The Impossible
Floating Tap
Company
Ten years of handmade floating tap water features. One obsession. Six products. Customers across the globe.
Water pouring from thin air. It really does look like magic.
A tap suspended in mid-air. No visible pipe. No explanation. When you first see it, the rational part of your brain simply refuses to accept what your eyes are telling it.
The earliest known patent for a floating liquid illusion display was filed in 1991 - a commercial device designed to make liquid appear to pour from an unattached spigot. From there the concept spread, most famously to Aqualand in Spain, where El grifo mágico — the Magic Tap — became one of the most photographed landmarks on the Costa de la Luz.
Giant versions followed: Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, public parks across Spain, Butlins in Skegness, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States, Canada. What started as an engineering curiosity became a global phenomenon.
The question nobody had answered was a simple one: why couldn't this come home?
Bringing the Impossible Home
The first patent
The earliest known patent for a floating liquid illusion display is filed — a commercial-scale device for trade shows and exhibitions. The technology exists. Nobody has made it domestic.
Theme parks take notice
Giant floating tap installations appear at water parks across Europe and beyond. They become landmarks — photographed by thousands of visitors. Still nothing you can bring home.
The Impossible Floating Tap Company is founded
Established in Oxfordshire with one idea: create a properly made, domestically scaled floating tap water feature. Solid brass, copper, no plastic — available to order, designed for everyday gardens and homes.
The range grows
Starting with a single design, the collection expands one feature at a time. The Valve. The Spring. The Cooper. The Grand. The Station. Each one built to order, each one better than the last.
Still focused. Still handmade.
Ten years on, every feature is still built, painted, tested and packed by hand in Oxfordshire. The plan hasn't changed — make the best floating tap water features available anywhere.
One focus. No shortcuts.
There were others on the market when we started. Rather than follow what already existed, the goal was to do it our own way — design something built to last, offer it in a range of styles and colours, and keep improving it. No shortcuts, no plastic, no compromise on quality.
While others have moved on or diversified, The Impossible Floating Tap Company has stayed focused. Floating tap water features are all we make. All we think about. All we've done for ten years.
That focus shows in the product. Solid brass tap. Hand-soldered copper spout. Hand-painted, lacquered finish. A pump specifically chosen for low noise and long life. Every detail considered, every feature tested before it leaves.
No plastic. No shortcuts. No compromise on quality — that hasn't changed since the first prototype.
Six features. One obsession.
From Oxfordshire to everywhere.
Features from the collection have been installed in home gardens, pub courtyards, hotel lobbies, international expos, shop fronts, offices, ponds and lakes — and if the emails are anything to go by, a Victorian stone sink, a repurposed cattle trough, the corner of a swimming pool, and at least one very ambitious garden gnome display.
If it holds water, someone has probably tried it.
Every feature still leaves our hands.
Every feature that leaves us has been made by hand, tested, and packed by the same small team that started this in 2014. That hasn't changed and we don't intend it to.
Thank you for supporting something genuinely handmade.
Mike & Sam Whitehouse The Impossible Floating Tap Company · Oxfordshire · Est. 2014Ready to see one?
Every feature is made to order. Pick your style, choose your colour, and we'll build it for you.
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