Lassi Liikkanen

A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna DesignFor Builders of Rustic Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment SaunasAre you planning a new sauna, renovating an old one, or just dreaming? Do yourself a favor. Save your sauna project and read this wonderfully illustrated book about the design of authentic Finnish saunas New research has identified Finnish sauna bathing as a source of numerous health benefits. To enjoy these effects, one needs a proper Finnish sauna. This book presents the collective wisdom accumulated by Finnish sauna builders, designers, and researchers across centuries, enabling anyone, anywhere, to design a pleasant bath house for family and friend to enjoy. This book provides answers to three major questions: What is a Finnish sauna? What you should require from its design? How to design a Finnish sauna in detail? The book covers all aspects needed to design a functional, healthy, and delightful sauna, from heating and air quality to interior design. It instructs the reader how to master both tangible and intangible, visible and invisible elements of a sauna. The book puts a special emphasis on the sauna experience, living up to the belief that short-term satisfaction is the first step towards long-term health benefits. It features examples of contemporary Finnish sauna design and outlines why a true sauna experience is so much more than merely 'a hot room'. Author Dr. Lassi A Liikkanen (Aalto University) is a designer and scholar. The book is based on five years of intensive research and interviews of key Finnish sauna experts. For his sauna-focused website at Saunologia.fi, he has authored over two hundred articles. His academic accomplishments include nearly one hundred peer-reviewed papers, the latest of those around sauna bathing Lassi Liikkanen knows good sauna design. He also knows how critical good design is to enjoying the authentic Finnish bathing experience. I enthusiastically support this effort to share his special knowledge and sauna wisdom with the world. Mikkel Aaland, author of Sweat, and host of the documentary series, Perfect Sweat. There is a sauna boom in North America. More and more people are finding the rejuvenating qualities of sauna bathing. For those, who want to learn more of a fulfilling sauna design and the pieces that it consists of, Lassi's book is a great information source. Reading this book will help you take the sauna to the next, authentic, level. Eero Kilpi, Ph. D., President, The North American Sauna Society

The popularity of saunas is no doubt one of the reasons why Finns are the happiest people in the world-even during the winter. Of all the different types of saunas, to this day the smoke sauna is still considered superior by many, even though it's been around for centuries. Yet, despite the smoke sauna's Finnish fame and popularity, there are very few English books detailing its fascinating origins or instructions on how to build one...until now. Like a Finnish smoke sauna at sunset, that space is currently occupied by Building a Traditional Finnish Smoke Sauna, the first book of its kind written by experienced and professional log builder, Jarmo Hiltunen. In Building a Traditional Finnish Smoke Sauna, Jarmo walks you through the detailed, strategically organized and practical instructions for building your very own log-framed smoke sauna, including:site selectionsturdy stove creationeffective fire protection; andmuch, much moreAs a bonus, you'll learn about the ancient origins and evolution of Finland's iconic sauna culture, the fabled legend of its mysterious little guardian, and important, regionally specific, and impossible-to-translate-into-English terms such as löyly, kitku and siintyminen. So, if you're looking for a book that details how to properly and safely build a traditional Finnish smoke sauna, with all of its woodsy, sooty, natural characteristics-a book written by someone who's "been there" and "done that"-you're in the right place." Finnish Smoke Sauna" is a book that presents the instructions for building a smoke sauna, which is unknown to many foreigners. However, the smoke sauna is the historical basis of all modern Finnish saunas. Because of this fact, the same structural characteristics can be adapted almost unchanged to any type of sauna if the local circumstances do not allow the construction of a real smoke sauna. For this reason, this book is an important aid for every builder of smoke saunas and modern saunas. Risto Vuolle-Apiala, Architect and Smoke Sauna ResearcherSmoke sauna is the best sauna experience one can have. The original Finnish sauna has been also smoke sauna. There are only few books written about smoke sauna and it's construction and they all are sold out. Now Jarmo Hiltunen has been writing a detailed book that makes it possible to any one to build a Finnish smoke sauna. We at International Sauna Association ISA are glad to advertise this book and we hope that it is going to be used. Risto Elomaa, President of the International Sauna Association ISA