Quote of Note | Lisa Germany

“Although the bathroom [of the house that Harry Gesner designed for John Scantlin in 1965] was completely open to the bedroom, there was another approach to it—the one that most established the space as a grotto—via the six-foot-deep lap pool, which stretched ninety feet along the margin of the house at the foot of the glass facade of the living room. Making references to the exterior wall of the bathroom where the lap pool ended, Gesner says, ‘You could swim under it to get into the master bath.