Polyurethane bathroom mat
"Hella Jongerius' interest in plastics has led her to utilize a poly-urethane rubber, normally adpted by the metallurgical industry for making moulds, which lends itself with remarkable flexibility to artisan experiments. In her approach, it is not the form that is the subject of design: if anything, the form is a means enabling the material to disclose its inner nature. Thus, in the bathroom mat, the ninety semi-pheres that make up a superscale testurization emerge from flatness to capture like drops of water the surrounding light. They exercise an immediate and irresistable appeal to the foot, which receives unusual tactile sensation from the mat."
Link: JongeriusLab