9 Standout Moments from KBIS 2025

1. Kohler

Considering that Kohler took home KBIS’s coveted Best of Show award for the third year running, the plumbing giant’s immersive 15,000-square-foot booth brimmed with innovative products across its portfolio of brands: Ann Sacks, Kallista, Kast, Klafs, Robern, and Sterling. Quickly catching this writer’s eye was a towering sculpture by artist David Franklin, an alum of the Kohler MakerSpace program that hosts artists working on a special project or commission. The artwork, called Scuola Di Pesci, depicts a whirlpool of schooling fish cast in vitreous china. There were also demos of the state-of-the-art ice baths Kohler created in collaboration with Remedy Place, the social wellness club with locations in West Hollywood and Manhattan.

The product highlights were many. Ann Sacks showed up strong with exquisite stone offerings like the hand-carved marble Strike Fireplaces by Dallas designer Chad Dorsey, Orin marble mosaics in a soulful Rosso Levanto colorway, and hand-poured terrazzo incorporating brass, mother of pearl, and rose quartz by American artisan Andy Fleishman. Kallista upped the ante with the Bezel collection, its first faceted soft square profile faucet featuring an Art Deco–inspired silhouette with a touch of classicism. Also on view was the Landshapes Tile Collection, a collaboration between artist Daniel Arsham and Kohler WasteLAB, whose texture is inspired by sand deposits left behind by crashing waves. Each tile is produced from nearly 100 percent recycled materials that are poured around hand-layered patterns of torn paper and fired at a soft incline to create subtle, eye-catching shifts in color.

2. Monogram

Showing how its state-of-the-art appliances can be integrated everywhere in the home and even on wheels, Monogram gave attendees a full-on house tour with an immersive booth that took luxury living to the next level. A spacious kitchen featuring serene earth tones, Studio M chandeliers, and appliances like an integrated glass-door refrigerator quickly set the mood. It transitioned into the blush-inspired bath, where a double-drawer refrigerator stored essentials like skincare serums and sparkling water. Most mesmerizing was the wine room, a library-inspired hideaway fully upholstered in floral Cowtan & Tout fabrics and outfitted with abundant wine storage. Monogram even took things outside, custom-designing a Lexus GX kitted out with specialty features like a built-in smart flush hearth oven and forge heated ice press. 

3. Neolith

Vanessa Deleon incorporates Neolith stone as a secret weapon in her glamorous projects—hallway inserts, drawer fronts—to give them extra bursts of elegance and personality. So the interior designer and television personality was the perfect ambassador to help curate an edit of the Spain-based brand’s sustainable stone offerings at KBIS. Her hand-picked selections encompass a stunning array of colors, from the moody black Niagara and the exuberantly veined San Simone to the earth-toned Colorado Dunes. “Design is more than aesthetics—it’s about storytelling through materials,” Deleon commented. On that note, her edit also joined Neolith’s newly launched Atmosphere Range, a series of stone models whose subtle veining and surface patterns contain a breezy, inspiring spirit.

4. Brizo

More moments of calm came courtesy of Brizo, which mounted an entire structure inside its otherwise buzzing booth in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s low-slung architecture. The wood-clad structure signaled an expansion of the luxury fittings giant’s Frank Lloyd Wright Kitchen Collection, which required intense consultations with the late American architect’s eponymous foundation to ensure the offerings honor his vision. The collection of faucets check that box and then some—each is imbued with his principles of organic architecture and intentional asymmetry for an unexpected experience in the kitchen. This year, its palette was expanded to introduce innovative handle materials like glass and concrete as well as split finishes—why not pair onyx with wood on a handle?—as a clever ode to Wright’s timeless artistry.

5. Artistic Tile

Artistic Tile’s highly graphic mosaic tiles are always a feast for the eyes—and its latest batch of designs sated our appetite for playful patterns. The New Jersey tile titan recently joined forces with Donghia to translate two patterns from the legendary heritage brand’s library onto stone. Most appropriate for the Las Vegas setting is the Donghia signature Casino Royale, which was translated into a striking multicolor mosaic and waterjet design. Evocative of casino carpets, the rich asymmetrical arabesque is cut from different colors of natural stone and surrounded by lines of tesserae mosaic in contrasting yet sophisticated tones.  

6. Cambria

Beckoning attendees to Cambria’s booth was a lustrous reception desk demonstrating the Minnesota quartz stone brand’s stellar backlighting capabilities. The monolithic desk was clad in the popular Brighton pattern, a harmonious blend of luminous white, soft creams, warm taupe, and subtle gray quartz that creates a dazzling showpiece with mesmerizing depth and reflectivity. A side-by-side comparison of standard versus backlit Brighton drove the point home—as did a backlit fireplace in the same pattern that practically stole the show. 

7. True Residential x Caliber

One of the most colorful booths came from True Residential, which debuted its 2025 Color of the Year: a satisfying olive tone that combines earthy, mossy greens with hints of grays. Joining the stalwart home refrigeration brand’s Build Your True Program of 84 curated custom finish and hardware combinations, the color blends seamlessly into modern and classic kitchens. But the brand also had even bigger news: it announced a strategic partnership with Caliber, a brand known for superbly crafted professional grills and precision grilling expertise. The joint venture allows True—now the sole manufacturer of Caliber grills—to provide a full-service outdoor kitchen program in any of its custom pieces. The Rockwell Social Grill, a 360-degree walk-around grill envisioned by architect David Rockwell, will be the brand’s first offering.

8. SKS

Newly rebranded from Signature Kitchen Suite, the epicurean-favorite SKS enjoyed a buzzy presence thanks to multiple live cooking demonstrations by the likes of renowned chefs Nick Ritchie and Vincent Morelli. The brand also showcased its full portfolio of built-in kitchen appliances through four immersive vignettes emphasizing the seamless integration of SKS products into highly functional kitchen systems. Key among them was the groundbreaking Island System concept: a futuristic kitchen island featuring an “invisible” induction cooktop that blends in with the countertop’s subtle woodgrain finish when not in use. Its downdraft ventilation system, flush with the counter’s surface until needed, employs proprietary air curtain technology for removal of smoke and steam when cooking. Built-in storage spaces surrounding the downdraft ventilation provide useful refrigeration nooks for ingredient jars.

9. Café

Café’s booth was all about color and customization. The appliance brand collaborated with color analysis expert Megan Tinkler on four stations where attendees received style advice on what colors best compliment their skin tone, eyes, and hair, and were guided to the kitchen vignette that best suits their personalized palette. Each vignette embodied the essence of the four seasons, from winter’s dark and moody hues—think customizable dishwashers in matte black with brushed brass hardware—to the flowing lines, romantic florals, and wood tones emblematic of summer, made all the more lustrous by vibrant Harlequin by Sanderson Design Group wallpaper. After getting style advice, visitors then voted on their favorite color for a new Café Specialty Drip Coffee Maker slated to debut next year.