A Master Bathroom Suite That Lives Up To Its Billing
November 12, 2014
According to architect Mark English, the design of the bathroom suite on the third level of the Glen Park home at 42 Chenery is all about “the bathing experience as an integral part of the private world of the bedroom,” enabling desires of “comfort, sensuality, theater and beauty” and inspiring contemplation. Check.
Technically a five-bedroom condo as it shares its parcel and yard with the home behind, the 4,200 square foot residence was remodeled in 2007, features a number of other artful design choices beyond the master suite above, and is now on the market and listed for $2.8 million.
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i’m sad they didn’t put the toilet out there! go big or go home.
also- i’m sure having water splatter everywhere, like across the room or on someone trying to get ready at the sink is meant to be a “feature”.
If no one ever lives there, they don’t need a toilet.
Someone is going to trip on that half-step or slip on that marble and crack their head open
Where do the loofa sponges, shampoo bottles and bars of soap go? The curved step? IS this a joke? Is someone putting us on?
And in case you don’t crack your head open on the dangerous half-step in the bathroom, the architect has conveniently given you another half step at the foot of the stairway where you are sure to fall. Where ever was the building inspector on this one?
Does this mark the height of the bubble?
That’s not even the best bathroom featured in the last 2 months. I’d rather have the one from the Dogpatch party pad.
Now that was a bathroom.
of porn movie caliber…err, so I’m told
porn movies have nice bathrooms?
I thought they were known for being cheap and tacky?
Some time in the near future a student at a small private liberal arts college is going to author a PhD dissertation on the psychosocial implication of grand flamboyant shower spaces. And the words “sensuality” and “theater” will be found in the text.
“inspiring personal contemplation” focused mostly, I assume, on the ease of adding a wall.
Milkshake of Despair,
That is funny. I have a cousin that may very well be ahead of you on this. So ‘heady’.
I like the many outdoor spaces. A couple jarring choices (bathroom scroll work and the banister on the lower stairs… very odd.
All it needs is a stripper pole.
This makes me anxious.
The new owners should enclose the bath and use the new wall for some art and a television.
Where is the “theater lighting”? You know… so the bedroom portion can really watch the show.
At last a kitchen you can dance in, a kitchen without a center island and its knee-knocking breakfast bar.
Funny enough, there is a whole piece on exhibitionist bathrooms in the Manhattan $40M-condo space in today’s Times (name link).
If they really planned this, the marble floor will gently slope towards the carpeted bedroom….
Um, no.
This is a joke, right?
You poor uptight little children… Who cares what you think? No one wants to see you nude anyway.
Trolls don’t look good naked.
^ as the architect, you’re not doing yourself or your business any favors by calling everyone a troll. Model or Troll, bathrooms are private spaces for a reason. A rope thrown onto the floor doesn’t constitute good design sense. Beautiful tiles are used with constraint to showcase their beauty. Noone here is uptight for needing privacy where privacy is called for. Having a bathroom that is not functional is not practical.
A bathroom is a private realm that belongs to the owner of the home- the wishes and desires of the public at large don’t matter at all.
Completely agree. And if the owners/architects/whomever came up with this travesty love it, more power to them. Everyone else with taste or any idea of functionality will immediately remodel.
I rather like it. Takes me back to fond memories of the YMCA and junior high locker room. For “exhibitionism in delight of libertines is no vice,” to conjoin a phrase.
And putting a bed in a locker room or spa, where most would have a massage table, well, that’s architecturing.
all thats missing is Bette Midler singing in a towel and we’re all set
Even Magic Mike can’t salvage this slip and fall nightmare. A proper showcase shower would be all glass with automatic blinds in between the glass for those “not show ready” moments.
Double yuck. The key to a happy marriage is separate bathrooms.
I read the article in NY about the uber rich having see two toilets facing each other. Wow, I thought I’ve imagined everything but apparently I’ve been outdone. Kudos to those who have the bravado to make my nightmare about being in a completely open stall into reality. I hope our paths meet in the future.
nauseating writing ^
UPDATE: Glen Park Home With Bathroom “Stage” Sells For $2.5M.