Porcelain Crime

by Minimal Studio × Geberit

Historically, the throne has symbolized power, authority, and presence. Porcelain Crime transfers that symbolism to an everyday object, transforming it into a monumental and provocative piece.

Minimal Studio introduces erosion, controlled destruction, and urban language onto the technical purity of Geberit, turning the sanitary fixture into a sculpture suspended between decadence and luxury.

Porcelain Crime is a sculptural intervention carried out on a sanitary fixture, transforming an everyday object of technical precision into a contemporary cult piece.

The proposal emerges from the collision of two seemingly opposing worlds: the industrial purity and functionality of Swiss engineering versus the raw aesthetic of urban vandalism, erosion, and visual decay.

Graffiti, damaged surfaces, perforations, and exposed materials coexist with the perfection of porcelain and the cold shine of steel, generating a constant tension between luxury and ruin, cleanliness and aggression, functional object and conceptual sculpture.

The piece abandons its condition as a concealed architectural element to become the absolute protagonist of the space. A contemporary totem that questions the relationship between design, power, desire, and the cult of the object.

“Look upon me with admiration and you shall see your master.”

This phrase acts as the manifesto of the work, symbolically transforming the sanitary fixture into a new contemporary throne. An arrogant, unsettling, and seductive presence that compels the viewer to reconsider the beauty of what normally goes unnoticed.

Porcelain Crime does not seek to decorate.
It seeks to provoke.

Project management and Design: Minimal Studio × Geberit
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