Ultimate Bath
Regular price
€55.99
In The Perfect Bath, Barbara Sallick who with her now-legendary company Waterworks brought the American bathroom out of the dark ages and reinvented it as a stylish, nurturing environment suited to a modern way of life showed her readers, step by step, how to transform a once-utilitarian afterthought of a room into the most personal, indeed special, space in the home. With Ultimate Baths, Barbara is ready to take the next step to elevate the idea of the bath as fantasy come true to an unprecedented new level. Starting from the idea that taking the time and space to enjoy special moments and extraordinary circumstances is not only pleasurable but essential, Ultimate Baths will devote its elegantly illustrated chapters to the crafting of experiences: the soothing, pampering spa; the sybaritic secret garden of percolating pools and rain showers; the restorative wellness retreat; and the bath as integral part of the larger home reaching out into the personal, and in some cases public, living and entertaining zones, the home s larger context, and into the world beyond. Ultimate Baths will build on its predecessor s inclusion of a range of top professionals work including work from a dream team of architects and designers, each of them singular, imaginative, and eminently achievable. The ultimate experience. The ultimate expression of style. The ultimate guide to crafting a peerless, enduring personal retreat. The Ultimate Bath offers all of this, and more.
Barbara Sallick co-founded Waterworks-the premier luxury brand of kitchen and bath fittings, fixtures, furniture and accessories-with her husband in 1978 and serves as the company's senior vice president of design. As the arbiter of Waterworks' influential design aesthetic, Barbara oversees a range of creative product decisions. Acting as a company spokesperson, Barbara presents design and product lectures at top architecture and design firms across the country. She writes a popular weekly blog that offers design ideas and inspiration and is also the author of Waterworks: Inventing Bath Style (2001) and The Perfect Bath. She is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and is a trustee of Wheelock College, where she received her B.A. She attended graduate school at Columbia University, and was an associate, under Charles Montgomery, at the department of American Decorative Arts at Yale University Art Gallery.