Aerin Lauder Brings Delft-Blue Florals to Kohler Sinks and Toilets

Aerin Lauder has designed a collection of hand-painted floral sinks and toilets for Kohler, built around the blue-and-white palette her grandmother Estée Lauder made famous in 1946. The Artist Editions Fleurette Collection — classic ceramic fixtures embellished with royal-blue blossoms — is available for preview now on Kohler's site and appears in the November issue of AD.

The lineage matters here. When Estée Lauder launched her beauty brand in 1946, she scouted customers' powder rooms to learn which color schemes they preferred, and that research drove her blue-and-white packaging. "Blue and white are part of my DNA," Aerin Lauder said, speaking from the Hamptons house she inherited from her grandmother — a living room still dressed head-to-toe in that combo. Lauder founded her own lifestyle brand, Aerin, in 2012.

How the collection works

Lauder developed the line with Kohler's team of artisans in Wisconsin. The designs are hand-embellished, not printed: royal-blue blossoms crawl across white ceramic in the pattern of Delftware (the blue-and-white Dutch pottery tradition).

The offering includes:

• Memoirs Stately pedestal sink — flowers creep from base to basin
• A rectangular undermount sink with the same botanical treatment
• Memoirs Stately toilet — the all-over floral pattern applied to the full fixture

A green-and-white variant also exists. Its hue matches Kohler's Heritage Aspen Green pieces, a retro line Lauder cites as the runner-up color combination from her grandmother's powder-room reconnaissance.

Where the inspiration came from

The source material is family inheritance, literally. Lauder drew on Delft plates and bowls passed down by Estée Lauder, plus a selection of 17th-century Dutch tiles. So the collection is less a mood-board exercise than a translation of heirlooms into bathroom ceramics.

The Kohler connection runs just as deep. "Some of my earliest memories were of Estée's colored sinks — especially her turquoise bathtub in Palm Beach," Lauder recalls. Kohler made all of them.

What does this change for buyers?

For anyone renovating a powder room, the collection signals that heritage brands are pushing decorative, statement-level fixtures back into the mainstream — hand-finished ceramics at a moment when minimal white suites have dominated showrooms. Lauder herself is splitting the line geographically: blue-and-white fixtures go into her Hamptons home, green-and-white counterparts into her house in Florida, mirroring her grandmother's instinct that color schemes are personal, room-by-room choices.

Her guiding logic is a family quote: "As Estée used to say, 'Everything can be beautiful if you take the time.'" The Fleurette Collection applies that patience to plumbing — and puts a three-generation Lauder color story back in the room where it started.