MoreShowerSPACE

INVENTOR'S STORY Standing tall at 6'3", I felt cramped in my shower. It turns out I wasn't alone -- not in a Psycho kind of way -- but that millions of bathers of all shapes and sizes would love more shower space. I wanted to avoid the remodeling hassle, expense, tile damage and ecological wastefulness of a curved shower rod. So I wondered ... why not just curve the curtain away? But how? Gravity pulls shower curtains straight down. And the shower curtain effect brings it so close that it sticks to me! I had to invent a self-expanding shower curtain. My Eureka moment came while standing in the shower. Pleating! I quickly dried off and started cutting and folding sheets of plastic. But like an Origami puzzle, it was really hard! From my small studio in Manhattan's Lower East Side, I agonized over endless shapes, materials and designs. All failures! But I didn't give up. Eventually -- many years, actually -- I found the perfectly balanced shape. I folded and taped a prototype and ... it worked! The folds and simple force of gravity created a soft natural curve.