Luxury, calm and voluptuousness…

Facing the sea, this rectangle with reflections combining petrol blue and cloudy skies stretches out serenely evoking peace: it's time for an "invitation to the voyage", as Baudelaire once put it.

 

The everyday poetic charm of a pool

Like a runway allowing our dreams to take flight, the long pool launches us towards the sea…

The pool is a ramp, a runway allowing our dreams to take flight … its horizontal plane guides the eye towards the breathtaking spectacle of a sea caught between Norman and Breton cross-currents. It seems to comply with timeless geometric rules, those used to build the Greek temples and create the subtlest poetic charm. Beyond a desire for bathing and shared moments, this Piscinelle pool primarily represents a quest for beauty, like an aesthetic promise made for its own sake, echoing the great Théophile Gautier's absolute requirement of creating "art for art's sake".

Customer feedback
"Every day, I get up and treat myself to a few moments gazing at the pool facing the sea … their colours often match and it's so beautiful."

Pools have the power to slip through our fingers; they are imbued with a unique sense of fantasy and seemingly eternal poetry. We'd still be singing the praises of the pools of the Alhambra, the fountains of Versailles and the Baths of Caracalla … and this pool that thrusts out towards the sea conjures fragments of this collective imagination that change with the viewer's mood.

 

Blending in with nature

Seamless integration. That's the priority for a Piscinelle pool that has minimal impact on its direct surroundings and blends in with its natural environment.

One of the current chief concerns for any pool project is to ensure it meets requirements in terms of sustainability and protection of the immediate and global environment.

In terms of protecting the land, the aluminium structure developed by Piscinelle limits any impact on soil, since only minimal concrete is used to create the base on which the structure rests. Moreover, aluminium is a non-toxic metal for soil, with no chemical processes or plastic in contact with the earth.

A further advantage of the Piscinelle structure is that it only requires a very short excavation hole. This feature, aimed at blending the pool in with its natural environment and limiting its impact on the land, ensures very little disruption to the local ecosystem and minimal excavation.

In the late summer light, the pool water is a stunning emerald green.

In terms of more general environmental issues, the aluminium used in Piscinelle pools is fully recyclable and recycled, thus minimising the use of fossil resources.

These concerns are by no means trivial in the current climate and addressing them means allowing the pool's poetry to resonate even longer and enabling visitors to this pool perched on a cliff somewhere between Brittany and Normandy to be carried away by Baudelaire's nomadic, passionately whispered words:

For me, damp suns
In disturbed skies
Share mysterious charms
With your treacherous eyes
As they shine through tears.

Invitation to the Voyage – The Flowers of Evil 1857 – Charles Baudelaire

A film set, an artist's canvas … the composition is perfect in its balance and sophistication.

 

Technical details regarding this luxury pool with a sea view:

 

Take a look at the full photo report on this pool with a view of the English Channel (photo credit: Fréd Pieau):

Nestled in its delightful green setting overlooking the English Channel, this Piscinelle pool blends in seamlessly with its surroundings.

The art of composition … the eye of the photographer and bather endlessly reframes and restructures the scene, each time creating a new pool, a personal work of art.

To the left, the choice of thick grass complements the sometimes tumultuous, changing skies, while to the right several levels of ipe decking provide multiple spaces to be used at different times of the day. A simple and perfectly proportioned pool takes centre stage.

The subtle shades of colour achieved with the slate-grey liner echo the English Channel below … both on warm days and gusty days filled with salty sea spray!

Luxury is choosing simplicity over a descent into complexity…

Luxury, calm and voluptuousness … Baudelaire's words chime perfectly, as if written specifically for this pool build set in an extra-special spot.

A break from reading: one possible title for this work. Fred Pieau 2020.

The top step of the submerged step unit includes wooden slats concealing the pool's automatic safety cover. This space-saving, discrete solution just goes to show that luxury lies in the details.

The shades of the pool echo those of an often turbulent grey-green sea that dances to the rhythm of the tides.

Beyond a desire for bathing and shared moments, this Piscinelle pool primarily represents a quest for beauty.

Like a runway allowing our dreams to take flight, the long pool launches us towards the sea…

Between the lofty pines and the well-tended shrubs, this luscious garden seems to act as an interface between man and nature, between imposed aesthetic choices and those granted by nature.

Folded away beneath the top step of the submerged tanning ledge, the pool's slatted safety cover is as discreet as it is effective.

In the late summer light, the pool water is a stunning emerald green.

The cultivated mass of small round shrubs contrasts sharply with the purity of the pool's lines. This contrast successfully highlights both the landscaping and the pool…

Crystal-clear water with deep glints provided by the slate-grey shade of the liner.

Spectacular. That's the word that comes to mind when looking at this image. The pool appears to flow into the sea and the clouds too seem eager to leave the earth to join the open ocean.

Between the cloudy sky and wild sea, a small slice of humanity is perched on the cliff, emphasising a particularly French take on the art of living.

The crystal-clear water with emerald glints both guides and transports … is swimming an art?

Part of the pool is above ground and here is its far end which stands out against this backdrop shaped by the passing centuries.

Designed to be ultra-simple, the pool resembles a swimming lane, giving it a poise and elegance akin to a haughtily raised chin.

Humbled by the sea, one can only imagine the words exchanged between these two living expanses of calm under the same damp sky.

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Piscinelle, specialist pool installer/builder in Calvados

Piscinelle is a swimming pool specialist operating in Caen, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Lisieux, Vire, Normandie, Bayeux, Ifs, Mondeville, Mézidon Vallée d'Auge, Ouistreham, Souleuvre en Bocage, Falaise, Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, Honfleur, Colombelles, Condé-en-Normandie, Livarot-Pays-d'Auge, Thue et Mue, Blainville-sur-Orne, Valdallière, Dives-sur-Mer, Douvres-la-Délivrande, Cormelles-le-Royal, Fleury-sur-Orne, Giberville, Pont-l'Évêque, Trouville-sur-Mer, Noues de Sienne, Courseulles-sur-Mer, Bretteville-sur-Odon, Argences, Touques, Le Hom, Verson, Isigny-sur-Mer, Cabourg, Deauville, Troarn, Biéville-Beuville, Luc-sur-Mer, Moult-Chicheboville, Démouville, Villers-Bocage, Hermanville-sur-Mer, Le Molay-Littry, Carpiquet. 

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Last updated on 18/11/2022

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