The bathroom : from hygiene to wellness /
"The bathroom is apt to be the most hopelessly ugly room in the house," wrote Ellen Abercrombie Conway in 1896. A century later, this intimate space has become one of the preferred terrains of design, where forms, materials, and everyday experiences are continually reinvented. Long regarde...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lausanne :
mudac editions Raddar,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "The bathroom is apt to be the most hopelessly ugly room in the house," wrote Ellen Abercrombie Conway in 1896. A century later, this intimate space has become one of the preferred terrains of design, where forms, materials, and everyday experiences are continually reinvented. Long regarded as a purely functional place - at times even a dangerous one - the bath has been transformed into a ritual of pleasure, and the bathroom into a genuine aesthetic manifesto. Behind he clean lines, reflective surfaces, and objects that inhabit this space, a social revolution is unfolding : norms of cleanliness, the spread of hygienism, and the democratisation of design once reserved for the elite. This book traces the history of a room that has journeyed form utilitarian ugliness to contemporary elegance, revealing how design has shaped our gestures, our ideals and our way of inhabiting intimacy. |
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| Item Description: | Text taken from a series of talks on habitat given by Jolanthe Kugler at mudac during October - December 2022 |
| Physical Description: | 121 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 2378965796 9782378965792 |