It's interesting, reminds me of a cobra. Then again DS is very into spitting cobras right now...

I like it but wish the handle were less stick-like.

I like it! Can it be installed without the escutcheon plate?

It doesn't look cheap (is it? Extra points if it is!).

It'll attract attention for sure.

cluelessincolorado -- funny you should say that. :)

dianalo -- Me too. I think it is trying to be "modern." (Or contemporary or whatever you call it now.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Cobra faucet

fori -- I just looked it up, and yes you can leave off the escutcheon plate. I don't like those either. (I have one with my current sink/faucet setup.) Cheap depends on what you compare it to. It is around $260 give or take at a couple of websites. I don't know anything about Elkay faucet reliability, though, whether it'd need to be replaced in 5 yrs or would last 20 or what.

I totally looks like a cobra. I think I like it too.

I like the looks of the faucet. Couple things to check out are the flow rate, and the flexibility to reach all areas of the sink, like you said. I have a Danze commercial style faucet, and the flow rate is 2.5, if I'm reading the spec sheet correctly. The flow rate on your faucet is 1.5, which is more common. Make sure that is enough. As far as reaching, these tend to be stiffer than the pull out kind. It does take some getting used to. I like the fact that you don't have to push the hose back, or re-seat the faucet head in an arm when finished using it, which I have to do with the Danze. It's pretty inexpensive, so I'd say go for it. If you hate it, you're not out alot of money to replace it.

I LOVE it. LOVE it. But it's clearly not for OCD types who would spend hours trying to get it to stand perfectly straight again...

Circuspeanut, that's what I was thinking...wondering how long it would actually stay standing nice and straight like that before it got some odd bends in it that drove the owner nuts!
You'd have to play with it in the showroom to see if it holds its shape after lots of use.

sochi and circuspeanut -- thanks, nice to know I am not crazy. :) And I laughed out loud at the OCD remark.

joyce_6333 -- the spec sheet says it comes with 1.5 installed and a 2.5 one also included in the box (as if I would ever remember where I put it or how to change them out). Do you have any trouble with the exposed spiral grooves on your faucet hose (assuming yours has them)? I am just wondering if they would get gunky after a while.

singingmicki -- I wondered too! Its "natural" shape seemed to be curved over a little more than in that picture but I'd have to go back and check. I got the impression that the one I saw was a very recent arrival in the showroom, so maybe I'll go back in a couple of months (if my existing faucet lasts that long) and see if it has gotten more floppy. Maybe there is a good reason the Karbon is stiffer.

It does not have a "natural shape." Look at the video. It stays in whatever messy, uneven shape you last bent it to. Would drive me nuts.

I've never had an Elkay faucet (maybe they've only recently gotten into residential faucets?) but they've been in the sink and commercial faucet business an awfully long time.

If the shape annoys you, can't you just mash it down into the sink in a fit of rage?

The ribs might be a hassle to clean...but I forget most households don't get chunks of food EVERYwhere.

Marcolo and fori, you are both making me laugh! Did that make you cringe too, when the fellow in the video set it upright and the spout was off center? Surely that would never happen in MY house.

So I showed the picture to DH when he got home and he said, as predicted, that he didn't care and whatever I wanted was fine with him. He also informed me that our current one, which he bought over 20 yrs ago, is a Grohe. I guess I ought to quit referring to it as "that thing," eh?