Beskrivelse
INDHOLD: The story of Water. – Purifying Water. – Symbol of regeneration and renascience. – PUBLIC BATHS: The invention og the art of bathing in Greece. – Beneath the elegant cupolas of the Roman baths. – The gentle warmth of the medieval bathhouse. – Two hundred years without a bath. – The extraordinay Growth of public baths. – The new craze of swimming pools. The fascination of Oriental Baths in nineteenth-century London, Pris and New York. – From public baths to the public showers. – PRIVATE BATHS: The ancient model of the moderne bathroom. -Medieval Baths. – The decline of magnificent bathroom in the seventeenth Century. – The intimacy of the eighteenth-century cabinet de bains. – Baths, Washstands, petit indiscrets, Water Cans and Wahs basins. – English comfort. – Portable baths and baths delivery to the home. – The cabinet de toilette: Temple og femininity. – THE MODERN BATHROOM: The English bathroom. – Water, clean and tiled. The American high-tech bathroom.- From the need to keep clean to the pleasures of a comfortable bathroom. – The perfectly equipped moderne bathroom. – From art deco to the contemporary bathroom. – The sensual delight of the bath. – In the heat of the Hammam. – The pleasures of the Scandinavian Sauna. – Japanese baths. The ecstasies og the steaming hot bath. – The natural bathroom. Bathing as a lifestyle. – The virtues of thermal spas and balneoptherapy. – The poetry of the bath. – Chronology. – Bibliography. – Index.- Indbundet og med omslag. – Stort format. – Illustreret. – 208 sider. – Pænt eksemplar