• Apartamento Magazine
  • issue 35, Spring/Summer 2025

Hair washing in the Chinese boudoir

Clouds of hot steam drift through the bathhouse. A young Chinese woman, her eyes teasing with innocence and longing, wades through a pool of bath water. She swims up to another woman, grinning as she turns away shyly, pulling a carved jade hairpin from her long black hair, letting it cascade with a dramatic flourish….

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