Hella Jongerius Soft Washbowl

Hella Jongerius of JongeriusLab brings together unusual design and materials in this casually twisted soft washbowl. Though it looks like the product of an artistically inclined pizza tosser, the bowl is made of a polyurethane material warped into a stable (but asymmetrical) curvature. If you feel drawn to post-modernism, futurism, or just "Futurama," this yielding, remarkable piece of lavatory art may be for you. And, at $479, it happens to capture the spirit--and avoid the price--of filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld's favorite domesticated urinal, the $1,259 Kohler K-4915, featured in Esquire this month.

By: paul springer