The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design by Lassi Liikkanen
A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna Design, Second Edition For Builders of Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment Saunas The only sauna book featured on Amazon's top rated books on Architecture - Methods and Materials Are you planning a new sauna, renovating an old one, or just dreaming? Do yourself a favor. Save your sauna project and read this wonderfully illustrated book about the design of authentic Finnish saunas! New research has identified Finnish sauna bathing as a source of numerous health benefits. To enjoy these effects, one needs a proper Finnish sauna. This book presents the collective wisdom accumulated by Finnish sauna builders, designers, and researchers across centuries, enabling anyone, anywhere, to design a pleasant bath house for family and friend to enjoy. This book provides answers to three major questions: What is a Finnish sauna? What you should require from its design? How to design a Finnish sauna in detail? The book covers all aspects needed to design a functional, healthy, and delightful sauna, from heating and air quality to interior design. It instructs the reader how to master both tangible and intangible, visible and invisible elements of a sauna. The book puts a special emphasis on the sauna experience, living up to the belief that short-term satisfaction is the first step towards long-term health benefits. It features examples of contemporary Finnish sauna design and outlines why a true sauna experience is so much more than merely 'a hot room'. Author Dr. Lassi A Liikkanen (Aalto University) is a designer and scholar. The book is based on five years of intensive research and interviews of key Finnish sauna experts. For his sauna-focused website at Saunologia.fi, he has authored over two hundred articles. His academic accomplishments include nearly one hundred peer-reviewed papers, the latest of those around sauna bathing! For anyone interested in the nitty-gritty of sauna design, or considering building their own, The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design by Lassi A. Liikkanen is considered the modern bible on the subject. Rosanna Cooney: Sweat House. The New & The Ancient Irish Sauna Tradition. Irelandia Press, 2025.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781683151647 |
| ISBN 10 | 168315164X |
| Title | The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design |
| Author | Lassi Liikkanen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Culicidae Architectural Press |
| Year published | 2025-12-11 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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