A bathroom like this in the glitzy Le Provençal development on the Côte d'Azur could cost €75,000 to €80,000 - that's for the fit-out alone, and doesn't include the cost of plumbing and electrics.
The aquarium would cost about €15,000, with annual maintenance charges of €1,000. A similar one here - a tropical marine system filled with clownfish (Nemo) - would cost around €10,000, including installation, says Simon Kilroy of Fish Antics in Dún Laoghaire (01 2846364, www.fishantics.com).
The sink unit is a handsome red marble, rosso carpazzi, from Albania, says Alessandra Palmarini, an interior architect from Studio A in Milan (www.studioa.milano.it), the firm which is designing all the interiors for the development. The wide-plank floor is not the one that will be installed - instead, it will be the backlit yellow clouded onyx below. Antica's Churchtown showroom (01-2960136) can supply yellow onyx, a semi-precious material from Iran, as well as the more popular white. Paddy McQuaid of Antica says it's perfect for bathrooms and is generally used as a feature wall. It will cost approximately €750 per sq m plus VAT.
The sink is separated from the pool-shaped bath by smoked glass and surrounded by Italian sandstone, and the wall above it is carved sandstone. A walk-in shower (not seen) has chrome Gessi taps. A sink unit - like the one shown - could cost €8,000 to €10,000 and the pool maybe as much as €50,000-€60,000, depending on the size, says Dermot McKeown of Waterloo Bathrooms in Dún Laoghaire (01 2842100).
