If you've a yen for performing your daily bathing ritual in the loving embrace of wondrous nature, try it for a day or two (or a week, if you're the intrepid type). You'll soon discover that the idea of being caressed by random falling water while the morning air nips at your bare skin is not all it's cracked up to be. Besides, the season for outdoor bathing is nigh on over-unless you live in the Caribbean, perhaps. But failing that-and mindful of a realistic re-appraisal of the notion-how much better to indulge in facsimiles of same, albeit in a controlled and heated environment. Just so, The Elemental Spa collection of Bathroom Fittings by Sieger Design for Dornbracht distills the best of cleansing au natural into a tempting trio of water delivery devices.

Elemental Spa Shower Head. Designed by Sieger Design for Dornbracht.

The name Elemental Spa pretty much sums up the concept, a revelation of "the archaic and the original: the element water changes its surroundings. That is why Elemental Spa makes water the centre of attention. It becomes the starting point for personal and shared rituals in physical and mental cleansing, and makes the bathroom a refuge for the soul."

If the copy sounds compelling, just wait till you see the product. The line is comprised of wall-mounted and free-standing mixers and a ceiling-mounted rain showerhead. In line with the elemental theme, each tap delivers water the way nature intended: in gentle cascades, clear and crystalline, conforming to the shape of its gravitational pull as it slips from the spout.

That about sums up the look of the water released by Elemental Spa, but what of the fittings themselves? They're sleek and geometrical and somewhere just shy of futuristic. The wall-mounted models are horizontally oriented, with a small, rectangular aperture for the spout; freestanding units resemble an inverted L, giving them the appearance of a faithful sentry at duty or a leggy waterbird; and the showerhead is a simple box with a metal plate recession for the apertures. All fittings in the Elemental line are as white as snow, which-though it's precisely what you don't want to find when you're bathing in the great outdoors-looks just right in the inviting sanctuary of Dornbracht's Elemental Spa.