BATHROOM DESIGN
11 September 2008
“A Comfort for the Mind”
I have talked so much about imagination in these blogs, that I am surely beginning to sound like a broken record, but I remain convinced that the biggest room in the world is the room for imagination. These blogs have been, for me, a journey into a magical land that pushes up against every boundary I ever knew. And along the way I have encountered an astonishing number of people who can take an age-old institution like a bathroom, which is what—sink, toilet, tub/shower—and make it into something so 
luxurious and so pampering that you really feel something of an obligation to slap those who can actually obtain something like that! But what these ideas do, I think, is open the doors for the rest of us to do something altogether different with our own bathroom designs.
The bathroom design we have featured here is an illustration of what we have been talking about. It is both pampering and innovative, so let’s take those items in sequence. My Genesi bills themselves as providing the finest spa treatments in glamorous baths and enclosures, and they certainly live up to that. They have built-in reclining baths to enable one to have a full body soak, and let me tell you, there’s just nothing like that. We are able to do that, of course, in our outside spa, and it makes all the difference in the world. The normal tub allows one to soak one’s legs or one’s torso, never both at the same time. But when all of you is immersed in hot water, that is very much the ticket. And this is just the beginning from My Genesi.
They also feature a steam shower enclosure that features a stunning, stainless steel pillar and teak seats. Some of them come with a mosaic stone finish, and all of them are surrounded with curving glass doors.
And even then, we are not finished. The concept pictured at the top of this blog really is the ultimate pampering touch because of what they did with the design of it. I have never seen a split level bathroom—and for all I know, this is really just something from a show room—but it is a concept that lends itself to all kinds of possibilities. Note that the vanity under the sink is firmly on the floor of the raised portion, then ventures out into space for the portion under the sink. The sink is both practical, in its large size, and sensuous in its shape. And what is more luxurious than the traditional Greek white and blue?
Many years ago one of the car companies advertised their product by stating that it was “a shelter for the body and a comfort for the mind.” Man, the people who wrote that copy should have seen this bathroom design. More than comfort for the mind or mind over matter, My Genesi is a bathroom design wherein mind seems almost to have transformed matter and, in so doing, has created a pampering place that defies belief.
Joseph
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