Bathrooms: Simply Add Water

World-famous and bestselling design expert Terence Conran provides a comprehensive guide to creating or revamping a bathroom, along with a discussion of this small room's expanding role as the ultimate refuge from the stresses of everyday life. He offers a full range of options for planning, design, and decoration, along with plenty of inspiration and advice on how to integrate the many practical, decorative, structural, and technological elements needed to create a bathing sanctuary. Such crucial issues as waterproofing, heating, and lighting receive in-depth attention, and there's also a detailed guide to fittings and fixtures, all well-illustrated. Large and lush photographs throughout featuring everything from bathroom pods to lavish spas will feed the home decorator's imagination.

Terence Conran is one of the world's leading designers, furniture-makers, restaurateurs and retailers. He was the founder of the Habitat chain of stores, which brought good, modern design to the high street. In the 1990s, Terence Conran developed an impressive group of companies involved in design, retailing and restaurants. He is Chairman of Conran Holdings, the parent company of the retail and restaurant businesses, and also Chairman of Conran & Partners, his architecture and design practice. There are Conran Shops in London (Fulham Road, Conduit Street, Shad Thames and Marylebone High Street), New York, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Tokyo and Fukuoka. Terence Conran's books include The Essential House Book, Terence Conran on Design, The Essential Garden Book (co-written with Dan Pearson), Easy Living, Chef's Garden, Terence Conran on Restaurants, Terence Conran on London, and Terence Conran on Small Spaces.