Renowned Italian  artist Sergio Furnari – known for his diversity of style in miniature sculpturing, facade painting and exquisite ceramic tile paint design for swimming pools around the world – is currently visiting Dubai, seeking collaboration with developers to build the world’s largest swimming pool in the emirate.

Furnari believes that the emirate – which has become home to iconic developments – is the right place to build the pool, which will be lined with painted ceramic tiles that will become another landmark for this fast-evolving city. The artist has scouted a number of sites along with his design team and wants to build the swimming pool – the size of a football field – connected with the open sea.
During his visit, he painted sample pieces of ceramic tiles that will be a part of the proposed project and has held meetings with a number of developers.
“We have laid the foundations for the projects and are in negotiations with many interesting parties. We hope to finalise the project soon and we expect to start the six-month task of hand-painting the entire pool, once the construction is finished,” he explains.
The Sicily-born artist, who is currently based in the US, is of the belief that such an iconic development would attract an increasing number of people to Dubai and will hold a lot of commercial value for the developers.