Architect Peter Zumthor's Baths at the Vals Thermal Spa in Vals, Switzerland are a real lesson in restraint, tranquility, and ceremony...
The baths are constructed of over 60,000 stone slabs of Valser Quartzite, which was quarried only 2 kilometers from the building site. At the Vals Thermal Spa there is an ice bath, a fire bath, and outdoor and indoor pools - all bathing the user in thermal treats for the senses. It looks like the setting is just beautiful: Vals is set in a mountain valley, pictured at left.
Maybe in our own home baths, we're all striving to capture the essence of escape and calm offered by baths like these at Vals? (re-edited from 2007-03-12, RY)
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....we fondly referred to as "the cross-europe architectural death march"...HAHAHAHAHA!
I've been on one of those in Spain and Portugal with my last college roommate and the woman who took my room when I moved out. The one that has had us both as roomies will love that phrase! She has photos of the blisters on her feet to prove it.