Graphis
"Sees bathing as a metaphor for an existence in harmony with the currents of nature."
Review
"Sees bathing as a metaphor for an existence in harmony with the currents of nature." -Graphis
Book Description
Why are most designers (architectural, interior, or industrial) incapable of creating deeply satisfying bathing environments? Because the key metaphors of design--efficiency, slick modernity, overwhelming visual appeal--are antagonistic to a profound bathing experience. Extraordinary baths instead are complex and distinctly elemental--earthy, sensual, and animistic. They are created by natural geological processes or by composers of sensory arousal working in an intuitive, poetic, open-minded--undesign--manner.
About the author
Trained as an artist and architect, Leonard Koren has written numerous books on aesthetics and design. He developed an abiding interest in bathing environments while pursuing his master's degree in architecture at UCLA. Disinclined to pursue a conventional architectural career, Koren instead created WET: the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the premier avant-garde publications of the 1970's. Since then Koren has produced numerous books, including Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, an elucidation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
