{"product_id":"undesigning-the-bath","title":"Undesigning The Bath","description":"\u003cp\u003eOut Of Print Cult Classic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, was the founder and creative director of WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the seminal avant garde publications of the 1970s. Among Koren's other books are \"Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets \u0026amp; Philosophers\" and \"Arranging things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e112 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1st edition, published 1996\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStone Bridge Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6\" X 9\", Softcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"House of Flowers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54823441760535,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/9461\/0711\/files\/IMG-4455.png?v=1787852233","url":"https:\/\/hofnm.co\/products\/undesigning-the-bath","provider":"House of Flowers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}