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...WALL of a bathroom in the Coop, someone has written "STRETCHING NEURONS, LEON"; the producers of Harvard Square were pleased to find out about it. It just goes to show that people have been following WBUR's "continuing drama" radio program closely enough to pick up on the catch-phrase ("stretching neurons!") of one of the show's characters (a drug culture sensualist named Leon). If people write about you on bathroom walls, you know you've made...
...American bathroom, ever a target for European wits and soreheads, has a host of enthusiasts as well; none is more outspoken than Critic Edmund Wilson, who once said: "I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions ... in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral." That sort of affection seems to run in the family. Mary McCarthy, who was wed to Wilson for eight years, has hailed the bathroom half-ironically as the "last fortress of the individual, the poor man's club, the working girl's temple...
Like Fairyland. Designers such as Sherle Wagner of Manhattan and David Hicks of London stand ready to transform an ordinary bathroom into a soapy nirvana. "Today's bathroom," says Wagner, "is an escape area from these times of tension. It has become a spa at home." Most of Wagner's customers spend between $250 and $2,500 to renovate and redecorate their bathrooms, and the emphasis is on the higher end of that scale. "You can do a very very beautiful bathroom for $2,500," says Wagner. One customer has ordered a carved marble tub measuring...
Hicks, whose book, David Hicks on Bathrooms, is a basic text on the subject, believes that bathrooms should be "elegant and practical." His idea of simplicity is reflected in his designs for the small bathroom of Mrs. Harilaos ("Betsy") Theodoracopulos. He specified mirrors on walls and ceilings to "stretch the room out and at the same time heighten it." For surfaces, he used scrubbed stone "because of its rough, aggressive element which contrasts with the smoothness of the mirror." Many of the wall mirrors conceal storage closets. To Mrs. Theodoracopulos, the bathroom is "like fairyland...
...Charles Revson, whose husband heads the Revlon cosmetics empire, space was not a problem: the bathroom in her Manhattan apartment is 23 feet by 19 feet. All fixtures are made of creamy Italian marble and there are two sun lamps. Mrs. Revson spends a lot of time there. "I am a compulsive bather," she says. "I take three baths a day-one in the morning, one at 5 p.m. and one later if I've gone out, regardless of the time...