{"product_id":"liikkanen-secrets-of-finnish-sauna-design","title":"Liikkanen - Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew research has identified Finnish sauna bathing as a source of numerous health benefits. To enjoy these effects, one needs a proper Finnish sauna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides answers to three major questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eWhat is a Finnish sauna? \u003cbr\u003eWhat you should require from its design? \u003cbr\u003eHow to design a Finnish sauna in detail?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design\u003c\/em\u003e, Second Edition, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eWhat Readers Say\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI strongly encourage everyone […] to read Lassi Liikkanen’s Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design – 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalker Angell, author of \u003cem\u003eTrumpkin’s Notes on Sauna\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/localmile.org\/\"\u003elocalmile.org \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone interested in the nitty-gritty of sauna design, or considering building their own, The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design by Lassi A. Liikkanen is considered the modern bible on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosanna Cooney: \u003cem\u003eSweat House. The New \u0026amp; The Ancient Irish Sauna Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e. Irelandia Press, 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition contains several pages of new content, over one hundred minor corrections, and several items of new information, including two completely revised reference tables. The update is especially focused on North American audiences to use more consistently compatible terminology. 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