Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming
PhotographerMelba Levickhas published over twenty photographic books and her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and magazine articles in Europe and America. Much of her work reflects urban and architectural themes. She is based in Paris and Los Angeles.Cleo Baldonis design director for Galper/Baldon Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in Venice, California. She has designed over 3000 pools in Southern California, and she is credited with the development of the lap pool, and holds a design patent for the contour spa with ergonomic underwater seating.Ib Melchioris a best-selling author of more than a dozen novels, as well as a motion-picture and television director and script writer. He is co-author with his wife, Cleo Baldon, ofSteps & Stairways(Rizzoli, 1989).