Kitchen and Bath Accessories

Kitchen and bath accessories built around Emtek's towel ring range

Kitchen and bath accessories in this collection, part of the wider cabinet hardware assortment, run almost entirely through Emtek's towel ring lineup, spanning three design eras from one manufacturer instead of several brands mixed together. Traditional and Transitional rings keep a rounded, classic profile cast in brass, while Modern versions switch to tubular or rectangular shapes with sharper lines. Stainless steel and wrought steel options sit apart from the brass family, giving a cooler, more industrial look to a room that isn't leaning on warm metal tones elsewhere.

Brass cast four different ways

Emtek shapes its brass rings as sandcast, flared, tubular, and plain rectangular forms, each changing the ring's silhouette without changing the underlying metal. Sandcast Bronze carries a rougher, more textured surface than the smoother tubular brass ring, a difference that only really shows up at close range. Tuscany Bronze darkens and ages the same base material that Transitional Flared Brass keeps bright, so the two read as distant cousins rather than twins despite sharing a bronze family.

Picking a design era for the room

Traditional rings suit cabinetry with existing ornament, curved lines and visible detail rather than a stripped-back profile. Transitional splits the difference: simpler than Traditional, not as pared-down as Modern, and a natural pairing for a room mixing older cabinetry with newer fixtures. Modern rectangular and tubular rings belong with flat-panel doors and minimal trim, where a curved Traditional ring would sit oddly against the straight lines around it.

Stainless as the exception

Unlike the brass and bronze pieces, Emtek's stainless and wrought steel rings carry their finish in the base metal itself rather than a plated layer, so neither needs repolishing to stay looking the way it did on day one. Wrought steel in particular feels raw and substantial in hand, closer in spirit to Sandcast Bronze's texture than to the machined smoothness of tubular stainless. A single ring near the sink covers most households; a full remodel touching several fixtures at once can stay inside Emtek's range rather than sourcing pieces from separate manufacturers.