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Maybe great in a bar...
...but I wouldn't have it even in a powder room - it's much too pointy and it seems like anyone washing their hands would easily knock their elbows into those wings.

Conceptual art attempting to become a useful artifact?
Not happening... as neither.

Silly.

Emily

I am all about innovative design...but I just don't like this one.
I agree with bepsf, I could see it in a bar but I wouldn't want it in my house.

Reminds me of Marie Barone's sculpture from "Everybody Loves Raymond." It was quite, uh… feminine.

Even in a bar, someone could impale him- or herself on those corners. Ouch!

Nice but impractical, except in a chic hotel or bar as said.

It looks like an abstraction of Sister Bertrille. Nope.

How the heck does it work?

Wouldnt use it at home. But. It is the perfect basin for one our public baths here in Hamburg - the "Alsterschwimmhalle". Build 1973. Its roof is similar to that basin:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hh-alsterhalle.jpg

definitely for chic commercial f&b places

Function and design need to work together. That is all design and no function.

Seems like water would splash off the wings there. I don't understand how this works, but I guess it is more like a public fountain. There was a sculpture near where I worked that was kind of horrible, as I started work in the winter, and only in the spring, realized it's supposed to be a fountain, a very modern and blocky design, artsy, not like the "typical city fountain," dedicated to something or other. It really looked more like chairs, horrible, punishing chairs, and to see water rolling along its course was just a little too much. Just because this doesn't look like a sink doesn't mean it's not a sink, but it's very self-conscious and impractical. I think it's supposed to look like not a sink so people get the effect of surprise - I don't like a bathroom sink to tell me if I'm smart enough to get it or not. I'm sure it would get water all over the place, and although it looks designed to prevent splash onto your clothes, I think it would be even worse.

It looks very impractical except for homes where people dont actually wash their hands....
I would have many bruises from those sharp corners but hopefully not an injured eye if I had to pick something off the floor.

It looks kinda cool, and I'll trust that water doesn't just spill out the back, but heavens, how would one clean that gap???

Do you remember that episode of "everybody loves raymond" where the mother-in-law created a sculpture...

I don't get it...

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that, Bruce and Carder