Water & cold · 2026

The Nature of Swimming

Unique Bathing Locations and Swimming Experiences — Updated Edition

by gestalten

Outdoor bathing places shaped by nature and by human intervention.

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Editorial note

A visual inventory of the urge to get in the water.

Before you open it

  1. Travels through oceans, lakes, rivers and pools that make use of singular natural conditions.
  2. The updated edition adds bathing destinations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  3. Works as a travel atlas and as a repertoire for designing with the water already there.