If last week’s new faucet from IB Rubinetterie left you saying “My God!,” today’s new showerhead from the very same manufacturer will have you exclaiming “God is in the details!” For such is the spirited verisimilitude with which the fun and stylish and functional piece duplicates the incipient precision of a pendulous drop of water. That’s not to say that the interpretations of Drop are confined to H20.

My short list of proximal entities which the silicone-based, lime-resistant showerhead evokes would include a technicolor turkey baster, an arcane Cuban delicacy which I can only translate as “Dragon Fruit,” and the unadorned head of an inverted Chia Pet. This list may push the bounds of credulity, put Drop is meant to be “easy, funny, and ironic”—a trio of adjectives, incidentally, which I rather enjoy adjacent to a bathroom product.

Designer Giulio Iacchetti has been “an industrial designer since 1992… He also carries out an intense didactic work for several universities and design schools.” If Drop is any indication, all that serious didacticism and academicism have not forsaken him of his sense of humor, for Drop is definitely good for a laugh or two. The piece has its functional side as well: silicone has anti-scaling properties, so whether you’re dealing with hard or soft water (which one feels like soap you can”t wash off?), Drop repels those pervasive chemical reactions that not only leave unsightly stains and streaks, but also clog up the spray. And perhaps this is the ultimate selling point for the whimsical, wonderful Drop: what better advertisement for the unimpeded flow of water than a burgeoning, symmetrical, super-sized drop of same? None that I can think of, especially when you can get it not only in aqueous blue, but in white, yellow, or black as well.

Via muuuz.