In his short story, “The Swimmer,” the late Ossining author John Cheever imagined his troubled protagonist swimming the suburban landscape by dipping into one neighbor’s pool after another.
So the question here is, What would he make of these pools?
To celebrate the start of summer, Manhattan public relations firm UpSpring has pulled together these images of pools designed by some of their clients. We’re happy to pass them along to give you ideas for planning your own backyard oasis (late summer and early fall are good times for pool building) or just to escape into.