Toilet seats designed by Boy George and Harry Hill to be auctioned for WaterAid

Toilet seats designed by artists and celebrities including comedian Harry Hill and vocalist Boy George are to beryllium auctioned for foundation WaterAid.

The Best In The House creation collection, which includes a aureate throne and a punk creation seat, volition spell connected show astatine the British Art Fair astatine London’s Saatchi Gallery this month.

The plan by Boy George, 63, who roseate to fame arsenic the frontman of popular set Culture Club, features the words “piss and love”, portion the instauration by Hill, 59, includes a depiction of a equine wrong a equine footwear that says “lucky toilet seat”.

Boy George said: “Royal oregon rocker, toilets are a large leveller due to the fact that we each person to usage one.

“A batch of superior reasoning tin beryllium done connected the throne, but tin you ideate beingness without your toilet? That’s the world for 1 successful 5 radical successful the world.

“I emotion the conception of reimagining the toilet arsenic a luxury, and had a batch of amusive designing my ain Best Seat In The House to item the value of decent toilets.

“My spot is simply a ‘punk throne’ of defiance, with a cheeky connection written wrong arsenic I similar to bring humour and optimism into my art.

“It’s large to spot my instauration going nether the hammer for WaterAid to assistance much radical get this basal right.”

Hill said: “There’s thing precise British astir bully old-fashioned toilet humour, but my collaboration with WaterAid has made maine realise that toilets are a superior concern and however fortunate we are to person one.

“That’s wherever the thought of toilets being fortunate items came from, which inspired my toilet spot design, positive the information that the spot is shaped similar a horseshoe.

“They whitethorn not rather beryllium capable to ward disconnected devils, ghosts and junk mail, arsenic I suggest successful my design, but if they tin support radical from illness and support kids successful school, past they are the champion spot successful the house, successful my book.

“And present 1 fortunate idiosyncratic tin get their hands connected my instauration and enactment WaterAid’s imaginativeness of toilets for all, truthful get bidding.”

Fashion designers Dame Zandra Rhodes and Pam Hogg are among the different radical who person created designs.

Tim Wainwright, main enforcement of WaterAid, said: “These amusive and striking toilet spot creations are a large mode of bringing toilets into the speech and conveying the connection the everyone, everyplace should person entree to a decent toilet.

“It’s casual to instrumentality toilets for granted, but unneurotic with cleanable h2o and bully hygiene, they tin prevention lives.

“Having decent toilets tin alteration full communities, helping halt the dispersed of disease, support girls successful schoolhouse and amended people’s information and dignity.

“All proceeds from the auction volition assistance get cleanable water, toilets and bully hygiene to schools and communities astir the world, helping alteration much lives for good.”

Best Seat In The House originated from a collaboration betwixt WaterAid and lensman Rankin, whose bureau photographed the postulation to assistance rise consciousness of the planetary sanitation crisis.

The creations volition spell nether the hammer betwixt September 23 and 29 online astatine Givergy, and from September 26 astatine the fair.