Our bodies nonverbally interact with objects daily and for no rhyme or reason, we feel preferences to the way certain cereal bowls and coffee cups fit inside our hands (for me it’s my precious Dean & Deluca mug). All too often we are left with the coined term “it just feels right” instead of understanding our affinities. Inevitably, the same relationship applies to large-scale containers – like bathtubs – since it fills up, soothes the body, and heats the soul almost as often as your coffee mug (hopefully).

Novecento. Designed by Agape in collaboration with Benedini Associati.

Italian manufacturer Agape and designers at Benedini Associati recently collaborated on Novecento, a modern bathroom collection that includes a white Cristalplant® bathtub. Rectangular in shape, the substantial yet sophisticated profile rounds inward, creating a basin of less surface area that may infuse words like “cradle” and “swaddle” into your design vocabulary. Novecento makes the difficult combination of style and functionality look easy with an optional chrome-plated, stainless steel towel rail that wraps around one or two opposing corners.

The Novecento tub dimensions are: 1800 mm (71″) in length, 800 mm (31.5″) in width and 530 mm (20.8″) in height, making it about ten inches longer than the standard bathtub size, according to interior design specialists like Ilene Meyers Miller, a writer for This Old House. For those of us who have never felt a tub has been long enough, perhaps Agape‘s Novecento bathtub “just feels right” because it actually does just that: it finally feels right.