I love it. Following the recent post about a bossy blog reader’s unexpected encounter with a fancy bathroom in an Akron hotel, another Gentle Reader sent these pics. Susan writes:
“I was in St Paul Minnesota for a week on vacation, attended a Wodehouse Society conference [at the historic St. Paul Hotel].
“I needed a break during the meetings so slipped out of the talks, and headed to the women’s restroom. Mind you, this is the publically available first floor heavily used bathroom.
It was heavenly!! It was *so* clean, and cool, and restful, and calm. Everyone who came in there was raving about it. No paper towels or blowers, just real towels. All waiting for you, rolled up and in individual little wooden cubby holes…”
Susan loved the stage-like primping area, also, and said the benches were quite comfortable. I think the baroque-ness of it is crazy and kind of fabulous, especially that raised gilded mirror behind the parted curtains. (Mirror, mirror, on the…raised platform…)
The funny thing is that the whole scene kind of makes sense, considering Susan was attending a conference about P.G. Wodehouse. I happen to be in a house right now with a pretty impressive Wodehouse collection; I had to reach all of 10 inches to retrieve the book at right.
Thanks for the little lift, Susan!