The water and the evolution of the bathroom

From the instinct to clean to the evolution of the bathroom, the leap is long. The first that created places dedicated to physiological needs were the Hindu tribes. And the first forms of bathroom were thought as a place to socialize and for the cultural exchange. A strangeness that became reality between the rich Greek and Roman families that spent a lot of times having thermal baths.

In the Middle Age everything changed and the water started to be seen as a threat for the health. The inadequate attention to the hygiene was often cause of infective diseases and also death. A popular and dangerous belief that lasted for so many time, until the eighteenth century, when the evolution of the bathroom started.

The reaffirmation of the attention for the cleanliness and the body hygiene. At the beginning the bathroom was installed outside the houses, then in a room far from the bedrooms along the  walkway, and finally in private ambient, inside the home.

The history of the bathroom starts a really long time ago, the Ceramica Flaminia one started in the ‘50s: a new revolution, the one of design and style. Continue reading us to find out the creation of the colored and sinuous sanitary ware.

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The water and the evolution of the bathroom