A Japanese toilet manufacturer has gone to the effort of making the world’s most valuable toilet in order to please the “god of lavatories”.
We can all thank the toilet maker INAX for teaming up with Austrian jeweller Swarovski so that they could make one of the world’s most expensive porcelain thrones. Recession? Not around here.
The toilet, which is housed behind a glass screen and armed security guards – presumably – features a whopping 72,000 Swarovski crystals which are studded all over the bowl.
Kazuo Sumimiya, director of the showroom for the Lixil interior fixture company, said it was created to please the “god of lavatories”.
“In Japan, we believe a deity exists in the lavatory. That’s why keeping lavatories clean and taking good care of it have been a Japanese custom since long ago,” he said.
“If we were to sell it, it would probably be worth around 10 million yen (€98,000).”
If you’re thinking of heading along to take a sneaky no.2 in the crystal encrusted crapper then you’d better hurry as it’s on display in a showroom in Tokyo’s posh Ginza shopping district, but only until the end of December.
As you’d expect, the toilet has shoppers in the posh Japanese shopping district absolutely amazed beyond belief with one woman even saying she’d like to invite her friends to hold a party around it.
Whatever you’re into.
