Toto Bathroom Designs: Neorest SE & LE
18 June 2009
“Past the Prologue, Please”
If you are very interested—or very bored!—you can have a lot of fun with a dictionary from time to time, and today’s blog is very much a case in point. I don’t really know where the name Neorest came from, but I could not help noting the combining form “neo,” which means new, improved, or revised. An example would be neoclassicism, which actually means a revival of classical art, but it may not be too much of a stretch to define it as the “new old.” And if that flies, perhaps we can define Toto’s new bathroom collections, the Neorest SE & LE range of bathroom fixtures, as the “new rest,” which necessarily presupposes an “old rest,” but, truth, to tell, I don’t think most of us are getting much of any kind of rest these days.
Think about it. Those with jobs—a sadly shrinking figures these days—find themselves hammered from pillar to post for the most part, and especially this is true for those with children in school. Drive them here, coach them there, outfit them, feed them, encourage them, pray for them. Where is there time for a rest these days? Trust me, it wasn’t like that when I grew up. My parents pushed us out the door in time for school and collected us at the end of the day for dinner. So a bathroom in those days was a bathroom, no make that just a bathroom, because that’s all it was used for. Not so now.
Toto bills themselves as a company willing to “push at the boundaries of what is possible with the Neorest Series,” the better to “transform your bathroom into the ultimate healing space.” Truth to tell, my father would have scoffed at such a notion, but he didn’t contend with this modern world we’ve made for ourselves, a world in which the idea of rest is something, well, ancient. So, the idea of a rest from time to time really is new—make that neo, the Neorest.
What they have done is approach the idea of bathroom design with a sort of Eastern simplicity, using a neutral background of light wood and pale walls, the better to emphasize the greenery of plants and bamboo. More than that, they have used advanced technology, which they have subtly integrated into each piece of the flat, unobtrusive bathroom furniture. They’ve even added LED lighting to their washbasins, the better to add the tranquility of a relaxing glow in your bathroom.
Everything has been designed for your ultimate comfort. A hand-held shower is tucked into a sleek stainless steel compartment, and touchpad electronic panels operate the shower, bath and washbasin—all designed to sooth the jangled, smooth the ruffled. Because what we mostly have here is a bathroom design that truly is a design, a concept, a place, a haven, a retreat, a relaxation, a rest, that most of all, a rest. They say the past is prologue, but if your rest is history, maybe you need Neorest.
Joseph
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