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Toilet Paper Room Divider
Western Interiors and Design

6-18-tp divider.jpgYou may remember that a few months ago we posted Look!: How Not to Run Out of Toilet Paper. We just noticed this more stylish version in the October-November issue of Western Interiors and Design.

 
 

It was designed by Gary Hutton and Timothy Gemmill for art collector Chara Schreyer's pied-a-terre at Four Seasons Residences in San Francisco. It's described as "a steel vessel that holds rows of toilet paper and playfully evokes a modernist sculpture."

Image: Matthew Millman

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Sorry to be so negative on this, but I dislike the lack of coherency between the austere minimalism of this bathroom (walls, sink, faucet, door etc.) and such a jarring expression of excess. The latter seems to contradict and negate the former, without enough wit or aesthetic consolation to redeem the lack of harmony.

posted by lightspeed on June 18th 2008 at 8:33pm
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I think it's brilliant.

posted by Comicgeek on June 18th 2008 at 9:43pm
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I like it!

posted by clemoni on June 18th 2008 at 11:59pm
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geez lightspeed......lighten up.

yes, it's silly but the bathroom is so severe that you need something like this "sculpture" to soften it.

posted by kahlil19107 on June 19th 2008 at 12:24am
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I want to rush into this bathroom, turn the water on full blast as if to wash my hands, and watch as the water sails across the space transforming the the toilet paper partition into a wall of papier-mache.

Sometimes ideas need to remain thoughts and not be implemented.

posted by Marco on June 19th 2008 at 1:50am
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Clever idea. But one missing roll would drive me crazy.

posted by BillyRes on June 19th 2008 at 2:19am
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That is a great idea.

posted by mva1201 on June 19th 2008 at 3:02am
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Hate to be "negative" as well, but there are more than eighty rolls there... it's a neat idea, but isn't it wasteful, since even one missing roll ruins the aesthetic?

posted by fraise on June 19th 2008 at 4:02am
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BillyRes my same thoughts I would constantly be buying tp to keep it full at all times.

posted by LoriSF on June 19th 2008 at 5:33am
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Hopefully they don't have any cats living there who would trail all the rolls across the place!

posted by mmepatty on June 19th 2008 at 5:57am
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Holy Shit. :-)

posted by Bryan Hale on June 19th 2008 at 6:23am
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i think it would resemble this video game as the rolls run out and move down....

http://www.binarysun.co.uk/free-games/bubble-blitz/

hehehhe

posted by little flower on June 19th 2008 at 6:30am
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fraise, what if you filled it up with seventh generation toilet paper instead?

posted by little flower on June 19th 2008 at 6:36am
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You can see through the tubes.

posted by K T G on June 19th 2008 at 6:55am
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a playful little kid would have a ball with this....

http://www.picturequest.com/itemDetail.aspx?itemID=24042125

it would be a pain to clean up though..

posted by little flower on June 19th 2008 at 7:06am
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Ok guys- the rolls that you use look like the ones in a line sideways- DUH! you can see that the forth one in from the back has some TP missing, the others are in a steel frame so they appear to be decorative only and would NOT FALL.

the tubes are fiberoptics around the mirror KTG so yes they are clear

i like the steel prison toilet and the reflection of the wallpaper on the opposite wall in the mirror.

posted by grb on June 19th 2008 at 7:41am
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Nice to see a diversity of opinions!
Here's mine: this is ugly.

Cheers!

posted by lightspeed on June 19th 2008 at 9:45am
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I hope, HOPE, there's a sheet of glass or plexiglass or something on the side of that thing by the toilet. In the very least. Otherwise one incident of bad aim, or even just routine minor splattering, would leave so much TP soiled.

Gross. Really kind of gross.

posted by Hoyt Clagwell on June 19th 2008 at 10:38am
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This is sculpture?
To borrow a phrase, this is so fugly I wouldn't wipe my *** with it.

posted by superflyguy on June 19th 2008 at 11:00am
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grb - I meant the cardboard tubes in the toilet paper. Maybe it's a true partition/barrier, but then how do you get the TP if you're on the wrong side... or does everyone just change it ahead of time, foreseeing the inevitable.

? Is that toilet steel?

You know why some people just have to be different, well, they deserve to be.

posted by K T G on June 19th 2008 at 11:18am
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That's an eternity of ass-wipin'! Way too much.

posted by GHB on June 19th 2008 at 4:27pm
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I think it may look cool because the space are filled with the toilet papers. Once you pull out a paper from the wall, it probably does
not look wall or partition at all.
(Or you might have another space to keep the extra papers so that the wall is always filled?)
Eventually, the top papers get dusty, and really bottom one may
catch some splashes from floor...
It does not work for me.

posted by redbonnie on June 19th 2008 at 4:39pm
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i like how lightspeed really shortened his 2nd comment. hehehe

posted by little flower on June 19th 2008 at 5:29pm
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OY - hoyt clagwell - eeewww grossly funny comment!! yikes i'm trying to get the image of splattering and soiling out of my head!!!
tis true though..

posted by little flower on June 19th 2008 at 5:32pm
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i can't relate to you germ-o-phobes & ocd's any better than you'll be able to relate to this: i'm a bit of a packrat, and absolutely hate the idea that something that has to be used each and every day doesn't have a perpetual quality (like air, i guess). i would do something like this in a new york minute.

posted by loislane on June 20th 2008 at 4:49am
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Well! This is certainly a better way to display extra TP than having a giant pyramid on the back of your toilet. (I buy @ Costco)

Seriously tho, I would have to leave the wrappers on for dust reasons. And that would ruin the aesthetic.

And come on! A rest stop/prision toilet in a Four Seasons residence? Resale value in the toilet!

posted by Heather C on June 20th 2008 at 8:39am
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