The Spanish company Roca built a toilet that hides its own tank inside the bowl, won the Gold Delta at the ADI Awards 2024 for doing it, and nobody at the dinner party I attended last Saturday had anything to say about it. This strikes me as a civilizational problem.We will spend ninety minutes dissecting the new iPhone camera's ability to make our chins look slightly less like chins. We will argue ourselves hoarse about a streaming series we all secretly abandoned after episode two. But show someone a toilet reengineered from the inside out, a toilet representing decades of experience, and they nod politely. The way they nod when you explain what you do for work.The toilet in question is called Avant. According to Roca, it "integrates the cistern inside the bowl, out of sight," which "maximises available space and unifies aesthetics and practicality in the bathroom." Corporate-speak for: we finally removed that weird backpack your toilet has been wearing for 150 years.Consider how…
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