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...bathroom-that place of splash and gurgle, electric razor buzz and after-shave fragrance, that small citadel of privacy where one goes to doctor oneself, make faces in the mirror, or commit suicide-is undergoing a renaissance. Even the modest homeowner wants more of them; small houses, which moved up from a single bath to a bath and a half about ten years ago, are now being built with two and 2½ bathrooms, and bigger ones at that. And the rich are asking for and getting bathrooms with pool-type tubs, wall-to-wall carpeting, mirrored ceilings, arched canopies...
...result is a new breed of specialists in "customized" bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms are becoming a prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished...
...Little Horse. Expensive apartment houses are concentrating more and more on the bathroom as an index of how luxurious they are. San Francisco's brand-new building at 2555 Leavenworth Street has 24-carat gold-plated faucets and toilet bowls in eight of its apartments. The bathrooms in Fifth Avenue's newest co-op deluxe, 812 Fifth Avenue (apartment prices range from $48,600 to $200,900), have marble floors and walls, and in each of the shower stalls there is a special spout a few inches off the floor for pretesting the water with a tentative...
...Ashley) and Paul (Robert Redford) are newlyweds and their marriage is a six-day wonder. So is their apartment. This five-flight walk-up (six counting the outdoor stoop) in an East 40s Manhattan brownstone is a one-room void with annexes: a postage-stamp bedroom sans bed, a bathroom sans tub, a radiator that has chosen February not to work, and a skylight with a missing pane for snow that wants to come in out of the snow. As a proper young lawyer, Paul has qualms about the place, but he is still inclined to be playful...
...hours the square was quiet but mysterious goings-on continued elsewhere. The last event reported was the materialization of bathroom tissue on the walls of Comstock's dining hall...