Designed for Every Space: How Zip Water Redefines Accessible Luxury in Modern Interiors 21st November 2025 | IN KBB DESIGN | BY SBID

The most inspiring spaces feel effortless to live in. They blend beauty and purpose, shaping environments that are as intuitive as they are elegant. Accessibility sits at the heart of this evolution. When every detail is considered and every user anticipated, everyday living becomes something extraordinary.

HydroTap is more than an innovation – it’s a refined expression of inclusive design that brings elegance, simplicity, and usability together in perfect balance. By reimagining the way we experience water, Zip has created a solution that not only enhances the way kitchens look, but how they are lived in – ensuring that design performs seamlessly for everyone regardless of age, mobility, or dexterity.

Zip Water, Designed for Every Space: How Zip Water Redefines Accessible Luxury in Modern Interiors
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Freedom of placement, freedom of design

True design freedom transforms function into experience. The HydroTap embodies this philosophy, engineered with precision to adapt effortlessly to the rhythm of modern living.

Designed for ultimate freedom of placement, HydroTap offers flexibility unlike any other solution. It can be positioned beside the sink, integrated within a kitchen island, or installed in living spaces, home offices, and bars. Its compact, under-counter solution allows complete creative freedom, freeing the tap from traditional limitations and enabling seamless integration into virtually any environment.

This versatility delivers a cohesive aesthetic across every space, with the HydroTap’s refined form complementing a wide range of materials, finishes, and architectural styles. Every element from advanced technology to its sculpted silhouette reflects a commitment to purposeful, enduring design.

Recognised as the Society of British and International Interior Design (SBID) “Kitchen Product of the Year 2025”, the HydroTap Arc Plus exemplifies how Zip Water continues to redefine modern hydration, setting a new industry benchmark where performance, innovation, and design excellence meet.

Zip Water, Designed for Every Space: How Zip Water Redefines Accessible Luxury in Modern Interiors
Imagery credit to Freedom by Symphony

Inclusive by intention

Our award-winning range of tap designs offers a wealth of choice, with options for instant boiling, chilled, sparkling, or ambient filtered water, all powered by the latest G5 Command Centre. This system ensures precise temperature control, energy efficiency, and quiet operation, with exceptional performance to any environment.

Every detail of HydroTap is crafted for intuitive use. From its cool-to-touch spout and responsive touch controls to its user-friendly interface, the design prioritises effortless interaction for user of all ages and abilities. Accessibility is built in, not added on ensuring comfort and confidence with every use.

The optional accessibility controller extends this inclusivity even further. Compact yet powerful, it allows users to control functionality and flow remotely, supporting varied user needs and spatial layouts. It can be installed beside the sink, on the countertop, on the side of cupboards, or paired with a font anywhere in the home. Whether operated by touch or through the controller, the HydroTap adapts effortlessly to the user, not the other way around.

Through this flexible, human-centred approach, the HydroTap becomes more than a fixture; it becomes part of the home’s natural rhythm. Every user, whether standing, seated, with limited reach or dexterity, experiences the same simplicity, control, and ease – proving that true accessibility begins with thoughtful design.

Zip Water, Designed for Every Space: How Zip Water Redefines Accessible Luxury in Modern Interiors
Imagery credit to Freedom by Symphony

Design for Performance, People, and Planet

Zip products are built on a balance of form and function – where design serves purpose. Every system combines advanced technology with practical design to deliver reliable performance, user accessibility, and energy efficiency.

HydroTap systems are engineered for real-world use: insulated for thermal efficiency, equipped with intelligent energy management, and designed for easy, inclusive operation across environments. By providing instant filtered water, they reduce reliance on single-use plastics and promote sustainable, long-term hydration solutions without compromising on convenience or performance.

Zip Water, Designed for Every Space: How Zip Water Redefines Accessible Luxury in Modern Interiors
Imagery credit to Freedom by Symphony

Designing the future of inclusive luxury

As the boundaries between accessibility, sustainability, and luxury continue to dissolve, Zip stands at the forefront of a new design era – one defined by empathy, intelligence, and enduring style. Every Zip creation is guided by the belief that design should be inclusive by nature, sustainable by purpose, and enriching by experience.

In every sense, Zip represents the future of considered living. It’s where purposeful design meets lasting impact, where beauty serves function, and innovation serves people. From the way we drink water to the way we design our spaces, Zip continues to redefine what it means to live thoughtfully.

About Zip Water

Experience water at its best with the ultimate in luxury home appliances. Zip Water are manufacturers of the iconic Zip HydroTap – a revolutionary drinking water appliance offering the very best in filtered boiling, chilled and sparkling water; designed to upgrade your lifestyle. A health-boosting, time-saving, space-saving and planet-saving marvel, the HydroTap transforms ordinary tap water into something extraordinary.

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