{"id":3021,"date":"2010-07-12T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2012-04-26T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:19:52","slug":"sebach-portable-toilet-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/expat-life\/sebach-portable-toilet-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a dump in a masterpiece: In Italy even the porta-potties are art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am a huge fan of these portapotties by Sebach<\/strong>. There&#8217;s one on  the highway between Firenze Sud and Firenze Certosa, but we are never  going slow enough to photograph it, and it&#8217;s partially blocked by the  divider. It has the Piero della Francesca portrait of the Duke of Urbino  on the side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3023\" title=\"sebach2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach2.jpg?resize=552%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach2.jpg?w=613&amp;ssl=1 613w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach2.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong>I randomly discovered these photos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasterpaia.it\/it\/portfolio\/advertising_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sterpaia<\/a> website, a creativity farm and communications company based near Pisa in Tuscany. The artistic <strong>&#8220;Dream Toilet&#8221;<\/strong> is designed by<strong> Lorenzo Pentassuglia and Cecilia Morassi<\/strong>, students of the faculty of Architecture in Trieste and winners of a world-wide contest that was put out by Sebach and Sterpaia for the perfect chemical toilet. The contest, held in 2007, had a 5000 euro prize. I&#8217;m sure that the client paid much more than this to Sterpaia.<\/p>\n<p>The slogan? Well, there isn&#8217;t one, but as a creative in advertising myself <strong>I suggest &#8220;Take a dump in a masterpiece&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the &#8220;Dream Toilet&#8221; got SOME press in Italian blogs, and none in English-language blogs, the related project &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=1075395198414\" target=\"_blank\">Flush the Fashion: Elegance in Toilet Paper<\/a>&#8221; received virtually no mentions despite the creativity of students from the Academia Italiana of Art, Fashion, and Design who created high fashion clothing out of toilet paper. Kinda puts a whole new twist on &#8220;toilet papering&#8221; a place or person.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o8_Kj-td1eQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3022\" title=\"sebach1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach1.jpg?resize=552%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach1.jpg?w=613&amp;ssl=1 613w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sebach1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of these portapotties by Sebach. 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