Heritage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee has a cause to be aflush with pride. It won, after all — the 2008 America’s Best Restroom Award and it ain’t nothin’ to piss at! Art Deco-themed and featuring leaded-glass tiles, authentic terrazzo floors, and a shoeshine station, it is a favorite of thousands of local ladies and visitors a year. Sometimes, when you don’t really gotta go — you still go.
The none too shabby runner up hails from my hometown, Louisville, Kentucky and lives at 21c Museum Hotel, a 91-room first of its kind hotel dedicated to world-class luxuries, Southern-style hospitality and contemporary art from living artists. The hotel features a 9,000 square foot contemporary art museum funded and managed by the International Contemporary Art Foundation. In keeping with the hotel itself, the men’s bathroom features one-way mirrors facing urinals and futuristic LCD screens with traveling images of eyes built into mirror above the sinks. Far out!
Both # 3 and # 4 come from Illinois, Rockford’s upstaging its more metropolitan neighbor Chicago.
Brio’s restrooms at Rockford are best enjoyed by the hermaphrodites among us. Heaven-themed for women and Hell- for men, they use a variety of materials and mood lighting for quite a psychedelic effect. Obviously, they are best appreciated as a pair, but I am not sure casual onlookers of the opposite gender are entirely welcome. Then again, what do I know?
Overlooking Chicago’s famous skyline, Signature Room at the 95th has its famous views extending to its bathroom. The gorgeous custom woodwork reminescent of the log cabin style, silver accents, and black and white photos from the 1930′s finish the job propelling it to its lofty #4 slot.
And rounding off the top 5 is the hand-painted water-themed refuge that truly gives a meaning to the word “restroom”. Inspired by John Michael Kohlers Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, this functional beauty gracing the newly expanded Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts features etched glass panels portraying exotic sea creatures and plant life in delicate grays, blues, blacks, and whites.
Not your slovenly Uncle Ben’s johns, are these? So, yeah, gotta get my mind out of the gutter!
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