You 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.
You 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
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.
view lightspeed's profile
I think it's brilliant.
view Comicgeek's profile
I like it!
view clemoni's profile
geez lightspeed......lighten up.
yes, it's silly but the bathroom is so severe that you need something like this "sculpture" to soften it.
view kahlil19107's profile
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.
view Marco's profile
Clever idea. But one missing roll would drive me crazy.
view BillyRes's profile
That is a great idea.
view mva1201's profile
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?
view fraise's profile
BillyRes my same thoughts I would constantly be buying tp to keep it full at all times.
view LoriSF's profile
Hopefully they don't have any cats living there who would trail all the rolls across the place!
view mmepatty's profile
Holy Shit. :-)
view Bryan Hale's profile
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
view little flower's profile
fraise, what if you filled it up with seventh generation toilet paper instead?
view little flower's profile
You can see through the tubes.
view K T G's profile
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..
view little flower's profile
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.
view grb's profile
Nice to see a diversity of opinions!
Here's mine: this is ugly.
Cheers!
view lightspeed's profile
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.
view Hoyt Clagwell's profile
This is sculpture?
To borrow a phrase, this is so fugly I wouldn't wipe my *** with it.
view superflyguy's profile
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.
view K T G's profile
That's an eternity of ass-wipin'! Way too much.
view GHB's profile
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.
view redbonnie's profile
i like how lightspeed really shortened his 2nd comment. hehehe
view little flower's profile
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..
view little flower's profile
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.
view loislane's profile
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!
view Heather C's profile