"If You are Going To Do Something, Do It Well"

I guess was the thought behind this bathroom,

photographs © SFAP designed by X+Living, a Shanghai-based architecture firm, the bathroom is on the sixth floor of the Deji Plaza shopping mall in Nanjing, China, yes you read that correctly, shopping mall, it is a public bathroom!

the lounge area is complete with a sofa inspired by the petals of a flower where you can wait for your friends,

“A washroom in a shopping mall is a public space open to everyone. It accommodates people in their busy urban life and provides them a space to take a break or re-organize themselves,” designer Li Xiang said. “During the design process, I don’t particularly want to design it as a functional-only space, therefore, we suggested putting more emphasis on the design of the washroom, so as to reflect humanistic care in unexpected corners of the shopping mall. That’s why we came up with the concept of Sanctuary Garden.”

nowadays everything seems to be being cut back, but it appears that no expense has been spared in this, it has got to be the most luxurious public bathrooms in the world, unless you know of one better!