Hasta La Ideas

Former banker Jay Dweck enjoys swimming, collecting violins and being rich. After earning his fortune on the Street, the former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley exec decided to splash out on a pool that would combine these passions.

Dweck contacted award-winning landscape architecture and masonry firm Cipriano Landscape Design, a New-Jersey-based outfit that recently added custom-designed swimming pools to their repertoire. The “exact replica in scale of a 1700s era Stradivarius violin with all of its detail and intricacies” that they came up with, in accordance with Dweck’s wishes, is just nuts; the firm describes it as “one of the most complex pool designs and installations within the whole design and build industry.”

First off, look at the amount of detail and AutoCADding that went into just the tiles, which are translucent glass and number nearly 500,000:

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