Here’s quite an interesting combination of stainless steel basin with coloured resin top. There are more examples and a more detailed description here.

There’s no need to fret about it being a bit nippy in the grippy whilst taking a shower in the middle of January in some Liverpudlian slum-dwelling. I’ve found these stainless steel towel warmers:

Ooh, I remember some student digs I lived in where the bathroom had a broken window and the only heating we were allowed was the middle bar of a three-bar electric fire (not in the bathroom, mind). If you tried turning it up to full you might’ve got lucky and had ten minutes of corn-beef [...]

I quite like this if for no other reason than its innate simplicity. Obviously I’ll try to adapt it into a desk planter and Jasper will come up with a prototype stainless steel cheese dish. Can’t you just tell I’m as giddy as a kipper about returning on Monday?