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Natural Pools: Safe for Swimming?

We’ve been conditioned in the United States to think that the only safe water is water that has been sanitized by powerful chemicals and/or devices using ozone or ultraviolet light. In fact, it seems that our industry has promulgated a doctrine that we need to

Ripples #13

Compiled and Written by Lenny Giteck Flamboyant Brit FillsPool with Booze... Not long ago, Ripples wrote about a swimming pool at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that allegedly was filled with liquid chocolate. Of course, the item in Ripples immediately revealed this to be

Ripples #12

Compiled and written by Lenny Giteck Air France Sexy Pool SceneSymbolizes La Vie en Rose The backstory: He is in seat 8A on an Air France flight winging its way across the Atlantic; she's in 8B. They are both good-looking and fit - definitely in their prime. Even though they never met before boarding the aircraft, once in the air their eyes lock

The Artistry of ‘Painting’ with Stone

For the pond-building artist, stone is the paint — and how it is used can make or break the look of a watergarden. Choosing the perfect stone, however, is no guarantee of a beautiful outcome. That’s the realm where creativity and inspiration from

Ozone: Expanding Its Range

By Beth Hamil In the first part of this in-depth look at ozone, author Beth Hamil discussed its environmental benefits for energy consumption, water usage and general healthfulness. [To read Part One, click here.] In this installment, she turns to the many new aquatic applications the ozone industry is exploring. Ozone-system suppliers have made enormous efforts in recent years to develop and scale new systems for all sorts of aquatic

Art Appreciation, Day by Day

As I’ve mentioned before in this space, my education in landscape architecture pulled up lame when it came to instruction in art and art history. That shortfall has bothered me greatly as my career has progressed, but the silver lining is that I’ve been motivated to seek out sources I can use to

Remembering Mark Urban

By now you may have heard the news that Mark Urban, valve designer/manufacturer and gifted innovator in pool/spa technology, died in December of bone cancer. He was 70. The facts of his life have been covered in detail elsewhere, so instead of restating that information, I’d like to

Ripples #11

Compiled and written by Lenny Giteck Swimming Pools a FocusAt Coppola Winery Renowned movie director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola is blazing new trails in the winery business by including two swimming pools and other family entertainment features in his

Meeting and Fooling the Eye

Although we might not commonly think of watershaping and exterior design in this way, a great many of the details we shape are designed to fool the eye or somehow create illusions. Consider the pools that are made to appear so natural that they don’t seem to have been man-made — or vanishing edges that conjure the impression that

The Importance of Watershaping’s Color Palette

Interview by Lenny Giteck Judith Corona has a keen eye for color -- plus a rare ability to teach people how it works and how to use it to greatest effect. Corona is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles, and is on the faculty of UCLA Extension in the Architecture, Interior Design & Landscape Architecture Department. In addition, she teaches