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Undesigning
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A beautiful and insightful book for anyone interested in baths or bath making. 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. The author shows how 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. |
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| Other titles of interest
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren How To Take a Japanese Bath by Leonard Koren The Japanese Home Stylebook by Saburo Yamagata |
