Sensitivity

Redwood Ofuro’s are one of the my sensual ways to commune with wood. I’m often asked what they are finished with- and they aren’t finished, just some organic nut tree oil with some citrus to help the oil penetrate. The wood is really still alive, and allowing the wood itself to breath. With enough fiberglass you can make anything a bathtub, or a boat, but leaving the wood bare here actually helps. The wood swells with the moisture, and the joints tighten. The wood is never allowed to dry and crack, and daily baths - only with oils, no soaps- keep it clean. So this redwood- I estimated over a thousand years of growth rings across the bottom- is still alive, responding to the environment, through the oils that simply slow the process. And whether you have it in a beautiful room in your house like at the Triesch residence by Ray Kappe, like this one is going to, or you use it for beautiful forest bathing, like we do, you’re going to feel every bit of it. Every inch of the softened edge across your back, every subtle ripple of the winter rings to the summer rings. The smell of the redwood oil. The warm, cleansing water. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀