WaterShapes
Meridian Tile (Phoenix, Ariz.) makes modular tile for in-pool barstools and tabletops. The modular tile for barstools is available in glass and porcelain mosaics, sized for 12, 16 and 18-inch Sonotube columns. Table top mosaics are sized for 36-inch tables. The company’s line of barstool and table tops come in a wide range of colors. To learn more, click here.
Biodesign (Farmingdle, N.Y.) offers an alternative method of swimming pool construction that features a structural coating, consisting of resins and quartz sand molded over an EPDM liner, eliminating the need for structural concrete. The pools can be constructed in a variety of sand colors with molded beach entry edges that blend into surrounding hardscape. To learn more, click here.
Aqua Bond (Long Beach, Calif.) introduces the new AquaStitch SP-1238 Stress Proof Stitch concrete crack repair staples system, designed to permanently stabilize and repair structural cracks in concrete, gunite and shotcrete swimming pools and pool decks. Placed every 12 inches along the length of the fracture, the stitching system provides load transfer and resistance against the structural pool crack growing larger. To learn more, click here.
Drakeley Pool Co. takes on a broad range of projects, from massive commercial installations to super high-end residential projects. The company also refurbishes historic watershapes, a discipline that requires careful adherence to the original design. Featured here, Bill Drakeley shares a simple gem of a project designed by 20th Century modernist master, Marcel Breuer.
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To the ancient civilizations of the Yucatan Peninsula, bodies of water known as cenotes were both essential in daily life and worshiped as the watery portals to the netherworld. Today, these remarkable natural bodies of sub-surface water remain objects of enchantment, and great places to take a dip.
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