Fancy a wash in the jungle?

The online Oxford English Dictionary defines the adjective ‘astonishing’ as having any of the following meanings:

1. Stunning, benumbing, paralysing

2. Stupefying, confounding, bewildering

3. Filling with wonder, surprising, wonderful

Images of a quite astonishing bathroom collection landed in our inbox this week. Which of the above definitions would you apply to Jungle Wash by French interior designer José Levy?

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Cut from rough blocks of emerald-green Guatemalan marble, where only the functional parts are polished, Levy has created an offbeat bathroom collection that, he says, is “a bit like washing in nature after a tropical rainfall”.

Shelving, a sink, a tap, a mirror, a foldaway stool and a toothbrush: a wild and offbeat shower; an oasis of freshness in the Amazon jungle. The collection manufactured by Italian marble specialist company UP Group.