Hasta La Ideas

You know summer is in full swing when even our bathtubs are stretching their legs and kicking back, hammock-style. That’s good for us. The more ways we can include that slouchy, forgiving form in our everyday lives, the more likely we are to experience the easy relaxation we associate with it. Here’s hoping.

Splinter Works, a design studio headquartered 30 miles south of London, has fused two furnishings—the hammock and the bathtub—into a serious relaxation tool. Constructed from aerospace-grade carbon fiber and foam, even the woven structure evokes the tree-suspended swing. Water fills Vessel from a freestanding tap, and a drain in the floor catches suds released by way of a plug at the tub’s lowest point. Like any good hammock, it’s strong enough to cradle two.

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