{"id":68580,"date":"2018-07-23T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=68580"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:03:21","slug":"10-swimming-pools-designed-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/10-swimming-pools-designed-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"10 swimming pools designed by your favourite artists"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[10830,4871,508,5223,10831,5478,10832],"class_list":["post-68580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-alfredo-barsuglia","tag-david-hockney","tag-ed-ruscha","tag-elmgreen-dragset","tag-georges-braque","tag-james-turrell","tag-jorge-macchi"],"acf":{"main_category":139,"legacy":false,"subtitle":"Georges Braque, Keith Haring and James Turrell are just some of the artists who have turned their hands to elevating the summer bathing experience.","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"4","proportion":"natural"},"related_articles":[68584,67207,66866],"next_article":[68584],"content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BUaFHQ4lycm\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

With the summer season fully upon us, and the Berlin heat showing no signs of letting up any time soon,\u00a0we\u2019ve got swimming pools well and truly on the brain. Of course, n<\/span>ot all pools are made equal. You\u2019ve got your local lido, replete with screaming children and unidentified floating objects; you\u2019ve got the serious swimmer\u2019s swimming pool, with lane divides and designated speeds, and then you\u2019ve got the luxury\u00a0Schwimmbad \u2014<\/em>\u00a0the kind painstakingly designed by architects to perfectly punctuate its surroundings or, better still, dreamed up by a famous artists, enlisted to elevate an everyday activity to a (literally) immersive experience. Georges Braque, Keith Haring and Laurence Weiner are just some of the greats to have transformed the bathing experience with their talents. Take a look at the fruits of their labour below in our roundup of the ten best swimming pools masterminded by renowned artists.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

David Hockney, Swimming Pool at\u00a0The Roosevelt Hotel<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BWU223Rgg7Q\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

It\u2019s no secret that David Hockney is a fan of the swimming pool. His work abounds with pool imagery, regularly transporting viewers to the water\u2019s tile-lined edge \u00e0 la his emblematic work,\u00a0A Bigger Splash<\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>For any devoted fans of the British pop artist, the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles provides the next-level Hockney experience. Beneath its pool\u2019s bright blue waves lies a mural of curved blue lines, painted by the artist in 1988. Despite attempts by local officials to have the work covered up (in line with California\u2019s ban on painted pools), Hockney\u2019s\u00a0handiwork remains fully in tact to this day, marking the Roosevelt as an art lover\u2019s haven.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

James Turrell, Baker Pool<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bid4FM5l3pj\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

James Turrell\u2019s masterful experiments with luminosity make him one of the most Instagrammable artists out there; his signature works, consisting of entire rooms lit up in LED, drown visitors in light of every colour imaginable, making for an ideal photo opp. Experiencing his work IRL is a drastic contrast to seeing it flattened for a phone screen \u2014 as exemplified by his brief but brilliant foray into pool design for the Baker family estate in Connecticut. The private commission saw Turrell create one of his glorious light rooms, but with a crucial difference: about two metres of water. Sadly, the work is not accessible to the public \u2014 unless you’re happy to risk a “breaking and entering” misdemeanour. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Keith Haring, Carmine Street Mural<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BScicYDhOBh\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

On a blisteringly hot summer\u2019s day in 1987, famed artist-cum-activist Keith Haring held an all-day pool party at the Carmine Street Pool in Greenwich Village, NYC. Whilst Haring painted a cacophony of forms in a blue and yellow mural, legendary DJ Junior Vasquez brought decks and speakers to provide a soundtrack to the pool\u2019s visitors. Now known as the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, the pool still proudly displays Haring\u2019s mural, allowing local New Yorkers to enjoy a slice of pop art history.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Georges Braque, Les Poissons, Fondation Maeght<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BjrXZaBn9tX\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Housed in Fondation Maeght, a private foundation nestled on the French Riviera, is Poissons, <\/i>a hidden gem by Cubist Georges Braque. The shallow pool features a mosaic crafted from traditional tiles, embellished with large, abstract fish and the artist\u2019s signature. Here, the site-specific pool realises the foundation\u2019s vision of integrating art and architecture, as helmed by Catalan architect Josep Llu\u00eds Sert. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lawrence Weiner, Stretched As Tightly As Is Possible\/ (Satin) & (Petroleum Jelly)<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BhzXCbmg02W\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner has a way with words; his experiments with typography and language are displayed on books, buildings and, as of 2016, swimming pools. To coincide with the opening of an exhibition of Weiner’s work, collector Rosette Delug invited the artist to install a text work at the bottom of her pool. While the show is long over, the work still resides at the bottom of Delug’s pool – converting her morning swim into a private view of its own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Elmgreen & Dragset, Van Gogh’s Ear<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BCy3sMrQ2yQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

New York City has more than 60 public pools, but back in 2016 (a good year for pool art) one of them had a couple of crucial differences. Gargantuan installation\u00a0Van Gogh’s Ear<\/em>, by Berlin-based Scandinavian art duo Elmgreen & Dragset,\u00a0was crafted to mimic a garden pool flipped to an incongruous vertical angle above ground.\u00a0The upright, cyan blue sculpture towered beside Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, delighting and bewildering tourists in equal measure.\u00a0 Sadly,Van Gogh’s Ear\u00a0<\/em>has since finished its run\u2014 and\u00a0we don’t think that Fifth Avenue looks half as good.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Ed Ruscha, Studio City<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJ3JqXZAh-H\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Want a custom artist-designed pool of your own? We recommend you tap your creative family members for the purpose, just as Ed Ruscha’s brother did for his private pool in Studio City. The pop artist pulled out all the stops for his sibling, producing a large-scale text work in glistening white tiles. Resembling a registration form, with blank spaces to fill in, the piece is designed to grab swimmers’ attention with its large type-face and provoke questions about ownership and identity. A quick existential dive anyone?<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Alfredo Barsuglia, Social Pool<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BRG7lNvhAeO\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Unlike a lot of the pools on this list, Social Pool<\/em>, by\u00a0Viennese artist Alfredo Barsuglia,\u00a0was from its inception completely open to the public \u2014 if they could find it. Erected in 2014 in the south Californian desert, the humble\u00a0eleven-by-five-feet structure echoed the sparse desert in its stark minimalism. While its location was initially a secret, the pool became a miniature tourist attraction when Wikipedia published its coordinates. After considerable wear-and-tear, the pool was demolished but the debris remains, serving as a site of pilgrimage for\u00a0the art lovers campaigning for its reopening<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Jorge Macchi, Piscina<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/vByVDSHoRK\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Inspired by the pages of an address book, Jorge Macchi’s permanent installation has resided at modern art museum Inhotim, set in the Brazilian jungle, since 2009. Fully functional and open to the public, visitors to the vast outdoor gallery and botanical garden can cool off with a swim in Piscina<\/em>‘s azure waters, gliding back and forth from A to Z.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Pablo Picasso, Pool at Villa El Martinete<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BjgBfhwBBtK\/?utm_source=ig_embed","settings":{"width":"6"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Worried that your eight bedroom, palatial villa in the south of Spain doesn’t quite cut the mustard? You may well be right. Villa El Martinete, located in Marbella, sets a standard for true luxury with its covetable swimming pool hand-painted by Picasso. This level of ostentation doesn’t come cheap, with the villa and its figure-adorned pool previously listed at 15 million euros.<\/p>\n"}],"hero_title":""},"yoast_head":"\n10 swimming pools designed by your favourite artists 10 swimming pools designed by your favourite artists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/10-swimming-pools-designed-artists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 swimming pools designed by your favourite artists 10 swimming pools designed by your favourite artists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/10-swimming-pools-designed-artists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-23T08:41:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-01T09:03:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan Wallace\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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