Wait. Does this work? Wouldn't the glass get fogged up? It's beautiful, though, in the photo. :)

wow, I love this...!!
It's like you became the fish in the fish tank.

It's beautiful, but I'd hate to be in there when the caulk finally goes.

This would have to be thoroughly cleaned after every use since the bathtub "ring" or soap scum would show from the outside.

cool pic but ya know how when you are in a pool everything looks magnified and your skin (For us white people) looks even paler. Imagine trying to look sexy in that!

It's really pretty in theory, but in practice this would just creep me out.

I can't decide if I love this or hate it. The picture is pretty awesome, though!

Love it! But how do you get in...?

It doesn't look very comfortable... I'd have to see the right-hand wall, but can you lie down and recline in this one, like a regular bath? Or is it all straight lines?

Looks beautiful in the picture, though :)

That picture gives me anxiety... all i can imagine is slipping while attempting to get in

I love it! Great concept - who cares about the maintenance! I would actually like to see the entire thing. If the end is slanted it would still be comfortable to recline, but I'm not sure about resting your arm on the top of the glass wall....appears too narrow to be comfortable.

It's gorgeous but every speck of dirt will show.

Now I'm wondering ... I have a space that's small and oddly-shaped for a tub (I have a corner shower now), but would this mean I could just wall off a portion of the room and treat it as a tub?

Forget bathing, I'd fill it with sharks.

Umm, no.

I love this photo and the idea of this. Kids would love it. But it certianly wouldn't be comfortable to soak in and its not suited for a shower either. It just seems completely impractical, but if you have a huge home and extra bathrooms and wanted a showpiece, this is definitely cool.

I see potential for some awesome photographs of people in the tub here. Maybe a baby playing in some shallow water? It would be neat to see all the toys floating on top of the water.

I completely agree with Scoot

lol Scoot

MMM. My pasty white underwater thighs, made pastier and whiter and giant-er, through the miracle of optical illusion. Pass.

freaks. me. out.

It's like a science experiment! I can't even imagine my fat, white pasty rear end floating behind that piece of glass. Dear lord help the person who would have to ever witness that.

Totally, totally love it.

Love it. I can't believe people care what they look like. Who is in the bathroom with you anyway? This would be awesome with kids.

Cool, visually, but probably not very livable. Considering these people combined two row-houses, they probaly DO have a maid, or at least a multi-weekly service.

So paradise island. I'm kind of feeling its Wonder Woman invisible plane potential.

so cool, but practical? nope! at least not in my house.

i really like this. its hard to get a real sense for it just from this picture. i don't even care how practical it would be to clean it... i guess the only thing that would get me is that there isn't really a ledge to sit on. Plus it seems really high--as though it would be very difficult to bathe a baby. I think its pretty awesome overall though.

Yep, it'd definitely have to be cleaned after each use - still, I totally want it, and an extra bathroom to put it in. Would not be practical in a main family bath.

It's a lovely tub but really super enormous! I hope that the water used after a bath is somehow reused for watering plants or something. Not a very GREEN eco-friendly tub IMHO.

Awesome to look at with or without sharks. As long as we don't get glass-bottomed tubs where the unlucky people on the floor below get a view...

Love the look, but I'm with rb233541 - if you slip I think it's guillotine time. Youch!

And I wish the photo should the side - is there a place to perch for ingress/egress? Or do you HAVE to balance over the blade of doom?

"showed" Should should read 'showed'

It looks BEAUTIFUL empty, but I feel like you'd have to be a supermodel to look remotely attractive bathing in it.

Reminds me of Nerva's suicide scene from "Caligula" - where he bleeds to death in a glass bathtub....

...otherwise, I think it's darned cool - I'd like to have a tub like this!

Yeah, I don't need to look any more like Free Willy than I already do.

But it's still cool to look at.

Forget keeping it clean, I just can't stop imagining squished flesh...

Two thoughts, who takes baths anymore? Second, Rain-X, put that on the glass, and then, when the scumminess gets too crazy, use polishing compound.

I LOVE it. Maybe to recline, it needs to be just a little bigger, with one of those little islands with a palm tree like you keep turtles in.

very glam, and with candles...

Doesn't look comfortable at all... and for the commenter who was wondering, I for one take baths every day to soothe sore muscles!

I do not want this in my house, but I would like to try it out somewhere else. Somewhere I don't have to clean or worry about kids. Or worry about huge investments becoming annoying.

It is truly beautiful, but this would definitely end in serious injury if it was installed in my own bathroom.
Plus, I already have a fish tank. No need.

I'm in love! I would look dirty in that clean tub with my husband! Way more eco-friendly than ghetto fiberglass tubs you drop in... Blah! Great for kids too and sharks too! My question is... How do I make one and keep it sealed?

C'est très beau mais.... à priori inconfortable et cela doit être un enfer à nettoyer !!!

The steam would cloud the glass, right?

It's beautiful!

What is this? An aquarium for ... people? Scary.

Wow, that's impressive.

Yeah, nice, but I think there are a few reasosn we haven't seen this before.

gives me the creeps... i'd be too anxious to relax in the tub. not safe for kids either.

Looks like a contemporary baptistry. Cool, but echo all the cleanliness/visual complaints found above.

I am kind of in the same mind as other readers, style is beautiful but lacks practicality in terms of cleaning and safety. I wonder how the home owners like it?

Beautiful and modern. I'm concerned about safety and not having a place to rest one's feet to dry. Might look good for show but not sure how practical.

I hate myself for loving this because it's so dangerous!

Oh wow, that just summed up my whole life...

It looks pretty in pictures, but for practicality and comfort I prefer my clawfoot.

Looks great but I'm not sure how I'd feel sitting in it if that makes sense. Might feel a bit strange and our limescale would be a problem on that glass but fab for a show bathroom

Ah, think of the possibilities for practical jokes, though. Chuck and Kiki come home from an exhausting ski vaycay in Gstaad, only to find the interior of their bathtub filled with... a disturbingly large mass of springy purple jell-o. Or small, live caiman crocodiles wearing really tiny party hats and paddling around on miniature Zodiac rafts. Or a really large Christmas trifle. "Chuck, who would do this to so many innocent raspberries?" Kiki gasps. "And, more to the point, will the mascarpone stain the grout??"

Wouldn't like to HAVE one, but would love to TRY one! :)

Reminds me of a gorgeous hotel I saw in Australia once, in northern Queensland, at the beach. The hotel rooms had balconies which were SMALL POOLS with glass sides... so from the outside you could see these gorgeous blue blocks of water. Incredible!

The picture looks really pretty, but I wouldn't want to bathe in that. I'm the kind of person that puts extra bubble bath in the tub so people can come in to the bathroom without seeing my body, but that wouldn't work if the sides were glass.

It looks lovely. However it doesn't seem very practical to be honest. When you get in and out of a bath, you always hold on to the sides. You can't do that with a sheet of glass - it would hurt your hands! Saying that, I wouldn't say no if it was given to me!

all of the above... and also... an exposed edge of tempered glass is its weakest point... if you dropped the shampoo bottle wrong you could shatter the whole pane... that might be a slight exaggeration, but a good rap with something pointy would definitely be bad.

I'm also curious about whether there is a slope to lean against on the right side... if not, MEGA uncomfortable tub!

LOL to all the comments, this one in particular:

" I can't even imagine my fat, white pasty rear end floating behind that piece of glass. Dear lord help the person who would have to ever witness that."

Made my day, so I thank you.

Mrs_mouse is right it definitely could shatter and... ouch... and... FLOOD!

But, people shampoo in the TUB?? I feel ridiculous not having ever known that. Needless to say our jetted tub goes unused a lot, unless I have the need to soak the back.

I would LOVE THIS, I would never ever bathe in it, I would only fill it with clean water and float candles in it and turn the lights way down. Then invite everyone over that I know for a dinner party and a tour. WIN!

"Aw honey, I love all the little tile marks on your ass after you get out of the tub! Come here!"

I really like it in many ways, but, i would worry a lot about getting in and out without my glasses on. i wouldn't be able to see the top of the glass and I can imagine oh so many incidents occurring!

It's a little creepy to me although in the picture it does look nice but there are just something we should NOT see

This is definitely unique and could be a real selling feature if you are renovating or building a new home. On the DIY note, it might be a bit safer and likable to have only the main side glass with a comfortable and ‘accessibility’ feature added (I don’t want to fall or come out with tile marks…).

I loved it! It's like being in the pool but at home.

How would you get in and out without killing yourself? Bad design.

OMG! That is totally amazing and just might be the solution to our master bath that we've been looking for! We want a giant shower since we rarely "bathe," but worry about resale value for getting rid of the tub. This is the PERFECT SOLUTION!!!

I'm with a lot of others on this - theory, yes; practice, no.

"SO....come up to the lab.... and see what's on the slab....."

I think my dogs would love peering at me from the other side!

@MyDogistheShihTzu Huh? Where do you wash your hair? The sink?

Nice idea and very chic but who will clean this each time after using?

What if the tile job fails, I don't want to imagine what my 48 yr. old man body would look like in that. Just fill it with Goldfish....

I think I'd like a frosted one better.

I wouldn't want this but it makes me think how pretty (albeit hard to clean) an old-fashioned free-standing tub made of glass would be.

"Yeah, I don't need to look any more like Free Willy than I already do."
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Best comment ever...thank you, Britomart!

To celt-grrrl.... BBWWHAHAHAHHAHA! I was thinking along the lines of "What fabulous things (other than my Rubenesque self) could I put in that??"

It is gorgeous. It's totally impractical. However, I wish I could find a way to make it work in my house, which is the whole point of the original design of anything. It's for us to get our brains thinking in a way we hadn't before to see solutions where we might have just shrugged and accepted whatever was available rather than think outside the box.

Would be great for a luxury hotel.

To whoever was worried about getting cut on the edge---have you ever gotten cut on the edge of a glass door in a public building? No, of course not. The glass is ground and polished.

And yeah, this glass could be broken, but how often do glass doors get broken in daily use? It takes a pretty hard blow to do it. Way more than dropping a shampoo bottle on it.

That said, if I was gonna do this I'd get the thickness used in giant aquarium tanks, which I think is 1" thick or more---if for no other reason than to have a comfortably thick edge.

Very nice!

I'm with spanky, I'd want to use thicker glass for this, not so much for safety (I'm sure the glass is shatterproof), but for the aesthetics and to form a wider ledge.

Of course, that would cost a fortune...

I wonder if you could use glass block for this? Not as "transparent", which might be an advantage, but wonderfully translucent.

Thinking outside the box! Love it. So original.

I love the practicality of all these comments--all about how you'd clean it, etc. I just think this tub is ridiculously sexy... all thoughts of cleaning were driven from my mind by pleasanter imaginings. Clearly, I am the sucker they designed this for!

Yes @Sundaydrive00, that's exactly what I do. I wash my hair in the sink.

I wash my hair in the shower. Where I also wash my body. I use my jetted tub for relaxing (RARE) and soothing overworked muscles. I shower to clean myself and wash my hair as to not be then sitting in what I just washed off. (Gag).

this looks amazingly cool
but it would probably be pretty uncomfortable and kinda gross after a while....
they should mold maybe a clear plastic or slemthing into a tub shape though that might lose th effect

As mentioned by most, the tub is aesthetically pleasing and sexy (something out of a James Bond movie for sure!), but it doesn't seem practical on several levels at the end of the day. In my opinion, the best designed objects account equally for "function" as well as form.

...Still, I'd love to see Brad Pitt or Javier Bardem or Will Smith photographed naked in it.

Um, do you people not have the combination shower/tub setup that's in most non-extravagant homes? You shower and wash your hair in said contraption, only generally the tub part isn't filled at the time. *headdesk*

I love it!

I understand I am a little late to join the conversation, but couldn't keep this to myself...
Check out this Italian take on a clear glass bathtub. Stunning, isn't it?
http://www.xlacasa.it/dettaglio_arredamenti_casa.asp?ita_titolo=Allos,%20la%20vasca%20da%20bagno%20per%20l%27uomo%20invisibile

This is just simply great. It's given me some ideas! :-) I would use this type of coloured glass though - Blue toughened laminated - not clear glass.

This is too much like something out of an Argento movie. I'd be afraid of getting decapitated on it.

duuuuuude - this is amazing! i want/need one now!

Bethany
http://powellbrower.blogspot.com/2011/12/living-room-reimagined.html

Um, this is cool, but it reminds me of a baptismal tub. The kind with a clear viewing panel. http://www.georgescreek.org/photos.php?albumID=18224topPhoto

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