plage finlandaise

13:38 Dec 2, 2009 

One of those situations where the French sees one side of the coin and the English the other, I guess. The point is that the join between the pool and the poolside (plage) is flush. The English expression qualifies the pool, the French the poolside.

13:05 Dec 2, 2009 

as to how a 'plage' becomes a 'pool'... but I suppose the client is always right!

13:39 Dec 1, 2009 

Did not do a full search (it's still early here), but the "deck-level pool" refs I find are UK, while edgeless/infinity pool refs seem to be US. The pics look similar.

10:39 Dec 1, 2009 

http://www.andalucia.com/lifestyle/pools.htm

Sorted!

10:29 Dec 1, 2009 

but if you read the Wikipedia entry you will see they are even more luxurious than the "deck-level pool", which is what I am now sure this is. For "Finnish overflow", looking at the links I think you can blame an overflow of German to English translators. In any case, one's never alone with a rubber duck.

10:24 Dec 1, 2009 

"Finnish overflow" sounds like a euphemism for the morning after an excessive night on the town and I'm sure the only "infinity pool" in existence was commissioned by Zaphod Beeblebrox on his way to the restaurant at the end of the universe :)

10:17 Dec 1, 2009 

Emma's offering of "Finnish overflow" in the reference comments sounded a bit translatorese to me, but looking at her lnks led me to "deck-level pool", which I think is probably the correct term. Thanks!

09:33 Dec 1, 2009 

"piscine miroir à fleur d'eau". So does Travelin Ann have it after all?

20:20 Nov 30, 2009 

When I visited friends in Germany several years ago, they suggested a walk on the Finnish trail to walk off my jet lag. That "finnish trail" turned out to be a cleared path a wooded area. The trail (or walking path) was covered with wood chips. Maybe the Finnish beach is also derived from some language other than French.

19:03 Nov 30, 2009 

I can but try :)

18:45 Nov 30, 2009 

To this lover of architecture, that powerpoint was a beautiful find. But the "plage finlandaise" in it is located in Finland and is apparently designed to imitate an actual Finnish beach. It doesn't appear to be an infinity-edge pool, either. :(

18:42 Nov 30, 2009 

I guess it just deals with a sort of private tanning "beds"
the expression is used only by sites that describe this Moroccoan Hotel
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=30&q="plage ...

then if you go on the Hotel official site and check the part dealing with pools you'll find they just talk about "the sky as sole witness" meaning that you can tan yourself privately and in one of the photos these beds with lateral protection are shown.
http://www.mamounia.com/uk/
http://www.mamounia.com/fr/

So, actually in Northern Europe, the strong chilly winds make people use this closed beds that protect from cold and, consequently, also from other people staring.

Otherwise I could not find any other linking cause between the sites describing this ***beach*** and the official Mamounia site apparently not talking about it in the course of pools descriptions.

of course I may be wrong but I cannot think to anything else!

good luck!

18:33 Nov 30, 2009 

I agree spillyway wouldn't be the right word, but isn't that functionally what an infinity pool's edge is?

18:31 Nov 30, 2009 

I don't think it's an infinity pool, which appears to be piscine infinie or piscine à débordement. And a spillway seems a very odd thing to advertise, given that most of us don't know what it is.

18:25 Nov 30, 2009 

Infinity pool would certainly make sense of the "spillway" part. I'll have to find some Finns...

18:12 Nov 30, 2009 

Found a visual here:
www.ac-nice.fr/ia83/iensixfours/arts/pps/MAISONSXXemesiecle...

Phrase seems to be used in Morocco, too

From the visuals I found, as well as Dominique's entry, I wonder if this might be an infinity pool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_pool