TOTO unveiled it’s new washlet showroom, Concept 190 in San Francisco – and we were there!
Billed as first experiential WASHLET studio in the world. Concept 190 will hold regularly scheduled public events throughout the year to highlight TOTO’s impressive fusion of innovation, high-design and technology. In addition to events, Concept 190 acts as an outlet to explore new avenues for developing TOTO’s bathroom of the future. Product research will be continually underway in the space to push innovation toward improving people’s daily lives.
Complementing TOTO’s innovative approach to product technology and design, Concept 190 also houses four private experiential concept bathrooms where visitors can “test drive” best-selling TOTO products NEOREST and WASHLET, the famed electronic bidet seat. With the use of moving art projections of iconic landscapes and sensors spread throughout the space, the immersive experience gives visitors the chance to try out some of the world’s most technologically advanced toilet systems currently on the market in a setting that is equally as innovative.
Concept 190 features intelligent toilets from NEOREST, TOTO’s suite of intuitive bathroom products, in addition to WASHLET, a multifunctional seat with state of the art features like a heated seat, personal cleansing system, and eco-friendly electrolyzed water spray. NEOREST 750H, TOTO’s best in class intelligent toilet, is armed with TOTO’s market-leading flushing and cleansing technologies that effectively keep the bowl clean for months at a time. WASHLET, with over 40 million units sold since the 1980 debut in Japan, is quickly becoming a staple for homes in the United States and is one of the experiences provided at Concept 190.
Concept 190 is located at 190 King Street in San Francisco. The space will open March 21st with an invite-only ribbon cutting ceremony and reception. One of the first events to take place at Concept 190 will be Japan’s wildly popular Real Escape Game, an escape game that uses sophisticated projection-mapping technology never before used in America. Game makers SCRAP have also designed a new game, Escape from the Bathroom, which will debut at Concept 190. In this 15-minute mini-game guests will be “trapped” in a makeshift bathroom stall and solve various clues related to WASHLET in order to escape.
