TOTO Modular Home

For most Europeans, the typical bathroom experience is a quick and unceremonious one. However, in Japan it is a different story, with the culture of bathing involving much more ceremony. With its range of high-end bathroom furniture and fittings, Japanese bathroom specialist TOTO has aimed to represent this ritual. Showcased at Clerkenwell Design Week 2011, TOTO’s new Modular Home (MH) collection does just this and is the result of a collaboration between Japanese designer Masahiro Maruhashi and German designer Michael Stein.

Maruhashi and Stein describe the series as combining “German precision and Japanese technological expertise”. The range offers three flexible concepts, comprising a variety of furniture and storage elements, washbasins, a bathtub, a shower, taps, accessories, a toilet, bidet and two of TOTO’s signature washlets that can be integrated into any TOTO toilet at any time.

“The new collection offers extensive design options that reflect a cosmopolitan lifestyle,” explains TOTO’s creative director Masahiro Maruhashi. As with all TOTO products, each piece features top technical innovations that are seamlessly and invisibly integrated into the design.

The series is an understated one that uses ceramics and other high quality materials to create soft contours and forms. Clients can customise pieces to their wishes for a simple, clean finish light oak can be combined with white, or for a more contemporary look, there is a blend of dark teak and white. The collection is also extremely versatile, with the plumbing for the taps and washbasins concealed behind slightly shortened drawers, enabling them to be positioned wherever desired, without the need to move existing plumbing.

TOTO embraces the Japanese culture of bathing, where the activity is seen as a ritual that people invest time and care into. Since its European debut at ISH in 2009, TOTO seems to be rapidly winning over European consumers with its particularly Japanese product, the TOTO washlet, a toilet with an integrated bidet to offer exceptional hygiene and an extremely unique washing experience.

Related Links:
TOTO – company profile | company website

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