Richard Frinier's Daydream Collection
The Out Crowd
July 1, 2003
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For one Beverly Hills mansion, he created a mill pond with a waterwheel. For a couple whose taste in art was global, ethnic and colorful, he was inspired by the work of Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta to design “the only pool I know of ever plastered red in the United States.” Tisherman, whose water features start at $150,000, specializes in difficult sites. “I’ve built pools off the side of a slope where there is no slope in the Hollywood Hills, Tennessee, and Puerto Vallarta,” he says. “I have two pools sitting on piles at the Jersey shore. In Napa, a house is cantilevered off the mountain with nothing in the backyard except air, and we’re going to be putting a pool there.” (Click image to enlarge); function voidFunc() { } voidFunc(); "An infinity-edge pool in New Jersey - by David Tisherman")
“Water is nothing more than a reflective surface, so if it’s used properly, it takes on a dynamic of color, of light, of sound, of movement,” he adds. “It has the qualities of the surrounding area. A gentle breeze over water creates an incredible amount of color: reflections and refractions. Bounce light off water, and you create wonderful visual images on adjacent objects.” (Click image to enlarge)
Along with partners Brian Van Bower and Skip Phillips, Tisherman founded the Genesis 3 Design School, which he calls “probably the only educational tool in the entire pool industry.” Pool designers, architects, and builders from around the world gather for conferences to learn about design concepts, structural and hydraulic engineering, art history, vanishing-edge design, soil issues, and other specialized topics.
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