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(MS) - This year, as you prepare for holiday entertaining, make your list, check it twice, then impress your friends and family with your good taste by decorating your powder room with luxury fixtures inspired by the Zen gardens of Japan.
"In contrast to the geometrically arranged trees and rocks of a Western-style garden, the Zen Japanese garden traditionally creates a scenic composition that, as artlessly as possible, mimics nature. This simulated landscape captures nature's beauty with a heightened intensity," said Lenora Campos, spokesperson for TOTO USA, a full-line luxury-plumbing manufacturer. "Its allure lies in its subtle, highly sophisticated use of space. The Zen garden's aim is to arrange rocks, trees, shrubs or running water so as to suggest the sweep of a vast landscape within a finite area."
In the Zen Japanese garden style, from which TOTO's new Ryohan Suite takes its inspiration, rocks and sand form the main elements. The sea is symbolized not by water but by a layer of sand with furrows suggestive of its rippling movement, and waterfalls are represented by an arrangement of rocks. Examples of this style are the gardens of Ryoanji Temple and Daitokuji Temple, in Kyoto, Japan. TOTO's Ryohan (pronounced "yo AN") Suite incorporates the rippling pattern that wind makes on sand, which mimics the ripples that it creates on water.
Create a Statement
Destined to create a stunning design statement in your holiday bath or powder room, the sophisticated Ryohan Self-Rimming Lavatory measures 191/6 x 2917/32. Reminiscent of a sheltered mountain pool, its shallow Sana-Gloss glazed basin measures four inches in depth.
Self-Powered Faucet
Winner of the Chicago Athenaeum's GOOD DESIGN award, TOTO's NSF-certified Ryohan EcoPower is the first sensor faucet whose power source is completely self-sufficient. This gorgeous oil-rubbed bronze fitting generates its own electricity every time water spins its small internal turbine. Stored in a series of capacitors, this auto-generated electrical energy powers the faucet's operation. For periods of infrequent use, the Ryohan EcoPower Faucet's solid core manganese dioxide lithium battery serves as a back-up power source. With as few as five uses per day, the faucet's back-up battery life far exceeds that of most sensor faucets, which rely on disposable batteries (that need regular replacement) or require hardwiring to the home's electrical system (significantly increasing installation cost).
A Power and Water Miser
The Ryohan Faucet's smart-sensor technology uses an instantaneous pulse of infrared light to determine hands' presence before discharging water, which conserves power. It records its daily usage pattern for a full week; then, during periods of infrequent use, it automatically reduces its infrared pulse frequency to conserve electricity.
The sensor faucet conserves water, too. Its predetermined .17 gallons per cycle discharge per 10-second cycle easily exceeds the .25 gallons per minute federal standard for low-flow water consumption. However, because the average use-cycle is less than 10 seconds, Ryohan Faucet's estimated water discharge per user is closer to 0.1 gallons per cycle.
Making it virtually impossible to fool - even when standing in front of it, the faucet's sensor angles down into the lavatory basin. No water is discharged until hands are actually placed in the water stream's path, and the water flow stops almost immediately once the hands are removed.
This holiday season, your guests will enjoy the Ryohan Faucet's quick, effective rinse - the result of its aerated flow rate of a little more than one gallon per minute (twice that of most sensor faucets, which use only a .5 gpm aerator).
Sensible Solution
Replacing sensor faucet batteries costs both time and money and generates hazardous battery waste. However, with minimum use, the Ryohan EcoPower's patented back up battery will last up to 10 years without replacement.
Green and Clean this Holiday Season
The one-piece Ryohan toilet's skirted bowl is supported with a distinctive column adorned with the elegant furrowed sand detailing suggestive of the undulating seas that inspire the Zen Japanese gardens. These facets resonate in the tank's lid, creating a pleasing coherence to the overall design. This sense of harmony is further enhanced by the bowl's graceful curvilinear tank, which supports a generous lid that has been molded into a shelf, creating newfound space for tissues or holiday decorations.
The Ryohan toilet is Universal Height - TOTO's ergonomic, comfortable height design that facilitates rising from a sitting to standing position and makes this aesthetically pleasing one-piece toilet ADA-compliant.
The Ryohan toilet's inner beauty arises from TOTO's new 1.6 gallon per flush Double Cyclone Flush Engine. To raise the industry-wide bar on flush performance, the company's engineers reinvented the flush engine by marrying performance to maintenance. Upon the push-button initiation of the Ryohan's Double Cyclone flush, three actions occur nearly simultaneously. First, the primary nozzle - located at the back of the SanaGloss glazed bowl - fires a high-speed stream of water that scours the redesigned concave rim and initiates the water's cyclone action. Almost immediately, a second water nozzle - located behind the first - fires a second high-speed water jet around the SanaGloss-gazed bowl's concave rim, providing a second rim scour and 360-degrees of rim and bowl cleansing action. At the same time, the siphon jet, whose power has radically increased by dedicating more water to it, is initiated, and it harnesses the accelerating power of this rapidly rotating cyclone of waterfor unsurpassed waste removal. The third stage is a final rim scouring, which cleanses the rim a second time and restores the bowl's water surface. The Double Cyclone Flush Engine is also available on TOTO's Guinevere and Soirée toilets, which are elements in full-line luxury suites of the same name.
For more information on TOTO products, call (800) 350-8686 or visit www.TOTOUSA.com.
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