New England born and bred as we are, we can't help our affection for all things nautical, which includes Dutch designer Wieki Somers' boat-shaped bathtub that we saw last summer at the Victoria & Albert Museum's Telling Tales exhibition. When we took a look at her portfolio we saw that her work includes several other bathroom staples that she has creatively re-imagined.
IMAGE 1: The Bathboat reverses the traditional positions of the boat and the water, by creating a boat that holds water instead of the other way around.
IMAGE 2: In this project called, Come Clean, porcelain sculptures are embedded within soap. As the soap is washed away, the porcelain is revealed.
IMAGE 3: Frozen Bath again uses the idea of boat as bathtub, this time as an inflatable boat made of porcelain.
IMAGE 4: These perfume bottles are designed to look like a feather embedded in amber with the feather doubling as an applicator to brush on the scent.
To view more of Wieki Somers' work, visit her website, www.wiekisomers.com.
Images: 1, 4: Elian Somers
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The Bathboat is so beautiful! And it would have to be outside, in a setting just like that.
How clever, because it is beautiful in itself, full or empty! I can just see this on a deck, overlooking the water.
I wonder if it is lapped wood inside, which might be hard on the fundament...
The Bathboat is porcelain on the inside.
And I want one, even though I have neither the space nor the funds!