Our Favorite Pools

New York Times

01-07-2025

At a Modernist house in Southampton, N.Y., conceived of by the designer Ward Bennett in the 1960s, a bluestone-lined pool nestled in the dunes. Read more here.
For her home in Tangier, Morocco, the art dealer Sarah Wheeler worked with the architect Cosimo Sestion on the pool, which sits below a rambling garden designed by the writer and botanist Umberto Pasti. Read more here.
A view of the black-bottomed pool and the bedroom of the writer Anaïs Nin's Los Angeles home, designed by the architect Eric Lloyd Wright. Read more here.
The lap pool at Utsav House, built by the architect Bijoy Jain in 2008 in Alibag, a cluster of coastal villages just outside of Mumbai, India. Read more here.
The tiles surrounding the poolside barbecue at the artist Katherine Bernhardt's home in St. Louis were inspired by a subway station in Brescia, Italy, that the artist Nathalie Du Pasquier transformed in collaboration with the ceramics company Mutina. Read more here.
The actress Julianne Moore and the director Bart Freundlich's house in Montauk, N.Y., overlooks a meadow of wildflowers and a modernist pool. Read more here.
Ferns, philodendrons and flowering rose grape engulf a pool designed by the landscape architect Isabel Duprat at Casa Rampa, a house in São Paulo, Brazil, built in 2015 by the local architecture firm Studio MK27. Read more here.
The financial adviser and art collector Ilan Cohen's home on Fire Island, N.Y. The blue chair near the pool is by the artist Thomas Barger. Read more here.
A cantilevered pool forms part of Cactus Dorée, a home nestled in the hills near Monte Carlo. Read more here.
The Long Island pool house of the late fashion executive George Kolasa and the sales executive Justin Tarquinio was forklifted from a neighboring plot where it had been erected in the late 18th or early 19th century as a shed for a dairy farm. Read more here.
The rooftop pool at Casa Valle, the architect Alberto Kalach's family weekend home in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, has hammocks between concrete partitions that create small, shaded lounge areas. Read more here.
The infinity pool of the writers Annalena McAfee and Ian McEwan's home in the hills of southwest England looks out over a wildflower meadow and lake. Read more here.
Palm trees and other tropical plants line the pool of a Miami Beach home renovated by the Italian-born architect Fabrizio Casiraghi. Read more here.