Mon, 04 Jul 2005
Spa
Allison Arieff, Bryan Burkhardt, Spa, Taschen
Do males go to spas? I don't know. In every photo you ever see
there's usually a pretty female reclining in some sort of liquid
with, maybe, cucumbers covering her eyes. I'm quite curious about this.
Maybe the blokes are banished to a beer shed or something ... or maybe
the next town.
The way they're depicted, they're a sort of opposite to, say, a
rugby tour of New Zealand or one of those faraway fishing places or
anywhere for grownups with "camp" in the name.
Anyway, this is a big beautiful book about spas around the world.
It is primarily pictorial but there are descriptions for each of the
eighty-three spas that are featured. They are in all parts of the
world -- Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, North
America, South Pacific, and Mexico and South America.
As you make your way through you will discover the mention of
one celebrity male -- Robert De Niro in connection with Shambhala
at Parrot Quay.
The object of course, for the humans involved, is beautification
and purification, and so some pains have been gone to with all these
places to make them attractive and soothing and generally good for
the old bien-etre. And all of that makes for some pretty pictures.
If you are actually in the market to go to such a place then
this book might be an excellent place to go to sort out the
contenders.
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