After 18k gold toilet, here’s a lacquered luxury toilet seat

After 18k gold toilet, here’s a lacquered luxury toilet seat

Remember the 18 carat gold toilet seat exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum as an art installation? Well apparently the trend of luxury toilet seats is here to stay. Sakamoto, a Japanese company, has now created the ‘Bidocoro’— a bright red luxury toilet that comes painted in lacquer. Combining two words ‘bidet’ and ‘kokoro’—the latter meaning spirit or mind in Japanese, this extravagant toilet is currently being test marketed by the brand in a shop in Nikko, Japan’s popular tourist destination. The company also created a special, elaborate version that comes bedecked in gold dust, Swarovski crystals and of course, lacquerware art. This art-in-the-toilet version was unveiled at the annual Hotel and Restaurant Show in Tokyo last month. The toilets are priced between ¥330,000 and a ¥770,000, depending on the colors, patterns, and type of lacquer used. Sakamoro hopes to rope in luxury hotels and use tourists’ love for luxe to make their toilets popular.