He calls his company DaVinci Pools. Tiago Del Re creates the most beautiful pools in Texas. I compare his work to the great Leonardo and for good reason. He does many things better than most.

 
Tiago drives some of the best sports cars made in the world, Porsche and Audi, sleek and powerful, almost dangerous looking in the perfection of their design.
 
Great design turns us on. It moves us because we are given clear understanding that the status quo isn't just OK anymore. We don't just look at good design, we feel it.  We experience it because of what it does to us, what it does through us. Good design talks to us in a pure, emotional, mathematical language.
 
Sit in Tiago's Porsche and know the rush of speed before turning the key. Turn the key and hear the rumble of ancient animals stampeding towards a cliff. It's a head rush and a heart rush. The design moves you.
 
Calm down, step out, shut the door. It muffles your heartbeat, everything, tight. Look around. The garage is a pedestal for the sculpted cars. The floor is stained concrete squares, three feet by three feet each, a giant chess board in black and cream white. The orthogonal lines form a safety net for crouching velocity, a game of kingly and queenly sport.  The foundation of good car design- The Yang of a monstrous motor, the Yin of curves carved by wind and passion for speed.
 
You should get to know Tiago Del Re.

So, Tiago's girlfriend, Misty, is serving me a cold glass of water on a honed, dark grey granite counter top in the quiet and quaint country Chalet perched above the garage. We're talking about the next phase of their home.
 
This project started out six years ago on the back of a pad of paper on a picnic bench under a twisted old cedar tree overlooking the view of a lifetime and it started out as a big-ass garage to hold a few, very special cars. Now it's about to grow into more of what Tiago and Misty are all about.
 
To know your client like the back of your hand, to explore together the power of design in the moment, to be a humble Number 2 Pencil, nimble in the language of DaVinci, THIS is to have the Whole Wide World in Your Hands.
 
I've got the Whole Wide World in My Hands. Don't you?

Marley Porter