Kitchen Details: The Perfect Wall-Mounted Hand Soap Dispenser For Over the Sink

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
updated May 2, 2019
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(Image credit: Jill Slater)

Two years ago we toured Alina’s beautiful New York kitchen, a rich, warm space full of pieces picked up on her travels around the world. While looking through this tour again recently, I found myself drawn to one photo in particular: a shot of a soap dispenser installed on the wall above Alina’s kitchen sink. It was beautiful and interesting, so I went looking for more information about it:

(Image credit: Jill Slater)

What I love about this particular dispenser design is that it operates on a smooth swinging motion. You put your finger on the front tab, tilt the bottle down, and it pours soap into your hands! What a lovely addition to a kitchen, don’t you think?

Unfortunately, it turns out that Alina purchased the soap dispenser from Napa Style, and it is no longer available. It was specifically made for that store, and at the time the tour was posted, she’d been unable to find a suitable replacement.

In my own internet search for “vintage wall-mounted soap dispenser,” I found a few similar designs, like this one from Le Maison Bleu and this one from Rockett St. George (neither available in the US, however). But I wonder if a little more sleuthing on Etsy or eBay would yield even more results.

Have you ever found a soap dispenser like this? Share your resources if you can!

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