It is a status symbol of both luxury, and pleasure. The indoor swimming pool still represents, for the complexity of the achievement, a height of comfort and technology. They are places of affectation and therefore of dreams, of memory. The relationship with nature is abolished. It is the magic of invention that creates a place that is, above all, in the mind, dominatingly introducing itself within the home, projecting signs of well being. One can draw from past history up until the memorable events of the Roman baths, or return to the muffled silence of a world made exclusively of water to create a space for meeting within oneself, able to be shared only in the privacy of a home. |