bathroom radiator and you have the simplest and most sensible device to hang and dry your small towels, kitchen cloths and other small things on. It has an adjustable frame that can be adapted to radiators with a projection of up to 11 cm.