Some of those people will be quite heavy. Porcelain, as it turns out, aces at all three of these requirements. Most important to the user is that the toilet be an effective, ahem, waste remover.

The toilet is the latest outcome of an ongoing collaboration between Kohler and Ross's industrial design studio SR_A, following the release of the angular Formation 01 tap at Design Miami last year.

Some people like to install a wooden seat on their toilet for its warmth, but the Block goes further. Described by Woodio as the world's first bio-material toilet, it ditches porcelain in favor of ...

So I’d encourage the 1.28 toilet with siphon jet flush. In a wash-down toilet you take everything in the bowl. We take all the water and put it on top of that pond and push it through.

The band probably asked for a porcelain toilet because they were playing an outdoor festival and didn’t want to get stuck using port-a-potties all day. That might strike you as outrageous, but ...

The material used to make the ultra-slippery toilet bowl, though, can even stand up to sandpaper and remain just as slippery as it did before, which is a huge accomplishment.