Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:15:50 PM
Gold toilet tycoon dies suddenly
A jewellery tycoon famed for creating the world's most expensive toilet has died suddenly at his Hong Kong home, local media says.
Lam Sai-wing, 53, the creator of a $HK38 million ($A5.88 million) gold toilet listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was found dead on 27 Sep 2008 in his luxury apartment on Hong Kong's Bowen Road, the South China Morning Post reported today.
Thousands of people visit his company's showroom in Hong Kong every week to see the solid-gold toilet, which sits in a garish bathroom with gold fittings, including a gold toilet brush holder.
The self-made millionaire, who moved to Hong Kong from China aged 22, was inspired to build the toilet by his boyhood hero, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who said gold should be used to make toilets after the victory of socialism to remind people of capitalist waste.
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A jewellery tycoon famed for creating the world's most expensive toilet has died suddenly at his Hong Kong home, local media says.
Lam Sai-wing, 53, the creator of a $HK38 million ($A5.88 million) gold toilet listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was found dead on 27 Sep 2008 in his luxury apartment on Hong Kong's Bowen Road, the South China Morning Post reported today.
Thousands of people visit his company's showroom in Hong Kong every week to see the solid-gold toilet, which sits in a garish bathroom with gold fittings, including a gold toilet brush holder.
The self-made millionaire, who moved to Hong Kong from China aged 22, was inspired to build the toilet by his boyhood hero, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who said gold should be used to make toilets after the victory of socialism to remind people of capitalist waste.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=2&ContentID=99975
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