The “bath”, from the Latin “balneum”, acquires since ancient times the meaning of therapeutic and spiritual rite. The health aspect and that related to he–donism, to the celebration of the cult of the body prevailed over the hygienic one; the public and social dimension prevailed over the intimate and private one. The domestic dimension is a conquest of the contemporary age, when the bathroom began to be understood as the place where services had to satisfy hygienic and comfort needs. During the Twentieth century the bathroom was reinterpreted as the most intimate, functional, technological, smart space in the home. The centuries–old history of the bathroom foreshadows a development towards new solutions that transform it into the centre of the domestic project, as a unique and irreplaceable space for relaxation and the psycho–physical well–being. This paper aims to explore the changes in the bathroom in the post–war period when suggestions for aerodynamic lines, coming from America, were reflected in domestic activities, radically changing social habits. The massive spread of electrical appliances transformed bathroom into a place full of switches, taps and buttons. Design culture interpreted change in lifestyles by inventing a new equipped domestic space involving new relationships between people and innovative auxiliary objects and insights that offered consumers great hope for the future. In the House of the Future sponsored by Monsanto Company in 1955 to demonstrate the world would never be the same again, and the bathroom showed this more than the other rooms in the traditional home.

The bathroom in The House of the Future from 1955, discovering a new quality of life

castano' francesca
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2022

Abstract

The “bath”, from the Latin “balneum”, acquires since ancient times the meaning of therapeutic and spiritual rite. The health aspect and that related to he–donism, to the celebration of the cult of the body prevailed over the hygienic one; the public and social dimension prevailed over the intimate and private one. The domestic dimension is a conquest of the contemporary age, when the bathroom began to be understood as the place where services had to satisfy hygienic and comfort needs. During the Twentieth century the bathroom was reinterpreted as the most intimate, functional, technological, smart space in the home. The centuries–old history of the bathroom foreshadows a development towards new solutions that transform it into the centre of the domestic project, as a unique and irreplaceable space for relaxation and the psycho–physical well–being. This paper aims to explore the changes in the bathroom in the post–war period when suggestions for aerodynamic lines, coming from America, were reflected in domestic activities, radically changing social habits. The massive spread of electrical appliances transformed bathroom into a place full of switches, taps and buttons. Design culture interpreted change in lifestyles by inventing a new equipped domestic space involving new relationships between people and innovative auxiliary objects and insights that offered consumers great hope for the future. In the House of the Future sponsored by Monsanto Company in 1955 to demonstrate the world would never be the same again, and the bathroom showed this more than the other rooms in the traditional home.
2022
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