In the past, I've raved about Kontextur's Lifesavers-colored shower curtain rings, but that was just the beginning for this risk-taking home design line. The cutting-edge company recently teamed up with New York City-based Icelandic designer Hlynur Atlason to create a series of bath accessories. The VIKTOR toothbrush and razor holders pictured above, then, are the first installments in the collaborative series.
The VIKTOR holders are sturdy and hefty enough to withstand the weight of most toothbrushes — even though they're significantly smaller in size and their openings remarkably more shallow than those of traditional toothbrush holders. Each toothbrush/razor holder features a unique sculptural design — one is shaped like a concave cyilinder, with four angular prongs that create a star-like shape along the base; another features a square base with a perfectly circular opening positioned along the top; and yet another boasts an asymmetrical cylindrical shape, so that it almost looks like the entire thing was squeezed together, yielding a teardrop-like point on one end of its base and creating a bit of a slope along the top surface.
Not only are these toothbrush holders interesting from a design perspective, but they have several functional benefits. For one, they minimize bulk around the bathroom sink area (which tends to be quite overcrowded). Plus, since they're more compact both in terms of surface area covered and in terms of height, you don't have to worry about all the grime and muck that tends to gather in cup-shaped toothbrush holders. Now that's modernity at its best!
Each trio of toothbrush holders is available in 18k gold, black nickel and silver, so you can select the right scheme to fit your decor.
Kontextur VIKTOR Toothbrush Holders, $55 for 18k gold trio; $45 for black nickel trio; and $50 for real silver trio. Available at Kontextur.com
