Bathroom Holder

Both wells are carved from the one block, with a thin divider between them and the walls kept thin around them, so the stone is mostly hollow and the cube still reads as solid from outside. There is no base plate and no liner. Water that comes in with a wet brush runs to the floor of the well and dries there, because there is nowhere else for it to go and nothing in the way.

We chose this stone here because its veining, brown and gold branching across a dark green ground, is strong enough to read at the size of a fist, where a quieter marble would look like plastic, and on a cube every face shows a different piece of that pattern. The finish is honed, not polished, so the block does not shine under bathroom light and fingers leave no trace.

It sits beside the tap, on the side of the basin the right hand reaches first. Two brushes stand in one well and a tube in the other, and the stone is heavy enough that it never slides. A thing used twice a day for years should be the plainest thing in the room, and this one is.