This immersive, multi-sensory installation was conceived as an elemental world — inviting visitors into a place where architecture, landscape, and serenity are experienced as a single, interdependent experience.
Set within the courtyard of the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, The Bathhouse is a collaboration between Kohler and Richard Christiansen, founder of Los Angeles’ Flamingo Estate. Anchored by a bold brutalist structure that appears to emerge organically from a field of wildflowers, the bathhouse dissolves the boundary between built form and living ecosystem.
Monumental stained glass windows filter light across terracotta-toned surfaces while candles line the walls. “The Bathhouse is a meditation on ritual, nature, and the quiet power of materials,” Richard explains. “We imagined a place where wildflowers, water, and light come together to create a sensory experience that reconnects us to the rhythms of the earth.”
Inside is Reverie, an enamelled cast iron freestanding bath, reimagined with a copper shroud that serves as the focal point of the space. Pure, simple, and elemental.
