Tiles with Fallen Hair--Beautiful or Ugly?

Posted March 25th, 2008 by Aditi Simlai Tiwari

After a good shower lots of hair tends to get left behind on the bathroom floor...giving the bathroom floor a fallen-hair look. Not something that many people would find pretty.

But everything dirty or ugly does not have to be wiped clean, or hidden away. A young designer who is a BA in Ceramics and Glass from University of Art and Design, Helsinki has come up with a novel, innovative new approach.

Her aim is to portray the ugly in an aesthetic manner.

Saara KaatraSaara Kaatra has created a set of ceramic tiles for bathrooms, decorated with hair. She says that an aesthetic pattern is created from something that is usually regarded as ugly.

With these tiles the entire bathroom floor, something that all of us expect to find spotlessly clean, gets a pattern of fallen hair.

Call it gross, ugly, or weird; we have to agree that it is innovative. And the designer should be lauded for her aesthetic idea.

Aditi Simlai Tiwari
Innovative Fashions Writer
InventorSpot.com

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Comments

That's disgusting

Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Anonymous

I don't know why, but HAIR is one of the grossest things when it isn't where it is supposed to be. To deliberately put it on the tiles is creepy. What's next--a plastic remnant for the toilet? "Oh, how lovely....and it floats."

If you ask me, she didn't succeed in portraying the "ugly in an aesthetic manner"; she portrayed the ugly in an ugly manner and got an "F" in aesthetics.

Ha!

Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Anonymous

I'm part Finnish so I should be proud of this. I'm not sure if I am, though! However, you're right - it's definitely innovative!

Sorry

Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Samantha

That last comment was from me!

Samantha Marcelo
Invention History Writer
InventorSpot.com

To each his own, and Beauty

Submitted on March 26th, 2008 by Aditi Simlai Tiwari

To each his own, and Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder...I do find the idea innovative.

Aditi Simlai Tiwari
Innovative Fashions Writer
InventorSpot.com

WTF

Submitted on April 21st, 2008 by Anonymous

Um, who would really want this on their floor? I don't, that's for sure. I think it's really stupid and pointless.

Yeah thats a little wierd,

Submitted on April 26th, 2008 by Anonymous

Yeah thats a little wierd, but there are people who like that kind of stuff i guess, if you are one of them, keep on doing what you do, just dont leave your hair on my floors