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 fortune on young artists (his surname is literally a ...

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 of France was, as always, 27 degrees. The ...

Art does not always want to be seen – at least, not easily. Since the 1960s, some of the most memorable works of art have been hidden in remote places, or knowable only through photographs. The latest such elusive treasure is a swimming pool created in ...

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 the blurb on the wall stated, to “a bridge between ...

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 Big Apple in 1936, when a bathing programme, launched ...

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 desirable Hollywood property was complete without one.

Millions have been to the converted pool in the depressed town of Roubaix since it opened as a museum. Now a major expansion secures its future When La Piscine Museum opened in one of the poorest towns in France’s depressed northern post-industrial belt ...

AN ART deco swimming pool, previously named one of the best in the world, is on the site of an old prison and features grand architecture. The Mounts Baths in Northampton were dubbed “world class” by the BBC in 2017, sitting alongside other historic ...