Shop FrontFlick through the current batch of interiors magazine and you'll notice that the new thing in bathrooms (and on every second page, it seems) are sink units with a raised basin, like a bowl sitting on a fancy counter.

Most look like baptismal fonts or something you'd put fruit in rather than use to wash your face and tend to come with freestanding tap units.

Sure, it's a fad (according to Architectural Digest, Donna Karan has several), but the good thing about the unit pictured here is that with its drawers, mirror and shelving, it will give your bathroom a new modern look in an instant.

That's if you can stomach the €3,839 price tag.

Carmenta at Elegant John, North Wall, Dublin 1.