SWIMMING POOLS

Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming for true for moreand more people. So, for the first time in this series of lifestyle books,we are devoting a volume to swimming pools and everything related to thesubject: pool houses, bathing spaces, saunas and hammams, and also gardendesigns, materials used for cladding the pool, terraces, furniture and soon. This book is divided into three chapters. The first section concentrates on outdoor swimming pools and pool houses.A great deal of attention is paid to the harmonious integration with thegarden and surrounding landscape, so this section features gardendesigners and landscape architects as well as builders of swimming pools. Part II is devoted to indoor swimming pools. The greatest challenge hereis the architecture of the house and the swimming-pool area itself. Thereis also a strong focus on the finishing of the walls, floors and thematerials used to build the pool. Finally, the third section deals with spaces that have increasinglybecome a natural extension of the (indoor) swimming pool in our modernlifestyle culture, such as bathing spaces, saunas and hammams andcold-water baths. A large number of inspiring creations are featured,comprehensively illustrating modern trends.