Designer Debuts $25,000 Brutalist Toilet Sculpture at Milan Design Week
• Designer Samuel Ross created an angular, asymmetrical smart toilet for Kohler reminiscent of brutalist architecture, set to debut at Milan design week.
• The $25,000 toilet has an orange epoxy resin shell with unique textured facets, presenting it as a "functional sculpture."
• Ross brought a fashion perspective to rethink traditional toilet shapes unchanged since the 1960s/1970s.
• The form was sketched by hand, then cast in custom epoxy molds around a porcelain bowl to enable its faceted shape.
• It will premiere in an installation at Milan design week before being sold largely to galleries, museums, and design-focused corporations.