Hammam or Turkish bath has nothing common with Finnish saunas or Russian baths. Hammam premises are decorated inside with the use of natural stone. Along the walls there are benches for which facing of natural marble was used. And a humid air is filled with herbs’ and balms’ smell.
Hammam or Turkish bath has nothing common with Finnish saunas or Russian baths. Hammam premises are decorated inside with the use of natural stone. Along the walls there are benches for which facing of natural marble was used. And a humid air is filled with herbs’ and balms’ smell.
Hammam facing is often performed in oriental style using marble slabs and mosaic. Marble is an optimal material for hammam finishing as it’s not subjected to actions of bacteria and microorganisms; it looks rather aristocratic, serves a long time and creates an unusual atmosphere for comfort and relaxation.
Due to its organic origin marble has got not only excellent hygienic features but also bactericidal qualities exercising a salutary influence over human organism.
• Plank bed. For making a bench or a plank bed that fulfills the role of massage table in hammam as a rule a single marble slab is used.
• Floor. For facing the floor in a Turkish bath various shades of natural marble can be used that allows creating original ornaments and panels.
• Walls. For finishing the walls a mosaic coupled with natural marble slabs are traditionally used in hammam.
• Vault. A vault or a ceiling of hammam is also faced with marble mosaic.
Usability and longevity. Marble doesn’t crumble even after constant exposure to water that is present in the bath and also doesn’t react to exposure to subversive active substances. This material provides a high level of hygiene in the room, has got bactericidal qualities. There are no growing bacteria and microorganisms on its surface.
Hammam finished with stone will serve for decades saving an attractive appearance and operational qualities. Natural stone is not afraid of temperature differences which happen in hammam constantly.
Prestige value and originality. A wide range of colors and textures of natural material allows creating an absolutely unique space in hammam. A hammam decorated with natural stone has a high status. Not only does it attract the attention of the customers to the beauty of its decoration but it also means a status of the owner.
Not only marble is used for the finishing of hammams but also granite, onyx, travertine the color range of which allows choosing the best from plenty of variants of a design for the Turkish bath. The man visited hammam gains a clarity of mind, vivacity of the spirit, beauty and health.
Mosaic installation to the walls and a vault of hammam is presented to be a rather labor-intensive process requiring maximum attention, professional knowledge and experience from the executor. Mosaic laying is usually performed by the most popular matrix method – in a factory all the mosaic plates are glued to a paper or a grid base and a tiler lays out the sheets on pre-prepared base assembling a composition.
The process of cladding by matrix method is extremely painstaking because mosaic reveals all defects of the surface. A tiler must prepare the surface thoroughly having made it flat and smooth. At the same time the master must perform a laying of marble mosaic in such a way that a distance between matrix sheets matches up to a millimeter with a seam thickness between mosaic chips. Otherwise the integrity of the composition is lost.
