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We’ve come across many different types of baths in our time including one shaped like a stiletto heeled shoe<\/a> and another slung from wall to wall like a hammock<\/a>. We even reported on a life-size one made completely of chocolate<\/a> although of course if you added hot water to it, it would melt. But impressive nevertheless.<\/p>\n

Another one, started as an art project in 2008, is a bath made completely of books<\/a>. We know that many of you enjoy taking a good book or e-reader into the bath with you to relax with a good story but we’ve never heard of bathing in knowledge literally surrounded by books before!<\/p>\n

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The bath of books<\/b><\/p>\n

The artist is Vanessa Mancini. She cut each book individually and fitted them together like a jigsaw attaching them to a metal bath tub\/frame. This stood on four antique lion claw feet in the style of old Victorian baths.<\/p>\n

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Vanessa Mancini building her Bath of Knowledge<\/p><\/div>\n

Vanessa\u2019s intention was to cover the books with resin so that it would become functional. As you can see from the pictures she had already set up the bath filler. While this art project was never intended for mass production. it\u2019s unfortunate that the resin layer was never added and so no one has been able to immerse themselves in water and knowledge at the same time even for a show.<\/p>\n

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Cleansing the mind as well as the body<\/b><\/p>\n

The concept was supposed to \u2018cleanse \u2013 purifying and cleaning -the mind of bombardment by the media\u2019 by soaking in this bath. Now the experience is purely metaphorical. Technically one could still sit or lay in the bath and \u2018soak\u2019 in the surrounding knowledge but there seems to be no suggestion of where one can do this.<\/p>\n

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Now it would seem that you will have to make do with an ordinary bath and take \u2018the knowledge\u2019 in with you with in book or e-reader form. Of course there is no shortage of choice when it comes to reading materials to relax with.<\/p>\n

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