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Undesigning the Bath

by Leonard Koren
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Overview

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, Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren, who was trained as an artist and architect, writes books about design and aesthetics. Among his most popular books are WABI SABI: For Artists, Design, Poets & Philosophers and Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement.

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Sees bathing as a metaphor for an existence in harmony with the currents of nature.

Book Details

Published
October 17, 1998
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781880656242

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