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Even the bathrooms are opulent in that uncanny, chain-restaurant way: part suburban shopping plaza, part Ancient Egyptian bathhouse, all backlit marble and echoing tile.

Zoé Blue M. on her paintings of women at bathhouses and how caring for her body has become a part of her practice as an artist.

Within a bathhouse, there are so many different rooms, with their own temperatures, made out of different things.

One of the earliest establishments I visited in L.A. was City Spa, a Russian bathhouse that has been operating for more than 70 years.

The bathhouse is the latest find to emerge from this extraordinary house.