Almost 1 billion people are living without clean drinking water everyday… and you can help. BLANCO will launch a Facebook campaign to raise money and awareness for water conservation through The Thirst Project. For every LIKE received on Facebook, BLANCO will donate $1 to the Thirst Project. The Thirst Project goal is to provide safe, clean water and sanitization to 1 Million people by 2015. Visit www.thirstproject.org to learn more and importantly visit our facebook page since every LIKE equals safe, clean water to people in need.

On Super Bowl Sunday, BLANCO products were featured in an Ultimate Cookoff Challenge on NFL Today, filmed at De Gustibus Cooking School in New York City. BLANCO recently partnered with the renowned cooking school to outfit their newly remodeled kitchen with a stunning KONTROLE™  professional faucet, PRECISION™ stainless steel sink and ALTA™ soap dispenser. Look for the stunning KONTROLE faucet in the clip below!

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BLANCO is a 2011 Interior Design Best of Year (BOY) Finalist Award and winner of the GOOD DESIGN Award for the beautiful BLANCO CULINA Semi Professional faucet.

The BLANCO CULINA displays clear innovation combined with artistic appeal. CULINA is the ultimate chef’s faucet – redefined with elegant lines and a breakthrough magnetic hook up with closed coil that offer effortless performance without entanglement. The CULINA is no stranger to winning awards. In the past year alone, the exceptional faucet has swept top industry honors including KB Culture, iF, Red Dot and IDEA awards.

“The CULINA’s charm and breakthough design has made a huge impact in the industry,” stated Tim Maicher, Director of Marketing for BLANCO. “Winning so many awards by such highly regarded peers  is remarkable.”

BLANCO has been recognized by the design community with four Interior Design BOY awards in the last three years for MicroEdge, SOLON, RONIS and now CULINA. (Three of the four awards were BOY Winners.) The editors of Interior Design Magazine post their Merit Finalist selections from a wide field of entries and then BOY Winners are selected by the design community through online voting. Over 60,000 votes were tallied in this year’s competition.

The GOOD DESIGN award is presented by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and honors everyday products from the world””””s most prominent designers and manufacturers including Mercedes Benz, Apple, BMW, Porsche, BSH Bosch, etc. Several thousands of entries from over 50 nations submitted the best of their new products to the world’s most important design program that honors innovation, vision, sustainability, and the competitive design edge.

Vote for CULINA for the chance to win this award winning faucet. Visit our Facebook page to learn more. Click here.

What BLANCO faucet are you? Visit BLANCO on Facebook and answer our survey to be entered to win the faucet you choose. To view BLANCO faucets visit www.blancoamerica.com. LIKE us on Facebook and we will enter you 2X! Winners will be drawn on January 31st via random drawing.

As if winning a faucet was not enough incentive to play… we will also donate to a specific charity depending on which faucet gets the most votes.  If CULINA wins, we will donate to DIFFA – PURUS 1 is represented by Habitat for Humanity and if HYDRA wins, we will donate to The Thirst Project. Vote for your favorite faucet or your favorite charity. Everyone is a winner!

Vote now for your favorite faucet!

Please note that BLANCO employees and sales representatives are not eligible to win this contest.

EatnListen.com, the foodie and entertainment news blog, is holding a BLANCO Fantastic Fans Giveaway Contest featuring BLANCO’s innovative new CULINA Semi-Professional Faucet. Three lucky fans will win a CULINA! For details on how to enter this fun promotion, please visit EatnListen.com!

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World-renowned chef and TV personality Eric Ripert teamed up with three globally renowned “stars” of kitchen design – Poggenpohl cabinetry, Miele appliances and BLANCO sinks/faucets – to outfit the set for the second season of his Emmy award-winning show “AVEC ERIC.” This week, the press got a close-up and personal view of the set kitchen and Chef Ripert’s thoughts on kitchen design.

Ripert, the internationally recognized chef of New York City’s Le Bernardin, served food prepared by his restaurant staff and inspired by his travels on the show, AVEC ERIC. Every show comes home to Ripert’s stunning kitchen where he creates exciting meals incorporating the ingredients from his travels.

“I am thrilled to have Poggenpohl, Miele and BLANCO associated with my show, and thank them for their generous support of AVEC ERIC,” states Ripert.  Ripert’s kitchen plays an important part in his creative process and is truly a reflection of his holistic approach to food and lifestyle. The 13-episode series airs nationally on PBS stations. Check local listings for times.

The kitchen was designed with the cutting board in front of the cooktop, so Chef Ripert may cook and plate in one continuous motion.

BLANCO RADOS faucet being a quiet but well-used hero throughout

A rare opportunity to watch Ripert's staff in motion prepping recipes from Avec Eric

Ripert talks about kitchen design for chefs. Putting everything in its place or in Eric's words, "Mise En Place"

Yesterday, the BLANCO Design Council toured BLANCO’s SILGRANIT sink manufacturing facility in Sinsheim. The plant is one of only a few in the world that makes composite granite sinks. BLANCO has two plants – one in Toronto Canada and one in Sinsheim. There are 7 patents in the world on composite sinks. 6 are exclusive to BLANCO. SILGRANIT is a unique formulation that’s stain resistant, heat resistant, non-scratching, non-fading and tougher than actual granite. The plant is so top secret – they wouldn’t let us film in the factory. We snuck in these photos. Around the world, SILGRANIT II sinks come in over 100 stylish designs and 11 colors. We will soon have our 7th trend setting color in the U.S. – Truffle!!! OK we snuck in a preview of Truffle below as well. It’s soooooo cool.

Tim, Cheryl, Susan and Paul pose with their safety goggles before entering plant.

Leslie and Jamie get ready for their tour!

We saw these being made... look for the new Truffle sink color in April!!