Please Be Seated is pleased to join Bathroom Blogfest 2010, a week-long, web-wide series of blog posts devoted to, yes, bathrooms. Here’s a description of the event from the Bathroom Blogfest website:
“… bloggers from around the globe write about the importance of bathrooms in the customer experience. Their posts come from a wide range of perspectives that include sociology, marketing, research, psychology, environmental, customer experience, and user-experience design. The event was initiated in 2006.”
Since restrooms are essential to comfort in most public spaces — indoor ones, anyway — we’re happy to join the discussion.
This year’s theme, inspired by Mad Men, is “Stuck in the Sixties,” the idea being that many public-space bathroom experiences have not been improved in half a century or longer. Not to be contrarian, but here is a 60s style women’s restroom that has been adapted to our own century quite nicely (photo by Beth):
This is on the ground floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in a lobby area that was renovated (I believe) in the 60s. This restroom has the virtues of a 60s modernist space – straightforward access to all stalls as soon as you open the door, sufficient space between the stalls and the sinks, no awkward angles – updated with contemporary 21st century fixtures. The adjacent men’s room has pretty much the same layout. As usual, the Met does things right.
Please visit the entire roster of Bathroom Blogfest blogs:
Blogger | Blog Name | Blog URL |
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Susan Abbott | Customer Experience Crossroads | http://www.customercrossroads.com/customercrossroads/ |
Paul Anater | Kitchen and Residential Design | http://www.KitchenAndResidentialDesign.com |
Shannon Bilby | Big Bob’s Outlet | http://blog.bigbobsoutlet.com/ |
Shannon Bilby | Carpets N More Blog | http://blog.carpetsnmore.com/ |
Shannon Bilby | Dolphin Carpet Blog | http://blog.dolphincarpet.com/ |
Shannon Bilby | From The Floors Up | http://fromthefloorsup.com/ |
Shannon Bilby | My Big Bob’s Blog | http://blog.mybigbobs.com/ |
Toby Bloomberg | Diva Marketing | http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloomberg_marketing/ |
Laurence Borel | Blog Till You Drop | http://www.laurenceborel.com/ |
Bill Buyok | Avente Tile Talk Blog | http://tiletalk.blogspot.com/ |
Jeanne Byington | The Importance of Earnest Service | http://blog.jmbyington.com/ |
Becky Carroll | Customers Rock! | http://customersrock.net/ |
Marianna Chapman | Results Revolution | http://www.resultsrevolution.com |
Katie Clark | Practial Katie | http://practicalkatie.blogspot.com/ |
Nora DePalma | American Standard’s Professor Toilet | http://www.professortoilet.com/ |
Nora DePalma | O’Reilly DePalma: The Blog | http://www.oreilly-depalma.com/blog/ |
Leigh Durst | LivePath Experience Architect Weblog | http://livepath.blogspot.com/ |
Valerie Fritz | The AwarepointBlog | http://www.awarepointblog.com/ |
Iris Garrott | Checking In and Checking Out | http://circulating.wordpress.com/ |
Tish Grier | The Constant Observer | http://spap-oop.blogspot.com |
Renee LeCroy | Your Fifth Wall | http://yourfifthwall.com/ |
Joseph Michelli | Dr. Joseph Michelli’s Blog | http://www.josephmichelli.com/blog |
Veronika Miller | Modenus Blog | http://www.modenus.com/blog |
Arpi Nalbandian | TILE Magazine Editor Blog | http://www.tilemagonline.com/Articles/Blog_Nalbandian |
Maria Palma | People 2 People Service | http://www.people2peopleservice.com/ |
Reshma Bachwani Paritosh | The Qualitative Research Blog | http://www.onqualitativeresearch.blogspot.com/ |
David Polinchock | Polinchock’s Ponderings | http://blog.polinchock.com/ |
Victoria Redshaw & Shelley Pond | Scarlet Opus Trends Blog | http://trendsblog.co.uk/ |
David Reich | My 2 Cents | http://reichcomm.typepad.com/my_weblog/ |
Sandy Renshaw | Around Des Moines | http://www.arounddesmoines.com/ |
Sandy Renshaw | Purple Wren | http://www.purplewren.com/ |
Bethany Richmond | Carpet and Rug Institute Blog | http://www.carpet-and-rug-institute-blog.com/ |
Bruce Sanders | RIMtailing Blog | http://rimtailing.blogspot.com/ |
Steve Tokar | Please Be Seated | https://stevetokar.wordpress.com/ |
Carolyn Townes | Becoming a Woman of Purpose | http://spiritwomen.blogspot.com/ |
Stephanie Weaver | Experienceology | http://experienceology.blogspot.com/ |
Christine B. Whittemore | Flooring The Consumer | http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com/ |
Christine B. Whittemore | Simple Marketing Blog | http://www.simplemarketingblog.com/ |
Christine & Ted Whittemore | Smoke Rise & Kinnelon Blog | http://smokerise-nj.blogspot.com/ |
Christine B. Whittemore | The Carpetology Blog | http://carpetology.blogspot.com/ |
Linda Wright | LindaLoo Build Business With Better Bathrooms | http://lindaloo.com/ |
Tags: Bathroom Blogfest 2010, Metropolitan Museum, museum comfort, restrooms, Visitor comfort
October 25, 2010 at 4:10 pm |
Steve,
What a terrific example of a successful public space bathroom. The Met is timeless — including its bathrooms.
Thanks for being part of the 2010 Bathroom Blogfest!
Best,
CB
October 27, 2010 at 1:30 am |
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