Golden Thrones & Duct-Taped Bananas: Art's Lavish Bathroom Break

KEY POINTS

•Maurizio Cattelan's golden toilet sculpture 'America' sold for $12.1 million at Sotheby’s in 2025.
•The toilet weighs about 223 pounds of 18-karat gold and is fully flushable.
•Cattelan’s duct-taped banana named 'Comedian' was purchased for $6.2 million by crypto investor Justin Sun last year.
•The original gold toilet exhibited in 2016 at the Guggenheim was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019 and never recovered.

In the world of truly flushable luxury, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat gold toilet named 'America' sold for a staggering $12.1 million at Sotheby’s in 2025. Packed with about 223 pounds of solid gold, this throne isn’t just for sitting—it’s certified real gold and ready to flush. Meanwhile, Cattelan’s other legendary masterpiece, a duct-taped banana named ‘Comedian,’ fetched $6.2 million from crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who promised to eat it, no less. The original golden toilet installed at the Guggenheim in 2016 was public bathroom art history until it got stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019—still missing. Yes, human poop meets eye-watering price tags.

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When you need a throne that screams both 'wealth' and 'I might be constipated,' step right up to Cattelan’s $12.1 million golden toilet. Because why not turn bathroom breaks into epic art statements while we’re all still terrible drivers of our own lives?

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