Archive for January, 2012

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.

BLANCO sinks and faucets appeared on many TV makeover shows in 2011. So we thought it would be fun if we put all these beautiful before and after kitchen clips into a short inspiration video. If you are looking for great design ideas, click below:

BLANCO received more PR hits in 2011 than in any previous year! Over 50% more impressions than in 2010. For a short video on all the great news, click the image below!

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.