Barbara saw this Kohler ad by San Francisco photographer Mark Holthusen and was struck by the odd juxtaposition of elegant woman and toilet. My immediate reaction was: Isn’t that Portland’s Union Station tower Photoshopped into the background? And isn’t a $4,400 toilet with “integrated bowl lighting” an appropriate item to be named the Fountainhead and sold by an idealized version of Ayn Rand?
HISTORICAL NOTE: Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara was the one who unmasked the use of Barbur Boulevard’s Capitol Hill Motel in a photo illustration accompanying a SPY Magazine article about philandering congressmen.