The Brief
How do you make a hotel bathroom feel rock-and-roll?
You start with the finish. Hard Rock is a brand built on warmth, brass, and a little swagger, so a cold chrome shower would have fought the story. The answer at Hard Rock Hotel London, Ontario was matte brushed gold — carried from the lighting and mirror frames straight into the shower hardware, so the whole bathroom reads as one intentional, amplified gesture rather than a collection of parts.
VIGO's Elan frameless sliding door was specified to deliver that look at scale. Frameless glass keeps the wet zone open and gallery-bright; the slim gold roller bar and tubular handle add just enough hardware to feel like jewelry; and a custom etched arched-glass motif gives each shower a graphic signature you notice the second you walk in.
The Product
What VIGO shower door is in the Hard Rock London bathrooms?
The bathrooms use the VIGO Elan frameless sliding shower door in matte brushed gold. The Elan is a frameless sliding (bypass) door built on 3/8-inch tempered glass with a top-mounted roller system — VIGO's RollerDisk™ hardware glides quietly and the design adjusts to out-of-plumb walls, which matters across dozens of rooms that are never perfectly identical.
- 01Matte brushed gold finishA warm, 7-layer plated finish over 304 stainless steel — fingerprint-resistant and color-matched to the hotel's brass accents.
- 023/8-inch tempered glass10 mm safety glass meeting ANSI Z97.1 and 16 CFR 1201, available clear or with the custom etched arched-glass pattern.
- 03RollerDisk™ sliding systemSmooth, quiet top-roller glide with wall-adjust tolerance for fast, consistent installation room to room.
- 04Custom sizingVIGO produced non-standard heights to fit the hotel's openings — the same custom capability available to any project.
Why It Works
Do gold frameless doors hold up in a hotel?
Yes — and that is the whole point of specifying spec-grade glass. A hotel shower door is opened thousands of times a year and cleaned almost daily, so the failure points are the rollers, the seals, and the finish. The Elan answers all three: 304 stainless hardware resists corrosion in a wet room, the brushed-gold plating hides water spots and fingerprints better than polished finishes, and frameless construction means there are fewer channels for soap scum and mildew to collect — faster housekeeping, fewer service calls.
