America is a sculpture created in 2016 by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. An example of satirical participatory art, it is a fully functioning toilet made of 18-karat solid gold.
It is a golden version of the kind of toilet you might find in a public school or airport. The use of gold satirizes not just American values but references a long discourse about the vanity of wealth, the belief of rich people that everything they do is transmogrified by money.
Yep, built in 2001 at Hang Fung Gold Technology in Hong Kong, this toilet is made of 24 carat solid gold.
To be clear, these toilets are not made of actual gold—they are gold-plated ceramic and typically cost about $2,000. If you are really committed to a golden commode, you can buy one with a thin 18-karat gold layer starting at about $30,000.
Do you know what the most expensive toilet on Earth is? It's the Shrine to Lenin, a solid 24K gold toilet commissioned by Chinese jewelry dealer Winger Lam in 2002 and worth roughly $4 million USD.
But the city has another gold standard loo-related achievement, Hong Kong holds the Guinness World Record for the most expensive toilet bowl, a golden creation worth HK$27 million (US$3.5 million).
Currently, the costliest toilet ever assembled is sitting high in the International Space Station. In 2020, NASA launched a $23 million commode into space to test out its functionality on the ISS.
The Crawley Edge Boat Shed now has a solar-powered toilet.
A US$6 million gold toilet that was offered to Donald Trump was stolen from Britain's Blenheim Palace.
But there is one luxury the young Winston did not have the pleasure of experiencing: an 18-karat gold toilet in the water closet next to his childhood bedroom.
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Golden toilet as a wedding gift
Bizzaro alert! Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah gifted a golden toilet on his daughters wedding. The toilet was completely fitted with gold furnishings including this golden commode and the golden bidet in the background.
White is by far the most common color for toilets found in residential bathrooms. However, the best toilets for your home don't have to be white toilets. They should match your personal style.
14, a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat gold was stolen from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. There has been no trace of it since.
This is a Love Seat Toilet designed for two people to used together. The design is in a form of two attached piggy in order to make some fun to the most personal moment and make it less embarrassing. The user have to sit back to back to each other, this setting suggested that: you are very important to your loved one!
Spector offered up what one might call a “participatory sculpture”: a fully functional, solid 18-karat-gold copy of a Kohler toilet titled “America” that more than 100,000 people had already used in a museum restroom.
The Numi 2.0 smart toilet from US manufacturer Kohler can also play music, news and weather reports, and features a bidet, a seat-warmer, personalized dryer functions and a self-cleaning feature that uses UV light to kill bacteria and germs. "You'll never leave the lid up again.
A Japanese toilet or smart toilet, as it's often referred to, is a toilet built with smart technology. Put simply, this means smart toilets can interact with their user via remote control access. With a press of the button, you can flush, spray and dry. As the name suggests, Japanese toilets originated in Japan.
A pay toilet is a public toilet that requires the user to pay. It may be street furniture or be inside a building, e.g. a shopping mall, department store, or railway station. The reason for charging money is usually for the maintenance of the equipment.
Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet.
The Hang Fung Gold Technology Group owns claim to the most expensive toilet in the world. Rumored to be worth around $5 million (depending on the current price of gold), this golden beauty is housed in a bathroom made entirely out of gold.
Chinese-Style Toilets
Chinese toilets are normally squat style, which admittedly take some getting used to. However, comfort yourself in the knowledge that using a squat toilet means you don't touch anything and you don't have to cover the toilet seat with paper before you can sit down.
Buy This $100,000, Functional Louis Vuitton Toilet
Things took a turn for the dadaist when Gore churned out the gallery's magnum opus: a fully-functional golden toilet, covered in $15,000 worth of Louis Vuitton leathers, on sale only for a measly $100,000.