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Thomas Linssen on a bathtub as furniture

By Rain Noe - September 24, 2010

in Object Culture

Eindhoven grad and designer Thomas Linssen, operating under his Studio ThoL brand, has combined two old things--a chair and a bathtub--and combined them to make one new thing: A tub made using chairmaking techniques, and skinned in a polyester composite.

Romans carved tubs out of stone, cowboys used large tin buckets, suburbanites had porcelain; but as Linssen points out, "due to science there are now many more materials available." Read his full description of the project, which he terms an "evolution," here.

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I love it. I don't take many baths, but when I do it's to relax, which is done while sitting. And it never seems like tubs are really made for sitting at all, nevermind two-person sitting.

Of course the slopes rule out this as a shower/tub combo, but in my dream house the two are separate anyway...
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