It’s a Spa, Spa, Spa, Spa World
November 3, 2003
Showers are at the vanguard of this new age of bathrooms, a testament to the American ideal of practical (and daily) indulgence. The best are customized creations likely to include combinations of body jets, body sprays, handheld showerheads and, as a gesture to the spa mind-set of bringing the outdoors in, waterfalls. The new thermostatic Total Escape custom shower from Delta Select is a mix of showerheads, spouts, body sprays and jets, with volume controls that independently adjust each outlet.
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Chris Kofitsas created the first blue glass tile room with an aromatherapy tub at the DePasquale Spa in New Jersey five years ago. (Click image to enlarge)Standing in the hallways of Tru, a day spa in San Francisco, a stretch of curvy walls leads the eye to treatment rooms that glow in mesmerizing shades of red, blue, green and orange. Hidden beyond these modern surfaces, designer Chris Kofitsas, a cofounder of New World Design Builders in New Jersey, pulled his favorite trump card—falling water, and lots of it. Its primal effects are most profound in Tru’s Rainforest Room, a private treatment space outfitted with its own waterfall for showering off body wraps and various skincare infusions. For the Manhattan penthouse of a male business executive, Kofitsas applied the same mind-set to an oversize shower. Numerous showerheads were set into the ceiling so that the entire shower "rains." He also leveraged the mechanics aesthetically by exposing the stainless steel pipes that route the hot water, using them to heat towels and robes in the process. To warm the visual and underfoot cool of the marble-clad space, electronic mats laid under the floor provide a mild, muscle-relaxing temperature.
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