Quiet Geometry
A bathroom by Nicola Manning of Nicola Manning Design, Auckland, and a featured 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards project.
Quiet Geometry does exactly what the name promises. The room is organised around alignment, repetition and proportion, and nothing has been added that would disrupt it.
Tile setting-out and joinery lines have been coordinated so that the grid reads continuously across surfaces. It is fussy work that looks effortless when it lands.
The palette is pale and even, which lets the geometry be the subject and keeps the room feeling larger than its footprint.
Function has been folded neatly into the order: storage sits within the composition, and the wet area is defined by the geometry rather than interrupting it.
A bathroom by Nicola Manning of Nicola Manning Design in Auckland, entered in the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards.
