Watermark

Designed by the People Who Specify It. Watermark's collections aren't drawn by an internal styling team guessing what designers want — they're drawn by designers themselves. The Brooklyn collection was created with Incorporated Architecture & Design, inspired by mid-century gate valves found in pre-war apartment blocks. Sutton came from a 1930s steam valve discovered in a salvage yard. H-Line was designed with Mark Zeff for a project on the High Line. Elan Vital turns commercial ball-valve hardware into a kitchen and bath collection that still looks ahead of its time a decade later.

The Customization Is Real. Watermark offers more than 35 finishes — including unlacquered living finishes that patina with use, knurled and hex-nut handles unlike anything else in the category, and recent Polished Pearl Gold and Satin Pearl Gold PVD additions. For designers and architects, Watermark specifies cleanly across kitchen, bath, shower, and accessories with solid brass construction, ceramic disc cartridges, and thermostatic controls — and custom finish matching is part of the standard offering, a meaningful advantage on projects where the fixture needs to coordinate with hardware that doesn't yet exist in any catalog.