New NZ Sofitel offer performances from a great height!
While the Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel, the Sofitel Melbourne and Sydney restaurant Forty One attract visitors from around the world who want to visit a loo with a spectacular view and from a great height, New Zealand’s newest hotel, the Sofitel Queenstown, is joining that prestigious list, not using height as it selling point, but with the most eye-opening male toilet of them all.
The second floor men’s toilet, which services the complex’s restaurants including Bezu and Fatz Cat, has been tastefully and aesthetically designed by the complex’s developers Cam Marsh and Mark Perriam of Perron, and Brett Taylor of Group CDA. It features six unique individual ‘stands’ manufactured by Three Sixty Limited in Auckland.
But it’s not the tasteful design or subtle lighting that has tongues wagging in the New Zealand resort town, it is the six-metre long backdrop of life-size photographs featuring local models in varying poses directly behind each of the six stands – each with a full view of the action. One has a tape measure out, one a pair of binoculars, another has a camera, a fourth is peering over her glasses and so the list goes on.
Queenstown photographer Sheena Haywood shot the images of models from local agency Ican, after Auckland model agencies turned down the job when they heard where the images were going to be placed. Sheena said “We had a lot of fun with the shoot, made all the better for the fact that there weren’t any men there when we did it.”
Apparently one visiting performer said that said it was a bit disconcerting to be ‘going about his business’ and to have so many pairs of eyes watching him, a bit like the Mona Lisa effect. Others have called it ‘hilarious’ or say it makes them feel like going to the gym.
Sofitel General Manager Mark Wilkinson said he was now under pressure from those of the female persuasion to decorate the neighbouring women’s toilets with something equally eye-catching.
Only in New Zealand!!
Report by The Mole
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