Waterstones Bathroom
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Price: £22.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The story of the modern bathroom is both one of grand feats of engineering and mass production, and of the unremarkable, mundane and repressed. The most private place in the home, the bathroom is where we perform the most intimate of our daily routines; it is also a space where we take refuge from the outside world. Yet the moment we turn on a tap or ?ush the toilet, the smallest room is hooked up to the largest of all infrastructural systems: a vast and complex network of pipes, pumps and treatment plants. Bathroom charts the evolution of the bathroom and the habits and lifestyles to which it gave rise. The book considers how and why the bathroom emerged and how it became an international symbol of key modern values - of cleanliness, order and progress. It explores how the modern bathroom, its technologies and its customs have been exported globally through colonialism, the media, fashion, world expositions and tourism, and the tensions this process has caused. It also discusses more user-friendly and low-tech alternatives, which are set to become ever more relevant in our environmentally conscious age. Abundantly illustrated, Bathroom examines examples from history and from across the globe. From squats to hi-tech bidet toilets, and from cast-iron bathtubs to monsoon showers, Bathroom is an original and eye-opening study of this significant but often overlooked space.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781780231938
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781780231938
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Author: Matt
Rating: 5
Review: Well written and informative. The reader will learn a lot. Hopefully the reader might also have a bit of a paradigm shift with this newfound awareness of the bathroom and its societal impacts.
Author: Matt
Rating: 5
Review: Well written and informative. The reader will learn a lot. Hopefully the reader might also have a bit of a paradigm shift with this newfound awareness of the bathroom and its societal impacts.
