Elite Choice » Paul Hernon http://elitechoice.org Best of the Breed: Luxury, Gadgets, Technology, Internet, Fashion, Estate & Auctions... Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:01:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Vertical Bathroom to Clear Space Crunch! http://elitechoice.org/2008/10/05/vertical-bathroom-to-clear-space-crunch/ http://elitechoice.org/2008/10/05/vertical-bathroom-to-clear-space-crunch/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:31:04 +0000 Shweta http://elitechoice.org/?p=8253 Vertical Bathroom
Bathing is a luxury in itself but if your cubby hole bathroom denies you to have a lavish wash, there is good news for you.Evidently inspired by the Swiss army penknife, the world’s first fold-up vertical bathroom is here to blow your minds away. Called the Vertebrae, it stacks a toilet, sink, water cistern and two showers into one 8ft-tall steel column. Award-winning designer Paul Hernon improvised The Vertebrae considering the space-conscious householders who struggle to fit a traditional shower, sink and toilet into their bathroom space.
Designed to utilize vertical space instead of horizontal floor space it is an intriguing but functional and simplistic space-saving bathroom by stacking the contents of a bathroom on top of one another. With two showers built-in, both of which rotate 180 degrees, one is for adults and one for children. Rest of the unit rotates a full 360 degrees twisting around a steel column which conceals the piping, and each part can simply be pushed out when required.

But be warned as the Vertebrae – named after the human spine – weighs 150 kilos and householders might have to reinforce their bathroom floor before fitting it. Expected to go on sale in the New Year with a price tag of £9,000($16,000), the feasible idea, though with the initial credit crunch, could be a hit.
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Via luxury launches , daily mail

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