vola®

Shortly after Danish architect Arne Jacobsen won a competition in 1961 for his design of Denmark’s National Bank, he was contacted by Verner Overgaard, the owner of VOLA A/S, who introduced his idea for a new type of wall-mounted mixer tap. Overgaard imagined a design where all the mechanical parts of the mixer were hidden, leaving only the handles and spout exposed. At the time, this was a completely new concept and Jacobsen realized that combined with his functional approach to design this idea had great potential. With that basic principle in mind, the simple VOLA design that we know today was conceived. VOLA is manufactured by VOLA A/S a well established Danish company founded in 1873, owned and run by the Overgaard family.