A poolside pergola with multicoloured fringe panels and rope-wrapped posts reflected in the water at a private residence.

Private Mansion

A poolside pergola at a private residence, crowned with a sweeping handwoven fringe canopy in red, gold, teal and bronze over braided rope columns — a piece built to be read twice: in the water by day, backlit at night.

Property

Villa

Handwoven fringe canopy

Graded fringe panels in red, bronze, gold, navy and teal cover the poolside pergola, reflected in the water by day and lit from within after sunset.

A frontal view of a multicoloured fringed pergola and rope-wrapped posts reflected in a swimming pool at a private residence. — The full composition across the pool.

Multicoloured fringe beneath a poolside pergola above low seating, with the canopy reflected in the water at a private residence. — The canopy colours reflected along the pool edge.

A poolside lounge beneath multicoloured fringe panels, seen beside a swimming-pool ladder at a private residence. — A corner view of the pergola and its waterside setting.

Warm lights among multicoloured fringe above a poolside pergola at blue hour at a private residence. — The canopy becomes a poolside focal point after sunset.

Braided rope columns

The pergola uprights are wrapped in braided rope.

A close angled view beneath red and gold fringe panels beside a rope-wrapped pergola post at a private residence. — The overhead textile meets the wrapped post.

Layers of blue, cream, green and yellow fringe beside a rope-wrapped post above poolside seating at a private residence. — Colour layers define the edge of the lounge canopy.

Property

Villa

The brief

A private client is not buying a hotel standard. The pool is where this house entertains, the pergola over it was the only structure in the garden, and the owner wanted one piece there that could not be found anywhere else — colour, not the natural palette that every resort in the region already uses. Two conditions shaped the design more than the taste did. The canopy sits directly above open water, so half of it is always seen as a reflection. And the garden is used mostly after dark, which means the piece is lit from below and read as a silhouette for most of the hours it is looked at.

Our approach

We wove the canopy in graded panels — red, bronze, gold, navy and teal running across its length — so the reflection in the pool carries the colour as a moving version of the piece rather than a copy of it. The weave is deliberately open and finished in long fringe: in daylight it drops a coloured, moving shade over the daybeds instead of a flat block of shadow, and at night the warm lanterns above it pass through the gaps so the whole ceiling glows from within rather than being lit on its face. Braided rope columns carry it down to the deck and give the pergola a hand-made structure to stand on. The canopy was made to the pergola’s exact span in our Antalya atelier and installed as one piece. Out of respect for the client, the property is not named and its location is not published.

Scope of work

Poolside pergola canopy for a private residence — a handwoven graded-colour fringe canopy with braided rope columns, made to the exact span of the existing structure

Materials used

Hand-dyed woven cordBraided natural ropeOutdoor-grade fibre

Handwoven fringe canopy

Graded panels in red, bronze, gold, navy and teal

Braided rope columns

Pergola uprights

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