Journal

Designing the Oblique Sauna

A note from our founder, Mark, on how the Oblique sauna came to be: "VIM began with a very simple idea: to offer beautiful, traditional saunas that reminded people of sculpture and architecture. What if a sauna could look a...

"Sitting inside a tree" with Nordic Night

Roughly thirty minutes south of Lake Superior, you'll find a large workshop full of people crafting saunas, as they have for many decades. The VIM team recently visited the workshop for a sauna session in the Oblique. After several...

Building the VIM Cubist Sauna in Portland, Oregon

Our Cubist sauna has been in development for over two years, with two fully finished saunas now completed in Portland, Oregon. The cube shape gives a lot of flexibility with install location, which was important for our second unit which...

VIM: Made in USA

We are proud to build our saunas in two American facilities. Our Bezier and Cubist saunas are made in Austin, Texas, and our Angled flat pack sauna is made in Ashland, Wisconsin. We believe that a structure like a sauna...

From Japan to Oregon: Nakamoto Forestry

For our first two Cubist saunas built in Portland, Oregon, we selected Nakamoto Forestry shou sugi ban cladding for the exterior. It's an absolutely stunning look. We love this ancient process of torching wood to make it an...