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Indoor pool with walls and floor in veined Carrara marble slabs, a Michelessi creation

Since 1976

Swimming pools
clad in stone

Infinity edges, Roman steps, Carrara marble and travertine cladding: water framed by natural stone, made to measure in our Aprilia workshop.

The excavation in the rock on the cliff above the sea, by night: the basin hewn from living stone, travertine blocks stacked nearby
The travertine cladding laid slab by slab: floor and walls dressed in pale stone with tight joints
The infinity edge refined toward the sea: coping stones aligned to a knife edge, the brass channel glinting
Water entering from the brass inlet: the basin half full, the travertine glowing amber beneath the water
The pool full at sunset: water flush with the rim, mirroring the amber sky above the sea

The birth of a pool — a Michelessi vision

From rock
to water

Scroll slowly: five frames, from the excavation to the sunset.

The pool is born

From living rock,a mirror of sky

Thus a Michelessi pool comes into being: stone framing water.

Water — a Michelessi vision

Stone
meets the sea

01 Night opens on the water’s edge: the sheet falls from the travertine wall and black marble steps cross the basin.

02 The camera glides towards the open sea: the veined black copings stretch away, submerged lights set the floor alight in gold.

03 The sheet of water keeps falling on the travertine: the basin widens into the night and the submerged lights stay lit on the black stone all the way to the sea.

Keep scrolling — the scene follows you

Vision 01 — Our design studio

Water that touches
the sky

ROMAN TRAVERTINE · VANISHING EDGE · BURNISHED BRASS

Design vision: an infinity pool flush with the sunset sky, Roman travertine coping and a lit brass lamp grazing the stone

The edge disappears and the water carries on into the sunset: no boundary, only a line of travertine holding the horizon. In this vision of our design studio the Roman stone, marked by its natural cavities, gathers the last light like wet sand; a brass lamp grazes it while the hills fade beyond. It is the project of a pool conceived for a single hour of the day — the one in which the sky comes down to look at itself.

Vision 02 — Our design studio

A pool that guards
a treasure of gold

GOLD MOSAIC · GOLD-VEINED BLACK MARBLE · BRASS TRIM

Design vision: a nocturnal indoor pool with an illuminated golden mosaic floor beneath vaults of gold-veined black marble

At night the hall falls dark and the pool lights up from below: the golden mosaic, lit beneath the waterline, turns the basin into an open casket. Vaults of black, gold-veined marble gather the reflections and return them like an upturned sky, while a brass trim holds the border between stone and water. It is a vision of our design studio: the night swim imagined as a ceremony.

Our works

The pool, sculpted
from start to finish

Look at a pool by Michelessi and you will see water behave differently: it settles, turns into a mirror, slips over the edge in silent cascades. This is the effect of natural stone worked to the rule of art. For years our Aprilia workshop has been creating marble pools from start to finish: the edge, the steps, the interior cladding and even the floor, conceived for spectacular scenic effect. Every element is born of bespoke marble craftsmanship, the trade our company has practised in Italy since 1976.

In this collection you will find Carrara marble becoming a pool basin, travertine curving into overflow edges and Roman steps, and then serpentine, slate, Giallo Santa Cecilia, Grigio Kenya, Grigio Carnico: stones chosen slab by slab, shaped to the design and laid with millimetric precision. The advantage of marble in a pool is a tangible one: it lasts forever and will never demand the upkeep of ordinary liners. Natural stone passes through the seasons without losing its character; if anything, it matures in beauty.

Every work is designed by our expert technicians around your wishes, for a unique creation of great constructive value: overflow and cascade edges, submerged sun decks, whirlpool baths, inlaid floors, safety systems built into the stone. The twenty-four photographs that follow tell the story of this Italian craft, one by one, each with a tale of its own.

Infinity pool with small cascade and white pebble overflow channel, Michelessi marble craftsmanship

Infinity edge

The Overflow Edge Amid White Pebbles

The camera glides low across the water and catches the instant the surface slips over the edge: a small, continuous, almost silent cascade sliding into a collection channel lined with white pebbles. It is this contrast that guides the eye — the candour of the polished stones against grey-toned stone paving, the warm sand-coloured coping framing the turquoise of the basin. All around, the garden rises gently up the slope, and the pool seems to rest in the landscape with the naturalness of things conceived well. Every element is born of the bespoke stoneworking that distinguishes Michelessi: the profile of the overflow, the level of the channel, the cut of the slabs that trace the perimeter. This is Italian craftsmanship applied to water — invisible technique, theatrical effect. In a Michelessi pool the collection system does not hide; it becomes decoration: the white pebbles turn into a miniature shoreline, a luminous border between the basin and the rest of the garden. If you imagine for your home a pool that unites engineering and beauty, this detail reveals the method: nothing is left to chance, everything is drawn so the eye finds only harmony.

Modern rectangular pool with marble infinity edge and linear steps, a Michelessi creation

Marble edge

Water Geometry Between the Columns

A long blade of azure water cuts across the patio and runs toward the green: this rectangular pool lives on simple, almost absolute lines — and for that very reason it demands flawless execution. The marble infinity edge draws the perimeter with millimetric precision, while below, the linear staircase measures out the descent in orderly steps, visible through the water like the lines of a musical score. Around it, paving in the warm tones of pale stone reflects the sun and converses with the columns of the house in a scene of Mediterranean stillness; a band of white pebbles closes the composition on the garden side. It is here that the hand of Michelessi reveals itself: in bespoke marble work that renders the design more rigorous, softer to the touch and enduring through time. A pool lined in natural stone does not fear the years — it keeps its character season after season, without the compromises of synthetic finishes. If you are seeking a basin of pure proportions, capable of transforming your outdoor space into an architecture of water, this project shows how modern the stoneworker's art can be while remaining faithful to the material.

Pool with lowered cascade edge for water collection, marble coping and wooden deck, Michelessi

Stone and wood

The Edge That Becomes a Waterfall

The scene opens onto an intimate garden, sheltered by a long wall clad in coursed stone that stands like a theatre backdrop. Before it, the pool: the lowered edge lets the water slip beyond the rim of the basin, a discreet waterfall feeding the collection system and granting the surface that perfect, mirror-like calm. Worked stone frames the turquoise water, while all around the wooden deck adds a warm, almost domestic note to the rigour of the design. It is the meeting of two materials that exalt each other: wood that ages with grace, and marble that does not age at all. In this balance lies the Michelessi philosophy — every pool is a tailored project, made in Italy, where bespoke marble work resolves the technical details — the gradients, the joints, the waterline — and transforms them into beauty. The result is a space that invites slowness: the boughs of the trees, the rooftops rising beyond the wall, the light changing on the water. If you long for a garden where the water seems suspended, this is the language of stone made to speak.

Detail of a Roman pool staircase in grey serpentine marble with concave and convex forms, Michelessi

Grey serpentine

A Roman Staircase in Grey Serpentine

The lens drops until it almost touches the water and discovers a jewel of submerged geometry: the Roman staircase, its steps in grey serpentine marble fanning open beneath the surface. Circular forms, concave and convex, chase one another like petals of stone, and the light filtering through the water sets them alight with shifting green reflections. The curved rim of the basin, in worked stone with a softened profile, embraces the composition and separates it from the terracotta paving, which brings the warmth of tradition into the scene. Every step is a unique piece: shaping serpentine to curves this precise requires expert hands, machines guided with patience, and that intelligence of gesture that belongs to the finest stoneworking tradition of Italy. It is the Michelessi speciality — bespoke marble work for pools, where even the most technical element, an entry staircase, becomes sculpture. Descending into the water on these steps is a small daily ritual: cool stone underfoot, a curve that accompanies each stride. If you dream of a pool with a classical heart and impeccable execution, this detail shows how far material can go when it meets true mastery.

Outdoor marble hydromassage mini pool with cascade jet and integrated lighting, Michelessi stonework

Natural stone

An Open-Air Marble Spa Pool

Set against a wall of stone with horizontal veining, the outdoor mini pool stretches out like a private bath under the open sky. Its dark interior lining lends the water an elegant, almost nocturnal depth, while the pale stone rim draws the perimeter with sobriety. The cascade jet, served by a steel structure curving over the water, promises the pleasure of hydromassage; the lighting system, integrated into the basin, kindles the evening with calibrated reflections. Submerged seats wait along the sides, conceived for lingering rather than swimming: this is a pool to be lived in conversation, at day's end, when the light falls low across the stone. All around, pale paving and the green of the garden complete a picture of measure and balance. Michelessi brings to these intimate dimensions the same care as its grandest works: bespoke marble craftsmanship, precise cuts, details that are not seen but felt. It is the art of the stoneworker turning daily wellbeing into architecture — a basin of stone that fears neither time nor season, awaiting you each day with the same composure.

Raised pool with transparent glass wall and grey stone cladding, a Michelessi project

Stone and glass

A Crystal Wall Upon the Water

There is a moment, looking at this pool, when the water seems suspended in mid-air: it is the effect of the glass wall that opens a transparent breach in the raised volume of the basin. Through the crystal you read the submerged steps, the shading blues, the dancing light; and the wall is not mere spectacle, for it allows the flow of water for collection and recirculation, uniting technique and wonder in a single design gesture. The rest of the basin is dressed in grey stone laid in regular slabs, set to a tight rhythm that frames the turquoise; at the foot of the volume, a bed of dark pebbles gathers the overflow, while the wooden deck and a screen of vertical slats warm the scene. It is a project in which every material plays its part: glass for lightness, stone for solidity, water for movement. Michelessi signs works like this with its own bespoke stoneworking — that Italian craftsmanship capable of bending matter to a design without betraying its nature. If you seek a pool that is also a work of architecture, here you see what happens when the artisan meets audacity.

Travertine-clad pool with cascade edge and raised circular whirlpool spa, Michelessi

Travertine

Travertine and Whirlpool Among the Olives

Olive trees form the curtain and the countryside falls away to the horizon: in the foreground, the raised circular whirlpool spa seethes with white foam, set into travertine like an ancient spring. Just beyond, the pool stretches its green-water surface to the cascade edge, where the waterline slips over the margin into its collection system, opening the view onto the landscape. Everything here speaks the language of travertine: the paving that surrounds the basin, the lining of the pool, the shaped circular rim of the whirlpool. It is a stone that seems born to live in the sun — warm in tone, pleasing underfoot, able to bind architecture to the land around it. The two-basin composition — the circle of wellbeing and the rectangle of swimming — is orchestrated with the wisdom of those who have worked stone for generations: Michelessi attends to every radius and every joint with its bespoke marble work. It is the Mediterranean soul of the stoneworker's art: matter, light, water and silence. If you imagine your summers measured by the discreet sound of a waterfall, this image is its promise.

Raised pool clad in slate with wooden decking and steps, a Michelessi creation

Slate

A Slate Monolith in the Green

Like a monolith reclining in the garden, the raised pool proudly shows its flanks clad in slate: a stone of deep, tactile grey that absorbs the light and returns elegance. The basin rises from the ground with architectural resolve, and wood accompanies it everywhere: the decking that wraps around it, the broad stairway climbing to the waterline with generous steps, drawn for sitting as much as for ascending. Above, the pale-blue water lies placid, sheltered by a white wall and a screen of vegetation that closes the scene like a secret garden; three dark vases set the rhythm along the band of lawn. The dialogue between slate and wood is the heart of this project: the cool and the warm, the eternal and the living. It takes true mastery to clad an above-ground volume in natural stone while keeping the joints orderly and the edges perfect: this is the bespoke stonework, made in Italy, that Michelessi brings to every pool. The result is a scenographic presence that turns the garden into architecture. If you desire a basin that is also habitable sculpture, this project points the way.

Pool lined in Santa Cecilia yellow marble with rounded steps and travertine coping, Michelessi

Giallo Santa Cecilia

Santa Cecilia Gold Beneath the Waterline

The water is so limpid that the lining seems to surface: Santa Cecilia yellow marble dresses the entire basin and its broad rounded steps, which descend into the water in soft curves, as if drawn by the current itself. The golden tones of the stone kindle beneath the surface, flecked by the shadows of the ripples, while the pale travertine coping frames the scene with its warm, porous weave. Beyond the edge, split-stone paving and a rustic low wall bind the pool to the garden in a material continuity that breathes of the countryside. It is a project proving how welcoming a marble-lined pool can be: no artificial colours, only natural stone conversing with the water and exalting its transparency. Shaping curved steps in Santa Cecilia marble, joining them to the floor, laying travertine along the rim: every passage demands the expert hand that Michelessi devotes to bespoke marble work, in the finest tradition of the stoneworker's craft. On a surface such as this, time is not an enemy but an ally. If you seek water with reflections of gold, this creation shows you how it is born.

Indoor marble hydromassage tub with square lines, marble floor and integrated lighting, Michelessi

Marble for interiors

A Marble Whirlpool, Light from Below

The light is born from the water: in the silence of this indoor space, the hydromassage tub glows from its depths, a green-blue radiance rising to the surface and reflecting off the marble slabs all around. The lines are minimal and squared, almost monastic: the wide stone rim, the clean steps that negotiate the change in level, the marble floor that continues up the wall, where slabs of delicate veining clothe the entire room. A green plant, the only organic presence, keeps watch from the corner like a discreet sentinel. This is wellbeing according to stone: no excess, no superfluous decoration — only noble material, water in motion, and integrated lighting that turns evening into theatre. To build a whirlpool entirely in marble means governing thicknesses, gradients and systems within a geometry that admits no imprecision: it is the terrain where Michelessi's bespoke marble work gives its best, with the patience and rigour of pieces handcrafted in Italy. Every slab is cut for its exact place, every edge finished to perfection. If you dream of a private spa with the calm of a cloister, this image holds its atmosphere.

Pool with child-safety system and retractable glass parapet, light stone coping, Michelessi

Bespoke safety

The Pool That Watches Over the Little Ones

At first glance it is a pool of serene lines: emerald-green water, pale stone coping, vegetation softening the perimeter and a white fence guarding the intimacy of the garden. But the true protagonist of this project is invisible: a child-safety system with a retractable glass parapet, electronically operated. When needed, the transparent barrier rises to defend the waterline; when the family gathers at the pool's edge, it vanishes without a trace, returning the pool to its clean line. The channels that receive its movement run discreetly along the paving, integrated into the stone with tailored precision. It is proof that safety and elegance do not exclude one another: they are designed together, from the very first drawing. This is how Michelessi approaches every project — bespoke stoneworking in the service of real life, with the pragmatism of a workshop that thinks of those who will live the pool every day. The technology hides; the material remains in view. If you desire water that is beautiful to behold and serene to live with — even with little ones running along its edge — this project speaks directly to you.

Indoor pool in Apuan marble, staircase clad in grey-veined marble from the Apuan Alps, Michelessi

Apuan marble

The Apuan Marble Staircase

It could be the entrance to a submerged temple: the staircase descends toward the basin in wide, solemn steps, entirely clad in Apuan marble whose grey veins run on the diagonal like petrified rain. Behind it, the great wall of this indoor pool is a single symphony of veined slabs, matched along the natural movement of the stone: raking light crosses them and reveals their depth, as if they were waves standing still. Above, a strip of rough stone wall recalls where all of this comes from — the mountain. Apuan marble, from the same basin that gave Italian art its masterpieces, brings into a private space the grandeur of the quarry and the refinement of the cut. Cladding a staircase of these proportions demands precise direction: the selection of the slabs, the orientation of the veining, the oblique cuts of the steps interlocking like an origami of stone. It is the bespoke marble work that Michelessi practises with the pride of true Italian craftsmanship. A pool such as this does not merely contain the water: it stages it. If you seek a work that endures like the mountain it was born from, here it is.

Natural-style pool with stone edge and porphyry paving beside a rustic farmhouse, Michelessi

Porphyry and stone

The Pool Born of Stone

The landscape sets the rules and the pool obeys with grace: the sinuous, natural-style basin settles into the ground like an azure pond, ringed by an edge of split stones that seem laid down by time rather than by human hands. All around stretches the great porphyry paving, an irregular mosaic of slabs in brown and rose tones binding the basin to the stone farmhouse, to the low walls, to the hills that close the horizon. No imposed geometries here: the working of the stone follows nature, indulges it, completes it. And it is precisely this apparent spontaneity that demands the finest skill — choosing every boulder of the edge, tuning the tones of the porphyry, joining the curves of the basin without ever breaking their rhythm. Michelessi signs works like this with the sensibility of the true artisan: stone worked to measure that does not shout, but accompanies. The result is a pool that seems to have existed forever, where the pale-blue water becomes the luminous heart of a country garden. If you dream of a place where the boundary between the built and the natural dissolves, this image shows you it is possible.

Roman-style fibreglass pool with shaped travertine marble coping, detail of the curved steps, Michelessi

Travertine

Roman Curves, a Travertine Edge

A close, almost abstract frame: the curve of the Roman staircase opens into the intense blue of the fibreglass basin, and around it the shaped travertine marble coping draws a perfect semicircle. It is a dialogue between two worlds: the smooth, modern surface of the basin, with its concentric steps descending into the water, and the ancient stone of the edge, worked to a rounded profile that invites the hand to rest and the body to enter. Beyond the rim, paving in warm, variegated stone — rust, honey, tobacco — completes the scene with its living texture, marked by weather and water. Travertine is the silent protagonist: shaping it to curves this broad and regular, joining each block to the next without breaking the line, is an exercise in precision that belongs to Michelessi's bespoke marble work, made in Italy in every gesture. The artisan's art reveals itself precisely here, in details that look simple and are not. If you are thinking of gracing your pool with a natural stone edge, this image shows how a single element can transform the character of the entire basin.

Pool lining in Kenya grey marble with staircase and submerged bench, Michelessi stonework

Grigio Kenya

Kenya Grey Sculpted in Water

Wind-rippled water kindles the surface into a thousand scales of light, and beneath it the structure emerges: wide steps, clean volumes, a submerged seat running the length of the basin like a sculpted bench. Everything is lined in Kenya grey marble, a stone of dense, deep grain that underwater turns almost metallic, shifting between anthracite and silver. The staircase descends with an architectural stride, platforms staggered like miniature terraces; the submerged bench invites a pause, with a spotlight set into the stone to keep watch over summer evenings. At the pool's edge, grey stone paving carries the chromatic register on without a break. This is a project in which the lining is not a finish but the very soul of the pool: the marble gives the water its form, choreographs its uses, multiplies its reflections. Composing volumes of such precision demands exact cuts and impeccable laying: it is the bespoke marble work with which Michelessi builds each of its pools, in the great tradition of the stoneworker's art. If you desire a basin in which to swim, to sit, to converse — to live, in short — this deep grey shows how much life stone can hold.

Roman-style pool with travertine coping and semicircular step, skimmer water collection, Michelessi

Roman style

Roman Style in the Garden of Home

There is a domestic serenity in this scene: the tended lawn, the hedges drawing the boundary, houses glimpsed beyond the green, and at the centre the Roman-style pool with its broad semicircular staircase reaching toward the viewer like an embrace. The travertine coping runs the full perimeter with its soft profile, following the curve of the great step without hesitation; water collection is by skimmer, for a surface always composed and an edge dry and safe. Around it, terracotta paving in orange tones warms the composition and binds the basin to the garden in a chromatic accord that belongs entirely to Italy: the red of the earth, the beige of the stone, the blue of the water. This is the pool conceived for family life: classical forms that never go out of fashion, materials that improve as they age, details executed to perfection. The curve of the travertine, above all, tells of Michelessi's bespoke marble work — blocks shaped one by one and laid in perfect continuity, each piece handcrafted in Italy. If you are seeking an elegance that feels like home, this work is its example.

Indoor pool with two-tone marble floor cut and resin-integrated, wave design, Michelessi

Marble inlay

Marble Waves Beneath the Surface

The floor of this indoor pool does not merely hold the water: it tells its story. A design of sinuous waves crosses the entire basin, crafted in marble of two colours, cut and integrated with a resin finish: dark green volutes chase one another across a lighter field like drawn currents, and the water's surface adds its own tremor, multiplying the movement. It is a floor that mesmerises: from the pale wooden sauna glimpsed at the side, from the glazing that opens onto the green, from every corner of the room the gaze returns always there, to those waves that are still and yet alive. To create an inlay of these dimensions means drawing every curve, cutting the marble along lines that allow no second thoughts, merging the two colours into a single surface perfectly smooth and impermeable. It is the territory where bespoke marble work becomes applied art: Michelessi brings to it the technical precision and the taste of the great workshop tradition, for a result no standard lining could ever equal. If you desire a pool that is also a work to contemplate, this floor proves that water can flow over a signed design.

Pool with grey marble coping and wooden deck, skimmer water collection, rooftops beyond, Michelessi

Marble and wood

Wood and Marble Above the Rooftops

The terrace looks out over the rooftops: beyond the pool's edge unfolds a panorama of tiles, bell towers and hills, and the basin seems to float above the town. The grey marble coping, its white veins crossing the stone like lightning, frames the dark, deep water; collection is by skimmer, keeping the perimeter clean and the surface taut as a mirror. All around runs the wooden deck, warm golden boards that invite bare feet, in perfect counterpoint to the coolness of the marble. In one corner, the semicircular staircase descends into the water with steps that widen like rays — a detail of grace within the rigorous geometry of the basin. Behind, a wall of ancient stone anchors the composition to the history of the place. It is the kind of balance that distinguishes Michelessi pools: authentic materials — marble, wood, stone — orchestrated with bespoke stonework and the sensibility of Italian craftsmanship. Every slab of the coping is chosen and laid so that the veining carries the gaze toward the landscape. If you dream of water suspended between home and horizon, this image gives you the feeling in advance.

Black marble infinity pool edge with slot drain and raised grey serpentine frame, Michelessi

Black marble and serpentine

Black Geometries at the Waterline

A detail worth a manifesto: the corner of the pool becomes an abstract composition, where the vibrant blue of the water meets the absolute black of the marble infinity edge. The water slides over the dark stone and disappears into a slender slot, the collection system reduced to its minimal expression: a line of shadow, a precise incision in the material. Around it, the raised frame in grey serpentine marble closes the composition with its flat surfaces, laid on the diagonal like arrows of stone. Three materials, three tones, a single design: it is the language of subtraction, where every superfluous element has been removed and what remains must be perfect. For when a project is this essential, the quality of execution becomes everything: the waterline must run exact, the slot calibrated to the millimetre, the marble edges clean as blades. It is here that Michelessi's bespoke marble work shows its worth — technique in the service of purity, in the great lesson of Italian craftsmanship. If your taste seeks rigour, this detail in black marble and serpentine will speak to you with the force of essential things.

Project vision: infinity pool with wide gradual-entry steps and cascade edge, hills in the distance, Michelessi

Cascade edge — a Michelessi vision

The Horizon Begins in the Pool

Water and sky keep their appointment along the overflow line: the infinity pool stretches its turquoise to the cascade edge, and beyond that thread the landscape continues — cultivated hills, cypresses, a distant farmhouse — as if the basin were only the beginning of the horizon. In the foreground, the wide gradual entry welcomes the swimmer with broad, unhurried steps, a beach of stone descending gently into the water and letting it play across the golden veining of the lining. The perimeter coping in pale stone, laid in regular slabs, accompanies the basin without ever stealing the scene. This is the pool as belvedere: a place built for contemplation, where the cascade collection system works in silence to keep the surface perfectly taut. Achieving an overflow this wide demands absolute command of levels and gradients: it is the trade Michelessi has practised for decades in bespoke stoneworking, made in Italy with unwavering seriousness. Water forgives no imprecise edge; here it flows as if nature had done everything herself. If you dream of swimming toward the horizon, this image shows you where that stroke leads.

Soft-lined pool with submerged sun deck and travertine infinity edge, a Michelessi creation

Travertine

A Sun Deck Within the Water

The lines of this pool know no corners: the basin widens and narrows in soft, organic curves, like a lake drawn freehand. And within the water, the surprise: a submerged sun deck, a platform where the water turns shallow and bright, conceived for lying in the sun while remaining in the coolness of the basin. The boundary between the swimming zone, of a deep azure, and the relaxation zone, palest green, is a gentle step of stone that the water crosses without interruption. The travertine infinity edge follows every curve of the perimeter with blocks shaped to perfection, while around it paving in irregular stone slabs binds the pool to the Mediterranean garden, among olive trees and wild scrub. Two yellow sun loungers complete the picture of a perfect summer. Curving travertine to a design this free is an exercise in the highest tailoring of stone: every block has its radius, every joint its precision. It is Michelessi's bespoke marble work — the artisan's art applied to the pleasure of living the water. If you imagine whole afternoons suspended between sunlight and coolness, this submerged deck is the idea made for you.

Shaped pool coping with raised zone in bush-hammered marble, stone paving, Michelessi

Bush-hammered finish

The Bush-Hammered Edge, a Grip of Sunlight

Sunlight crosses the water and draws a net of moving reflections on the floor, while the edge stays motionless, solid, sculpted: it is the protagonist of this close frame. The shaped coping with its raised zone is crafted in marble with a bush-hammered finish, the percussive working that ripples the surface of the stone into a fine, uniform grain. It is not merely an aesthetic choice: bush-hammering makes the stone safe under wet feet, pleasing to the touch, alive in the raking light that reveals its every asperity. The raised profile elegantly separates the water from the paving behind, a fabric of warm-toned slabs stretching into perspective like a carpet of stone. It is the kind of detail that separates an ordinary pool from one executed to perfection: the edge is the element you touch, you cross, you live every day, and it deserves the care of a sculpted work. Michelessi approaches it with bespoke marble work: profiles drawn on the project, finishes chosen for real use, impeccable laying. Italian craftsmanship, after all, reveals itself in how it treats the things everyone takes for granted.

Raised infinity pool with double cascade edge, marble and wood decking, hills at sunset, Michelessi

Double overflow edge

Twin Overflows Over Evening Hills

The hour is the suspended one of dusk: the hills dissolve into haze, the sky turns to mother-of-pearl, and the pool gathers the last light like a gem. Built on raised ground, the basin works with a double cascade edge: the water slips over the margin on two sides and vanishes beyond the dark thread of the overflow, granting the surface that perfect tension in which the sky is mirrored. In the foreground, the paving composes its mosaic of materials: slabs of pale marble with a living grain, and the wooden platform that warms the corner of repose, facing the panorama. A discreet steel ladder keeps watch on the opposite side. It is a project that shows how a pool can become the most precious point of a home: the place from which to watch the world, suspended between water and valleys. A double overflow demands hydraulic and stoneworking direction of absolute precision: calibrated levels, rectified edges, a balance Michelessi builds with its own bespoke marble work, in the sign of the great workshop tradition. If you seek water that converses with the landscape until the day's last light, this work is its proof.

In-ground infinity pool with Grigio Carnico marble edge, mini cascade and white pebble channel, Michelessi

Grigio Carnico

Grigio Carnico at the Water's Edge

The water holds the deep colour of an alpine lake, and part of the credit belongs to the stone that contains it: the Grigio Carnico marble edge, its white veins flashing across a dark ground, runs the length of the in-ground pool and defines its character. On one side the edge becomes a miniature waterfall: the water crosses the marble and descends into a collection channel lined with white pebbles, a luminous band accompanying the basin along its whole length like a trail of snow. The rippled surface multiplies the blues of the interior lining, while beyond the edge the garden opens, with its white pergola and seats awaiting the evening. It is a composition played on contrasts: the dramatic grey of Carnico, the white of the pebbles, the vibrant blue of the water. Every transition is resolved with the precision of bespoke marble work: the fall line of the cascade, the rhythm of the slabs, the joint between basin and channel. Michelessi brings to it the experience of a house that has shaped natural stone pools for decades — each one handcrafted in Italy. If you desire water of decisive character, Grigio Carnico is a signature hard to forget.

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