Product Description

The bathroom is the new design frontier. In urban apartments and at large secluded estates, adventurous home owners and the nation’s top designers are breaking the old rules, using space and materials in dramatic new ways and reimagining just what a bathroom can be. No longer intended solely for utilitarian purposes, today’s bathrooms are designed for everything from solitude to accommodating the family to entertaining.

The Luxury Bathroom offers a tour of thirty-five state-of-the-art spaces created by today’s top designers—among them Celerie Kemble, Jamie Drake, and Miles Redd—in exclusive residences across the country. From luxuriously equipped expanses worthy of Canyon Ranch to a tiny Beaux Arts bathroom inspired by a gallery at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to a guest bath covered in leather tiles, each room is unique and a rich source of inspiration and aspiration.

Once the most purely functional of rooms, bathrooms today are evolving into the most fanciful and sumptuous of living spaces. In these pages you’ll discover a getaway oasis that brings the spa vacation home, an unabashedly social space complete with wet bar and fabulous upholstery, and a woman’s private sanctuary that is the ultimate expression of contemporary femininity.

Not only delving into the details that make each room unique, but also including humor and insight into how the spaces reflect the owners’ lifestyle, taste, and vision, The Luxury Bathroom reveals a surprising range of possibilities for reinventing this room, for those of us who are ready to begin now or who are just dreaming about doing so.

The phenomenal array of unique materials and the limitless imagination of designers and builders have made bathrooms the new design frontier. The space has become a nucleus of style and taste, but perhaps it is most notable for seducing its owners to spend time there. And, after all, what is more luxurious than time? With the endless possibilities for what was once a boxed-in space, the bathroom has become the Cinderella star of a fancy dress ball. And so The Luxury Bathroom will inform and entertain as it celebrates not just the bathroom, but really the imagination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141922 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-26
• Released on: 2008-08-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
“Bathrooms are a given in any home, but this book ups the ante, regaling its readers with the ultimate in bathroom design.”
–Washington Spaces Magazine

“[Nestor] has a well-trained eye for design that defies convention and offers wonderful surprises.”
–The Hartford Courant

"Finally, a work that embodies the true sense of Luxury in the bath. Samantha Nestor captures in these pages the wonderment of the private world of the bath. Her selection of these rooms gives us a new perspective of how function and personality can shape space, and ultimately takes the bathroom out of the closet."
- Jon Spector, President, Dornbracht Americas

“Nestor and company show us that the bathroom is not just the room where you 'have to go,' but through great design can cab the ultimate personal escape.”
—CouchKarma.com

“Vivid photgraphs bring these incredible rooms to life, while practical information shows readers how to turn the imagined into reality.”
—The Daily News of Los Angeles

“No bathroom is too small to be a stunning showcase…Samantha Nestor takes readers into spectacular examples across the nation.”
—Houston Chronicle

“[Nestor] brings you into some of the most incredibly tiled and styled bathroom spaces in the country.”
—New York Daily News

“A chic tome.”
—nixon-now.blogspot.com

About the Author
SAMANTHA NESTOR is the special projects editor at Metropolitan Home magazine. Previously she was the director of marketing and communications at the New York Design Center and also worked at the Frick Collection and the New York Public Library. She lives in Darien, Connecticut, with her husband and son.

Customer Reviews

Luxury Bathroom: Extraordinary Spaces from the Simple to the Extravagant
This is one of the best bathroom books I have seen in the last 20 years. This book has quality printing and the rooms are high-end that provide great ideas.

The book also provides many different styles of rooms from simple to more formal

A beautiful book
Many great ideas from some of the country's most inspirational designers. A terrific resource for anyone considering a bathroom design.

LOVING EVERY LOO!
I LOVE this book! What the author does is show you how your bathroom isn't just a room with a bath, it's really an extension of your whole personality and the feeling of your home. She shows you how to make your bathroom really warm and inviting and USEFUL! Whether you want it to be your personal zen escape, a child's play space, a grown up's retreat, etc. The images are lush and luxurious, but there's definitely something to take away as cheap-and-chic inspiration at every price level. J'adore! If you're renovating your bathroom, this is a great place to start for ideas. A must!