The hammam line

Thermées — from thermae, the thermal bath — is the men's line of the maison. It is named after the unbroken Bithynian bath-tradition that runs in Bursa for nearly two thousand years: a Roman foundation, a Byzantine continuation, an Ottoman culmination with the great Mimar Sinan hammams.

Where the other five lines carry one anchor plant, Thermées carries four — the masculine anatolian quartet: black seed from Konya and Niğde, laurel from Bursa, olive from Ayvalık, rosehip from Erzincan. Together they cover the four directions of the country.

The register is masculine in the Ottoman sense — precise, dignified, quiet. Not the cologne-counter masculinity. The hammam masculinity: discipline, ritual, the body as something to be cared for, not corrected. A morning practice that does not announce itself.

Four pieces at launch. Product names to follow.

The bath, made portable.