The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design

<p><strong style=color: rgba(79 79 81 1)>A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna Design Second Edition</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(79 79 81 1)>For Builders of Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment Saunas</em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(79 79 81 1)>The only sauna book featured on Amazon's top rated books on Architecture - Methods and Materials</strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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!</p><p class=ql-align-justify>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. </p><p>This book provides answers to three major questions:</p><p></p><ul><li><ul><li>What is a Finnish sauna?</li><li>What you should require from its design?</li><li>How to design a Finnish sauna in detail? </li><li></li></ul></li></ul><p class=ql-align-justify>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'.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>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!</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p><strong>What Readers Say</strong></p><p><em>I strongly encourage everyone [...] to read Lassi Liikkanen's </em>Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design<em> - 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.</em></p><p class=ql-align-right>Walker Angell author of <em>Trumpkin's Notes on Sauna</em> localmile.org</p><p class=ql-align-right></p><p><em>For anyone interested in the nitty-gritty of sauna design or considering building their own </em>The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design<em> by Lassi A. Liikkanen is considered the modern bible on the subject.</em> </p><p class=ql-align-right>Rosanna Cooney: <em>Sweat House. The New & The Ancient </em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em>Irish Sauna Tradition</em>. Irelandia Press 2025.</p><p></p>