A French Artist Just Made a Swimming Pool Out of an Old Camper

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June 13, 2018 9:00 am EDT

Above-ground pools, bless ‘em, are lifetime members of the Tacky Backyard Association.

The best recipe for addressing their seedy rep, though? Doubling down on that tackiness until they’ve been transposed into art.

And French artist, exhbibitionist and turns-police-cars-into-hen-coops-ist Benedetto Bufalino is the ideal guy for that job. The man just successfully installed a swimming pool into a run of the mill camping trailer:

How did he do it?

The “Caravane Piscine” takes shape in this video; it’s gutted of its roof and interior before the workers add layers of wooden paneling, smooth tile, even a coat of turqoise blue. A ladder was also affixed to the rear of the auto for easy entry. 

The end result (which can still drive around, amazingly) resembles a likely dream after an exhaustive day of camping and chasing swimming holes … only it’s real, and Benedetto’s almost certainly got more kookiness up his sleeve

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Tanner Garrity

Tanner Garrity

Tanner Garrity is a senior editor at InsideHook, where he’s covered wellness, travel, sports and pop culture since 2017. He also authors The Charge, InsideHook’s weekly wellness newsletter. Beyond the newsroom, he can usually be found running, skating, reading, writing fiction or playing tennis. He lives in Brooklyn.
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