{"product_id":"the-secrets-of-finnish-sauna-design","title":"The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design","description":"A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna Design, Second Edition\nFor Builders of Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment Saunas\nThe only sauna book featured on Amazon’s top rated books on Architecture - Methods and Materials\nAre 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!\nNew 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.\nThis 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?\nThe 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’.\nAuthor 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!\nWhat Readers Say\nI strongly encourage everyone [...] to read Lassi Liikkanen’s Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design – the book that I really wish existed when we built our sauna. If you find any disagreement between what’s here and what Lassi says, then Lassi’s book and website is the safer path. I also highly recommend Lassi as a consultant.\nWalker Angell, author of Trumpkin’s Notes on Sauna, localmile.org\n\nFor 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.\nRosanna Cooney: Sweat House. The New \u0026amp; The Ancient Irish Sauna Tradition. Irelandia Press, 2025.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 168315164X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.168315164X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Liikkanen, Lassi A.|Muecke, Mikesch|polytekton\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have some markings or highlighting. Used copies may not include access codes or Cd's. Slight bending may be present.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56137824796977,"sku":"GBV.168315164X.G","price":41.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/168315164X-0.jpg?v=1788642170","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/the-secrets-of-finnish-sauna-design","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}