BLANCO's LUNEOO//OOVALON stages kitchen water like light — Red Dot Best of the Best 2026

BLANCO's LUNEOO//OOVALON UNIT began with a reframing: the sink, the tap and the technology under the counter were not to be treated as separate products but as one unified system. As Marcel Moritz, BLANCO's global head of design and innovation, put it, the central question was always how they work together and feel as a unit — the result should be more than the sum of its parts.

The design language borrows from lighting. The LUNEOO faucet is described as lamp-like, staging water the way a luminaire stages light, with two variants: a classic hot-and-cold LUNEOO-S and CHOICE LUNEOO-S, which adds filtered, sparkling, chilled and boiling water through an external control unit. Its magnetic dual-spray head and slim connector were engineered to carry boiling water without surface heat build-up; the oval OOVALON sink in patented Velgranit counters it with soft walls, sharp chamfers and a floating metal grid that creates a second functional level.

Interaction was designed as deliberately tactile: LUNEOO's controls carry noticeable and audible detent points so the tap communicates directly through the hand, with the app reserved for filter changes, CO₂ cylinder swaps, reordering consumables and tracking drinking habits — "digital where practical, tactile where it counts". The UNIT then collected the German Design Award 2026 in Gold, the iF Design Award 2026 and Red Dot's highest product-design honour, Best of the Best 2026, in the Kitchen category.