I told you it was worth a blog of its own, didn’t I?
This is the ladies’ loo at The George hotel in Stamford. I was so stunned by its magnificence that I had to get my camera out and take a picture. I mean, you see these things in the movies, but how many of us actually get to use a facility like this? I can tell you, our en-suite bathroom is nothing like so grand, and I’m just not used to it.
Just so you know, the actual toilet cubicles were not in the standard clinical row, they were discreet white painted doors dotted about in ones and twos in little alcoves and corners. You really had to search for them, which would not be so good if you were in a hurry!
Anyway, when I showed the lovely T, she oohed and aahed, and then pronounced the mural on the left to be a rip-off of a Botticelli. She said even the gown the lady was wearing was copied directly from a painting of his called ‘Primavera‘. She knows her art, for sure!
It was only then that we noticed that the Venus on the other wall was holding a hairdryer. I guess that’s what’s known as artistic licence, but it’s probably a good thing Botticelli isn’t around to see it.
Not that he’d be allowed in, of course. Not being a lady, and all …
a lovely lovely place in all – both posts – seems like a charming day..sandy
How nice is that – like something from another world… I do like a ‘nice’loo!!!
Now that’s ladies room I would enjoy using – me being a person who usually waits until she gets home
Has to be one of the bests ladies rooms I’ve seen! And displays a sense of humor as well, funny – hopefully Botticelli has a sense of humor else he’d be spinning in his grave.
BTW the lady with the hair dryer looks to have just stepped from the shell…looks to be from ‘The Birth of Venus’, another one of Botticelli’s painting. The walls are a mix of his works. Very funny the way they pieced it all together.
The woman who looks as if she is holding or tipping the shell is the one from ‘Primavera’ as is the one strewing flowers from her dress on the other wall….
Jay, this is scary, you have me now analyzing the walls of a ladies room!
Now I wanna see the men’s room !
I knew that room the instant I saw the photo! Amazing isn’t it? And lovely hand creams, fresh white towels and beautifully scented soaps – I could spend whole days in there!
Wow, I wouldn’t mind a bathroom like that. I just wonder what the lady on the left is doing…
That’s one nice Can !!!!!
I think I’d be intimidated and would just try to hold it.
Excellent gaudy opulence! Who wouldn’t want to wee, I mean see that!
I’m back and have had a great time reading all your ‘back numbers’. I won’t comment on them as you probably won’t go back yourself any way. Oh dear! All those ‘backs’. It’s late and I’m tired so hope you’ll be kind to me! Must just say that’s the best ladies room I’ve ever seen. I bet it’s posher than the one in Buck House.
I was curious after reading about Brent Spiner so decided to try him. I managed to get the album and am now listening to it with great interest and pleasure. Thank you Jay.
What a great room! You can always tell what sort of a place you’re in by the loos.
Sandy – Thanks, it was a great day! And these toilets were a lovely surprise.
Kate – Let’s face it, for most of us, it IS another world!
Babs – No kidding! I hate using public toilets, but this one was fabulous! Spotlessly clean, too.
Sistertex – “Jay, this is scary, you have me now analyzing the walls of a ladies room!”
Haha! Now, there’s an achievement! LOL! I wondered about the lady tipping the shell, because she clearly isn’t from Botticelli’s ‘Venus Arising from the Waves’, and I didn’t recognise her.
Silverback – Interestingly, I asked OH what the men’s room was like and he said ‘exactly the same’. Yes, they have the pseudo Botticellis on the walls, too. Identical.
Now I feel cheated! Us ladies should have the Adonises and other half naked Greek gods, don’t you think?
JJ – Ah, yes, you’re quite local aren’t you, compared to most bloggers! It is lovely, and I always appreciate a place with nice soaps and towels.
Mara – Indeed yes .. one can only hope it’s something decorus, though I have my doubts!
Eric – It is a bit over the top though, isn’t it? Still, great fun to use a room like that.
JD – Nah .. you’d have to at least go into a cubicle, just to see them, and there you’d be – a lost cause!
Baino – Hahaha! Indeed yes! Wee yourself laughing, you mean, don’t you? LOL!
Granny – Lovely to see you back surfing!
I’m so glad you like Brent Spiner. I love those old standards anyway, so I was doubly intrigued, and I wasn’t disappointed!
Lola – How true that is! Sometimes the nicest looking places have horrible untended loos, don’t they?
Oh, is that cute– I think the quirky hairdryer Venus was a nice touch.
Ahahaha!
Artistic licence indeed! I don’t know how I’d feel about all those eyes on me…
Jenn – It is, isn’t it? It’s all rather splendid, overall, and then the details are amusing.
Maureen – Oh, it’s OK, they’re not looking at you in the actual cubicles, just the public area! LOL!
I almost wish I could move in. We’ve been getting rid of furniture and moving furniture and acquiring (second-hand family) furniture for about a week, and anything with such tasteful decor looks like a haven to me.
Ruth – We’re not moving furniture, but it looked like a haven to me, too! LOL!
I’ve always been told that the graffiti in ‘ladies’ rooms’ were always far more obscene than those in the ‘men’s’…
Not that there would have been any such graffiti in this posh Stamford boudoir-toilet, I’m sure…
Solitary Walker – No, no graffiti in there! LOL!
Some women can be complete tramps and this shows in the state of our public toilets as much as anywhere. Yes, there can be some fairly distasteful graffiti, for sure, but whether it’s worse than in men’s toilets, I can’t tell you, never having been in there!