The original

modern tap

Since its first collection in 1968, VOLA

has exemplified design excellence. The

collaboration between VOLA owner Verner

Overgaard and architect Arne Jacobsen

combined form and function, craft and

modularity, to create a timeless design ethos.

Their new, built-in tap concept attracted instant

international acclaim. With its circular and linear

forms and revolutionary hidden plumbing, the

world’s first fully integrated single lever mixer tap

changed bathroom design forever.

New products followed, all of which were

founded on Jacobsen’s original principles

of purity of design, quality of materials and

integrity of manufacture. The modular system

ensured that every product was flexible as

well as functional. To this day, each product

is made to order at the VOLA factory in

Horsens, Denmark, crafted using advanced

metalworking techniques and finished by hand.

Opposite Teit Weylandt with 111 plans.

Top right Arne Jacobsen 1968.

Above The original 111 designed in 1968.

Bottom left First prototype of the single lever mixer tap.

Bottom right An original drawing from 1968.

The first VOLA mixer tap, the

111, is the essence of the pared

back form, a circle within a

circle, bisected by a simple line.

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