You may not have heard of Gaius Maecenas, but as pool season unfolds like a fresh beach towel, take a moment to pay him homage. Not only did this deep-pocketed Roman aristocrat lavish his staggering ...

There is something uniquely refreshing and indulgent about bathing in the faded grandeur of an Art Deco swimming pool. BBC Designed shows you the world’s best. Eleven swimming pools were built in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On an achingly hot Tuesday in July last year, the pool at La Colombe d’Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in the south ...

Chan Wai-lap's two new works, at Art Basel Hong Kong and Oi! in North Point, encourage visitors to dally and find a sense of ...

Sixty years since David Hockney first plunged himself into the quiet magic of the swimming pool, purpose-built baths still continue to enchant Perhaps there was something in the water. But it didn’t ...

EDINBURGH — At the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, one country’s pavilion stood out. Presented by Aileen Sage Architects, the insightful and enjoyable offering from Australia was dedicated, as ...

In New York, London, and Berlin, artists frequently shell out big bucks for small studio spaces in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods they’ll soon be priced out of. In Miami, artist Nicolas Lobo has ...

When David Hockney moved to Los Angeles in 1964 it was the swimming pools that made the most vivid impression. He had noticed them from the air – thousands of small patches of bright blue. No ...

Plus, the art deco spa that’s ‘London’s oldest’ with Turkish baths, an indoor pool and affordable day passes AN ART deco swimming pool, previously named one of the best in the world, is on the site of ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

THE UK isn’t short of amazing swimming pools, with some dating back to the Victorian era. But one in the city centre of London remains relatively unknown – despite a multi-million campaign to reopen ...