The kitchen will always be the social
center of a home — just throw a
party and see where most of the guests
wind up. But from the look of the bath
exhibits at April's Kitchen and Bath
Industry Show in Chicago, visitors may
start showing up wearing towels. The
playful fixtures and amenities available
for the contemporary bathroom go
beyond mere considerations of functional
hygiene to suggest that, in some
homes at least, bathrooms are evolving
into multipurpose luxury centers.
Water World
Shower spa enclosures are a spacesaving
alternative to a jetted whirlpool
tub (see Figure 1). Some enclosures
include programmable aqua-massage,
music, video, mood-enhancing colored
light, and aromatic vapors. Pearl
Shower's Apoge ($3,405 base price)
incorporates a whirlpool foot