Experiencing stone therapy in an Advent Design stone bath, like a therapeutic massage might help to restore better circulation to the body.  We design our Advent Design stone baths with the utmost attention and care to true comfort.  The interior walls of an Advent Design stone bath are very smartly contoured for a very comfortable experience.  Therefore, when the walls of the bath are warm and you are comfortably seated in the stone bath the advantages of stone therapy can be enjoyed. 

We have read that hot stone therapy also improves lymph drainage, encouraging the discharge of toxins from the system.  And as we all have known in the most recent 25 years holistic medicines and therefore holistic healing has become widely recognized as a genuine effective tool in improving one's health.  In fact, therapeutic massage has shown great efficacy in relieving pain, muscle tightness and sleep disorders, and stress related disturbances.

At Advent Design we know of a client who has discovered the unique benefits of utilizing an Advent Design stone bath for stone therapy as follows.  Fill an Advent Design stone bath with hot water and let the Advent stone tub remain filled with this hot water, let the stone steep, drain the stone tub, and then climb in and plaster your body to the surface.  This is natural stone therapy!

Remember, our stone baths are from the earth - there is nothing more greatly rewarding than a bathing experience in an Advent Design stone bath, in fact, we state quite clearly in all of our written correspondence that an Advent Design bath is "therapy for the body and soul and enjoyment for a lifetime".

Nowadays more and more occupations require people in front of computers for extended periods of time and adhere to minute by minute schedules.  People are thus seeking time and space for healing.  Trust us to tell you bathing in an Advent Design stone bath original will give you some of what we all need genuine relaxation for a healthier lifestyle. 

We at Advent Design care deeply about Italy and all that it means to the world at large. 

Advent Design has relied heavily upon the good and great visions of the Italians for its magnificent Advent Stone custom stone bath creations.  For more than thirty years Advent Design's founder has been traveling to Italy to gain inspiration and knowledge of this great culture.  In fact, he lived in Italy for more than ten years.  

Luciam the second century Greek rhetorician described Italy as paradise.  The buildings of Italy span almost 3,000 years drawing influences from a wide variety of sources.  Etruscan and Roman buildings borrowed heavily from ancient Greece and in later centuries, Norman, Arabic and Byzantine styles colored Italy's Romanesque and gothic architecture.  Anywhere you turn while in Italy your eye will discover the art and science of magnificent design. 

If you give the Italians a problem to solve they are proficient to resolve it.  As part of their unique character as a culture the Italians have the inherent carefree and free thinking characteristic in their personality to freely dream of new ways to interpret ideas.  A fundamental outcome of this inherent characteristic can be easily recognized in their art, architecture and creative design workmanship as a culture. 

Would you like to bejewel your bathroom with a masterwork of art and design?  At Advent Design we create exclusive baths carved from solid blocks of stone including, travertine, marble, basalt and limestone for private residencies all over the world.  Advent Design has assembled a team of experts to create true and actual works of art which will transform a relaxing bath into an experience of holistic vanity.  But behind so much of what we do are the great minds of the Italians and their culture. 

Internationally renowned for its' marble quarries we often go to Carrara in search of blocks of stone to create Advent hand carved solid stone baths.  Carrara's almost flawless white stone has been prized for centuries by famous sculptors for Michelangelo to Henry Moore (the stone from Michelangelo's David came from Carrara.  This regions' three hundred or more quarries date back to Roman times making this one of the oldest industrial sites in continuous use in the world. 

Advent Design goes to many of the cities marble-sawing mills and stone carvers workshops in search of second and third generation stone masters whom understand how to work the marble in quartz in ways that most of the world's cultures could never understand.  For example, if you look at Advent Design's model Siena round stone bath it is an object of great beauty and exemplifies an Italian stone master's eye to create detail and near perfection in the art of creating a truly magnificent Advent Design stone bath.

Stone may be defined as concreted earthly or mineral matter, an aggregate of particles composed of one or more minerals.  In fact stone forms the major part of the earth's crust which may otherwise be described an igneous rock, metamorphic rock and sedimentary rock. 

At Advent Design we must always be very thoughtful in choosing the right stone to create our magnificent custom baths, tubs and basins.  For example, limestone is the result of millions of years of sea shells and bones of sea creatures settling on the ocean floor and is appropriately called a sedimentary stone.  The gathering or collecting of the "sediment" continued for a period of 50 million years and ended between 200 and 300 million years ago.  The calcium in the shells and bones combined with the carbon dioxide in the water formed calcium carbonate, the basic mineral component of all limestone and marble. 

Advent Design custom baths carved from limestone results in a custom bath that is often monochromatic in color and is desired by those seeking a minimalist form of purity in interior design bathrooms for the luxury bath and spa. 

Moreover, Advent Design custom stone baths are perfectly suited to the green architecture environment.  In fact, green architecture or green design or "sustainable design" is the art of designing physical objects to comply with the principals of ecological sustainability.  It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for every day use all the way through to the macrocosm of designing whole buildings, cities and the earth's physical surface.  It is a growing trend in the field of industrial and interior design bathrooms. 

As one can imagine Advent Design is taking the earth's natural resource and utilizing nautral stone in the process of shaping the experience of interior design space.  Advent Design stone baths should not be considered interior decoration but rather transforming nature's greatness into functional works of art.

Think green!

At Advent Design we have the unique capability to create a solid stone soaking bath from basalt stone.  Basalt stone can be found all over the world however, to achieve uniform coloration such as fine grained medium toned gray basalt, requires the very careful selection and only a few quarries in the world, in our view, are the right choice for a high quality Advent Design stone tub.

Basalt is igneous rock which is formed when rock or magna cools and solidifies with or without crystallization either below the surface or on the surface.  This magna can be derived from partial melt of preexisting rocks in either the earth's mantel or crust.   Basalt is usually fined grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the earth's surface. 

The basalt stone we use at Advent Design to create these luxurious basalt baths in fact is fine grained.  For example, the crustal portions of oceanic tectonic plates are composed predominately of basalt which is produced from upwelling peridotite in the mantel below ocean ridges.  Gaius Plinius Secundus better know as Pliny Velder who lived in 79AD was an ancient author, natural philosopher and military commander of importance who wrote a book named Naturalis Historia and in that book he referred to basalt stone which is said to have had an Ethiopian origin as a word meaning black stone.