Milan-base MOMA design is not to be confused with the greatest city's great museum of the Modern, though one might be forgiven for conjecturing that the product output of the company (whose acronym stretches out into "Material of Modern Architecture") may someday find a permanent home among Dalí's "Persistence of Memory" or Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans." For wasn't it formal innovation and conceptual daring that lifted those artists into iconic cultural status? With regard to Milan's MOMA, the currency isn't canvas but rather a pair of unlikely square showerheads made of the even unlikelier material of Corian. Seen before by readers in past posts like the Corian Illumination Series and Iris, the durable and beautiful material seems destined for unorthodox applications. If this is the expectation, than neither Docciacqua nor Square 1200 disappoints.

Square 1200. Designed by Moma Design.

To the contrary, both models defy aesthetic and functional expectations. Docciacqua (trans., "water of the gods") is a glistening white square cube jutting insistently from the wall courtesy of a stainless steel arm. Water delivery for the piece happens via the 25 equally spaced apertures which, operating in perfect harmony, unleash a uniform array of water bars. If that coinage sounds odd, have a look at the freeze-frame photo of Docciacqua in action-the water emerging from the piece resembles exquisite cylinders of transparent Lucite.

Square 1200. Designed by Moma Design.

Docciacqua. Designed by Moma Design.

Docciacqua. Designed by Moma Design.

Next, MOMA's Square 1200 is a rectangular grid that sits flush against the ceiling. Ostensibly, the piece is the very same color as Docciacqua, but in fact the color is effectively any shade of your choosing; at least, that is, from among those falling into the LED electromagnetic spectrum. The actual water apertures are in the center square of the entire apparatus. These offer 144 micro shafts of H20, giving you a delightful, light-touch, pins-and-needles type sensation: the perfect tactile experience to complement Shower LED's visual tour de force.

Via Trendir.