Janus Thinking

Having recently spotted a diamond-encrusted skull (Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God) and a diamond-encrusted Mercedes-Benz (with diamond-encrusted gear shift), this Swarovski crystal-encrusted toilet seems almost common. Almost.

With 50,000 hand-set crystals, it’s one way to bring a little (rather a lot of) sparkle and shine into your bathroom. But the creation, from Jemal Wright’s Isis Collection, “only” costs $75,000. It isn’t as though this thing is covered with diamonds. But what if it were?

Recently Rapaport held an auction of certified diamonds, with prices per diamond ranging from under $4,000 to $12,000. If we to cover such a commode with 50,000 diamonds costing an average of $6,000, we’d have a toilet costing $300 million in diamonds alone. Damien Hirst’s skull only sold (reportedly) for $100 million.

If ‘For the Love of God’ juxtaposes mortality and eternity, what would a diamond-encrusted toilet mean?

[via Born Rich via This Old House]