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<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna DesignFor Builders of Rustic Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment Saunas</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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:</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What is a Finnish sauna?What you should require from its design?How to design a Finnish sauna in detail?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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'.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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!</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lassi Liikkanen knows good sauna design. He also knows how critical good design is to enjoying the authentic Finnish bathing experience. I enthusiastically support this effort to share his special knowledge and sauna wisdom with the world.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mikkel Aaland author of Sweat and host of the documentary series Perfect Sweat.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There is a sauna boom in North America. More and more people are finding the rejuvenating qualities of sauna bathing. For those who want to learn more of a fulfilling sauna design and the pieces that it consists of Lassi's book is a great information source. Reading this book will help you take the sauna to the next authentic level.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eero Kilpi Ph.D. President The North American Sauna Society</span></p>