This toilet tickled my fancy, and seemed to echo a trend I've been seeing in toilets recently. Namely, why not cover the walls with something whimsical and distracting, perhaps even over-stimulating? That way, you achieve an attractive though possibly divisive decorative statement. This design, apparently pulled from old 50s/60s magazine advertisements, are particularly a l'epoque given the recent darling obsession with this era (a la Mad Men, and so on). As a decorative choice, furthermore, it distracts from the standard furnishings necessary to make this space a toilet. Looking around this bathroom, it's almost difficult to pick out the toilet, standard support bar, sink and paper towel dispenser. It's almost to say that these furnishings are too unspeakable to be accented, so let's draw the eye away from them by means of amusing and in this case, saucy wall paper. Hooray, what a delightful exaggerated statement of our implicit feelings towards the bathroom.
As a thought experiment, what if these decorators had papered EVERYTHING in the bathroom? Now wouldn't that have been interesting.
Also. There is an interesting flavor of social commentary that occurs when we introduce sexually provocative imagery in the very space sanctioned for crapping. It's a sort of sordid confusion of acts all associated with the body that brings to mind a very puritanical sense of shame that we ascribe both to crapping and shagging. Lovely.
I greatly enjoyed this toilet, not least because I sort of felt like I was watching TV, or engaging in some other escapist media while performing a routine behavior. It was sort of strangely luxurious. Oooh la la.
