The story
of a water object

Rocean was born where naval architecture, cold immersion, and the culture of exceptional interiors meet.

The first intuition was not a product. It was a standard.

The idea appeared at the crossing of two worlds: the discipline of objects built for water, and the physical clarity of cold immersion. Rocean began with the conviction that this ritual deserved an object of the same calibre as the spaces it would inhabit.

Not a piece of recovery equipment placed inside an interior, but a permanent architectural presence: quiet, precise, and worthy of residences, hotels, yachts, and private wellness rooms where every visible detail matters.

Antoine Richer with production team reviewing a Rocean bath in the workshop

The line of a hull, applied to cold immersion

Before Rocean, our founder, Antoine Richer, designed and built sailing catamarans. That heritage remains visible in every bath: continuous surfaces, softened edges, structural composite, and an uncompromising relationship with water.

In naval architecture, elegance is never decorative. It is the result of proportion, material intelligence, resistance, and precision. Rocean carries that same discipline into the ritual of cold exposure.

Rocean bath 3D design on laptop with technical drawings in workshop

A technical object composed as one piece

From the first drawings, the bath was treated as a vessel rather than an appliance. The shell, the water, the thermal system, and the service architecture had to belong to the same design language.

The composite body, hydraulics, electronics, cooling architecture, water treatment, and access points are developed together, so the complexity disappears behind a calm monolithic form.

Rocean bath transparent view showing integrated systems and thermal architecture

Antoine Richer and The Rocean Legacy

Antoine Richer is a naval architect. His work has always concerned water, structure, balance, and the exacting craft of objects built to endure.

With Rocean, that savoir-faire is expressed at another scale: not a vessel made to cross the sea, but a vessel made to master water within an architectural space. The same attention to line, composite construction, hidden systems, and long service life defines the bath.

Three principles. Non-negotiable.

Conviction

Discomfort is a method.

Cold is useful because it asks something from the body. Applied with precision, it becomes a recovery tool, not a trend.

Mission

Make the practice permanent.

A serious daily ritual needs an object built for residences, hotels, sport facilities, yachts, and the people who use them.

Promise

Built like a yacht.

Composite structure, integrated systems, and serviceable architecture: designed to remain in the room for years.

Leading Team
Antoine Richer

Founder & CEO.

Michal Dunajski

Co-founder — Technology, Systems.

Stefano Di Panfilo

Co-founder — Brand, Operations, Strategy.

Paloma Bordes

Head of finance.

Francois Perus

Naval architecture advisor.

Roko Rogulj

Head of composite.