Once you start noticing Kohler, it’s hard to unsee: the sink in your bathroom, the toilet in your favorite café, the fixtures in the highest-end hotel you’ve ever slept in. Founded in 1873, the company has embedded itself into the rituals of daily life — often by rethinking what utility can look like, and pushing the boundaries of what it should.
Its first bathtub, famously, was a cast-iron horse trough. And in 1985, Kohler took another creative leap with the launch of Artist Editions — a program that brought art into modern bathroom trends in ways that felt groundbreaking then, and still do now.
