If you don’t have a sauna, iron or aquarium at home, learn here what you can do with some books and what you cannot do with other books. Yes, it’s all about showing off how brilliant the ‘Read naked’ book is, but we honestly had some fun with this live show. That’s why we want to share it with you, so take a look.

Warning: because the book absorbs water it may take on a new colour (of coffee, for example) and it may grow mushrooms if you don’t dry the book well. So please take care.

This world-premier-live-event was hosted by bookstore van Stockum in the Hague, the Netherlands on 23th of November 2002. Thanks to Ilone’s mother, Guy Tavares and van Stockum!

After a presentation we held in Deventer in 2002, a girl suggested to make a bathrobe out of the ‘sauna-book paper’ (the amazing Neobond paper). Luckily we had a pile of printed papers left. Now we are the lucky owners of a real Sauna-proof-bathrobe, it’s hanging in our studio. Size M, perfect for in the sauna, the breakfast table or for vacation. Thank you Danielle for making this wonderful piece.

Leo Pusa won the World Championships Sauna Bathing for the 3rd time in a row

This time his winning time was 12 minutes and 10 seconds. All at a temperature of… 110 degrees Celsius. Before his final battle he had already been in a sauna three times during the competition. “A Swiss guy, who nearly got into final, told he can practice only once a week, he doesn’t have an own sauna. And he was quite surprised when I told him I practice mostly once a day, sometimes twice. That keeps me in a good physical condition – it’s not a big deal to beat those old men who don’t practice at all.”

Leo Pusa is practicing at his summer cottage place, very close to the city center of Helsinki. At the same area also the current Finnish President Tarja Halonen is spending her spare time at her own small hut. “Let’s see if I will get the invitation to the annual Celebration of the Independence after this!”, Leo wonders. So why he always wins? “I don’t think about anything during the game, and especially not about the game itself”, he explains for us.

Read more about our hero Leo Pusa in the read naked book.

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The World Champion Sauna Bathing-games are annually held at the city of Heinola in Finland.
visit the official website of the games
the world sauna championships at Wikipedia

First edition of the official CorelCup, the indoor football tournament for cultural wannabes. Participating teams: FC Burolamp, FC Coreldrol, FC Dumbar, FC Hansom, FK Lokaal 11, FK Lust, FC NLXL, FC Schwalbe, FC Type&Media, FC Underware and FC Unit1. Five software packages of CorelDraw were won by ‘the worst goalkeeper’, the craziest goal’, etc. First prize was not only a software package of the sponsor, but also a real cup including eternal fame. Well, eternal until the second edition of CorelCup.

Goldberg Institute, Berlin 2002. It was a warm evening, the 10th of May, and the Sauna party was organised to celebrate the release of our second type family, accompanied by the the sauna-proof book ‘Read naked’. To be sure we weren’t fooling around, everybody could test the sauna proof book himself inside a real sauna. The most exciting part was definitely not that parts of the book only appeared inside a very hot sauna, but the challenge to cool down after the sauna. You say: naked, bucket of water, small towel & then… hundreds of visitors you’ve got to pass outside the sauna. Now there you’ve got a personal challenge. The last visitors left at sunrise, making it another legendary party.

DJ Wout, aka Get-Yar-Body-Moving-DJ, aka Wout de Vringer, aka designer of the Dolly book, cruising the streets of Holland.

We write 15 September 2001. Our first font release was accompanied by the Dolly party. Photo-fund raising with half naked body-builders in a secured basement, 4 DJ’s in the library with a disco ball (‘Don’t you think such a ball is oldskool?’), some performances & one speech, tons of dog-flyers falling from heaven, the ‘It’s-okay-to-fall-asleep Relax Room’, the luxury edition of the Dolly book and of course the after party on the beach. What else should we say?