By day Aeon’s Abacus provides a stylish and unique finish to any room, by night creates a soft, subtle glow and relaxing evening ambience.
Abacus is available in a range of finishes from a brushed matt silver, gold, red to multi-coloured and more. Featuring 95 coloured sectioned aluminium balls which provide a subtle contrast with the radiator’s ten brushed satin finish stainless steel tubes, the colour combination is your choice.
The non-toxic paint coating contains special pigments that absorb energy from any light source, converting it into a soft-tone glow at night or when a room is in darkness. The first design to benefit from this treatment in the AEON range is Abacus, originally intended primarily for children’s bedrooms, rumpus rooms and playrooms, and inspired by the ancient Babylonian computing device of the same name.
Abacus also incorporates the engineering-led feature which has real aesthetic design benefits and is to be introduced across all wall-mounted AEON designs. A single point entry 50 mm centre-to-centre valve, sited at the bottom of the radiator, ensures that all pipe work for water entry/exit is hidden. The compact valve is also rear-mounted, enabling it to be contained within the lines of the radiator, minimising its intrusion into the overall design. This also enables Abacus to be sited closer to a wall than previous designs, making it suitable for the most confined of rooms.
AEON Managing Director, Saffet Kalender, says: “Good design does not always have to be a serious affair, it should be fun too! This radiator ticks both boxes with its new recessed central valve providing aesthetic, engineering and efficiency benefits, and the illuminated balls bringing a smile to the face of all who have seen the design so far, be they children or adults.”
This design is available in two sizes. The 1,600 mm tall Abacus features 95 sectioned aluminium balls positioned along its ten brushed satin finish stainless steel tubes. A shorter 950 mm tall variant has 70 balls. Customers can specify ball colour and illuminated paint effect, or a simple plain aluminium finish, at the time of ordering.
“The colour permutations are almost endless,” continues Kalender. “The Abacus balls can be made to glow in a wide range of hues, or can be finished in solid coloured paint without the special energy absorbing pigments that create this effect.”
