Avery Truffleman

And he is responsible for so much of the furniture that we know and love today.

And he's a pioneer of like,

curved wood, which is crazy, like that's such a pivotal point of mid-century modernism, but when you think about it like beforehand everything that like Le Corbusier was doing, all the other modernism was very like metal and leather and he found this way to like incorporate wood into it and Finland has this big like lumber culture.

So anyway, he was really raised up and promoted and

And a very rich heiress asked him to make her a house inland in Finland, in the middle of the country.

And if you're Finnish, you have to have a sauna in your house.

And it's like if you give a mouse a cookie.

If you have a sauna, what do you need?

You need a lake to cool off in after the sauna.

And so he builds this woman a wiggly, squiggly pool that looks...

kind of like a lake.

It looks a little bit like a sock, like a cartoon sock.

So he builds this house.

And then one day in his workshop in Finland, he's visited by this American architect, this American landscape architect named Thomas Church.

And he sees this design for this pool and he's like, oh, that's a great idea.

And he builds a version of it in Northern California.

And it's now a little bit more like Americanized and sort of groovy-ized.

It's got this like boomerang shape to it.

And there's a sculpture in the middle of it.

It's meant to be like this work of art.