Reflections on the pool
Subtitle: California designs for swimming
By: text by Cleo Baldon & Ib Melchior ; photographs by Melba Levick.
Contributors: Melchior, Ib.; Levick, Melba.
Publisher: Rizzoli; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Swimming pools.
Description: Reflections on the Pool presents 40 perfect pools in 100 brilliant color photographs. These include the vibrant, Mexican-style architectural design of Ricardo Legorreta and the avant-garde, sensational creations of John Lautner, and illustrate the theories of the renowned landscape designers Thomas Church and Isabelle Greene.

Each section of the book features a type of pool, or an element of pool design. Pools imitating nature, lap pools, architectural or highly ornamented pools are discussed in detail, as well as historic pools such as Hearst's Neptune Pool at San Simeon or Thomas Church's vanguard kidney-bean-shaped design of 1948, and other early California examples that set precedents for the pool, including the influence of Hollywood on its popularity.