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Copper urinal handcrafted by Mountains Edge Copperart Inc.

In 2007, I was asked to take on the task of building of a rustic copper urinal for a interior design project of Joanner Boucher’s and Island Enterprises of St. Joseph Island, Ontario.

The project required the intensive raising/hammering of 2 copper bowls.   Fitting those bowls together to create the shape seen here in the photos.  The bowls had lengths of copper pipe welded to the curves to offer protection against the raw copper edges and to act as a lip to keep liquids inside the urinal.

The patina was left natural as the client wanted the urinal to take on its own natural patina. Given that urine was used by Japanese patina masters to offer various grades of green patinas.  I have also read that some of these patinas were aged a number of years, stored in bottles and different diets affected the coloring process.

Another photo of the copper urinal