Over the last 40 years, Craig Bragdy has become one of the world’s leading specialists in designing, producing and installing the most spectacular ceramic art for luxury swimming pools and spas. They have moved swimming pools to a new level of achievement; works of art. At the heart of the company are three people, Jean, Nick and Shon Powell. Jean, now in her eighties but as imaginative and productive as ever, started the business as a pottery in the 1950s with her husband Rhys. In the 1960s they began experimenting with small tile panels. This led to a critically acclaimed exhibition followed by a series of commissions for buildings in the UK and Europe. By the 1970s Jean and Rhys had an impressive track record with orders for murals and pools arriving from all corners of the world. Two of their four sons, Shon and Nick became involved in the business and soon developed Craig Bragdy into the world-class company that it is today. Central to the success of the company is a team of 80 designers, mural makers, installers and administrators who between them have developed the extraordinary range of skills and abilities needed to produce work of such diversity and quality. The pictures that accompany this article should by now, have generated a clue as to the scope and breadth of swimming pool decoration. In the world of handmade ceramics there is virtually no limit to the possibilities. Each pool is individually designed, inspired by clients’ suggestions or architects’ instructions. At the design studio a team of skilled artists will transfer a design onto a rolled out sheet of clay. This is then moulded by hand until the shape and detail is perfect. The decorated mural is then cut into pieces, with the shapes and the cuts forming an integral part of the design. The next stage is the application of colour, chosen form a vast range of slips, glazes and oxides. Finally precious metals such as gold, platinum and silver are applied. This process, by its nature, ensures no two pools are the same. Remarkable is the collective ability of the company’s designers, mural makers and installers to transform a client’s unformed ideas into spectacular, stunning works of art. www.cbdpools.com

Craig Bragdy Design – динамично развивающаяся английская компания, выпускающая плитку для бассейнов высокого качества. Компания Craig Bragdy Design была создана около 40 лет назад в Великобритании. Производство плиток, да и бизнес в целом, начался с гончарного производства семьи Поуэл. Они не только делали плитку, основываясь на старых английских сюжетах, но также создавали изделия, навеянные путешествиями по миру и архитектурой разных стран. Именно такой интернационализм в своих творениях сделал Craig Bragdy Design известной не только в Соединенном королевстве, но и за его пределами.