When the company LAUFEN was founded in Switzerland in 1892, sanitary conditions were well below today's standards and level of convenience – standards to which LAUFEN, the only sanitary porcelain manufacturer producing exclusively in Europe, contributed. The personality of this highly traditional Swiss brand reflects a symbiosis of design, quality and functionality. What makes LAUFEN products unique at the first glance is that their Swiss design unites two major design trends: emotional Italian design from the south and the northern tradition of design precision and clarity.