Recovery space — steam sauna, warm light and cedar
Recovery across Europe

The art
of recovery.
City by city.

Maison Infrared is a curated guide to infrared sauna, red light therapy, cold plunge, and contrast therapy spaces across Europe. Not a shop. A reference point.

4City guides
40+Curated spaces
2Curated stays
City guides About the project
What this is

We weren't
designed
for this.

Artificial light. Stable temperatures. Constant comfort. The modern environment is extraordinarily convenient — and quietly at odds with how the body works. We evolved with variation: heat and cold, darkness and dawn, exertion and stillness. The absence of those signals is not neutral.

The body evolved with light, heat, cold, and movement. Maison Infrared explores how these elements are being reintroduced into modern life.

Infrared sauna, red light therapy, cold exposure, and contrast therapy are not new ideas dressed in wellness language. They are deliberate reintroductions of stimulus the body already knows. This site maps where that is happening well — from city-based recovery studios to curated stays and the spaces we are helping to build.

The goal is simple: to understand how we recover better, and where that happens.

Live now
City recovery guides
Barcelona, Paris, London, Madrid. Curated maps of the spaces worth visiting in each city.
Live now
Curated stays
Hand-picked properties where recovery is built into the experience. The first stay is in Mallorca.
In development
Maison Infrared spaces
We work with hotels, private members clubs, and wellness spaces to design and integrate infrared, cold plunge, and contrast environments. Get in touch if you're building something.
Inside the studio All interviews
Coming soon
The first founder interview is on its way.
Coming soon
Conversations with the people building recovery spaces.
Coming soon
Why they built it. What they've learned. What's next.
The letter

Recovery,
considered.

New city guides, studio openings, founder conversations, and the thinking behind the project. Written for people who take recovery seriously.

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