photos by Slim Aarons


 A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches Nelda Linsk, right, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo.


 A woman watching a poolside fashion show at the Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961. 


 Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954.

 Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. 

 June 1983: Dress designer Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997) with a dress dummy wearing military uniform, in his home on Lake Como.

 Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Segrist and their family for a drive in an 'Amphicar' across the harbour at Nassau.

 1961, Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion. 

 American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach. 

 1959: Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica.

 A swimming pool in the shape of a cat at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955. 

 Private Jet, 1973.

 Patricia and Michael Graham, 1973.

 A Magnum Motorboat Belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli at the Hotel's Jetty, 1973.

 A Uniformed Nanny, 1967.

 Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. 




 Aristotle Onassis with his children.

 Bill Babb, Thomas Beecher, model Carolyn Phillips, Mrs Rabb and model Jean Adams, enjoying some guitar music on a terrace in Acapulco, Mexico, 1952.



 1958.


 Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida. 1959. 

 Left: Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Right: A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.

 The Swimming Pool, 1973.

 Marie-Louise Mills and Robert SciĆ³.

The Private Cove, 1991.