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We were honored to be a part of Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club’s grand reopening event earlier this year in Santa Barbara, CA! We first dove into this historic location for our 2017 collaboration with fine art photographer Gray Malin for his series Après-Swim, shot all on location at the Coral Casino.

Set on Butterfly Beach’s coveted coastline, the Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club is poolside glamour personified at a location that’s unmistakably Santa Barbara. Steeped on old Hollywood glamour, the landmark social club cues up a beach chic vibe that echoes with vintage nostalgia. After closing in March 2020 amid the pandemic, the Club reopened this past January after a long renovation and reimagining of the space.

We loved making a splash at this reimagined coastal treasure. Scroll on to see more from the grand opening party! 

Photos by David Mendoza III

A few facts about Artistic Swimming at the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics!

Artistic Swimming has been an Olympic discipline at every Summer Olympics since the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games. There are two artistic swimming event categories: the Team events and the Duet events. Athletes will compete in the technical and free events in Duet, and in the technical, free, and acrobatic events in Team. The combined scores of all two, or three, routines will determine the medalists in each event. 

There’s a new type of Team event. At Paris 2024, the team event will have three events in the Team events category: the two already included in the Olympic program (technical and free) and a third new event, the acrobatic routine, where the team needs to perform “complex structures, airborne movements and a wide diversity of acrobatic action combinations,” explains World Aquatics (formerly FINA).

The artistic swimming events at Paris 2024 will take place between the 5th and the 10th of August 2024! We hope you tune in for the excitement!

Photos: Holly Jo

‘Lillies: Alysha / Inna / Katie / Liz / Nyra / Paige / Philicia / Salise / Tamar

‘Willies: Karl / Trey

Hot Pink Swimsuits: OYE Swimwear

Happy New Year to our friends, fans and clients! It’s been quite a year and we want to share the highlights with you.

HEARST CASTLE
Click here to see how our synchronized swimmers and mermaids added to the magic of this historic landmark! 

GRAY MALIN ON ST. BARTH’S
We traveled around the world this year, including Saint Barthélemy for a collaboration with fine art photographer Gray Malin – evoking vintage Caribbean glamour!

PELICAN HILL RESORT
We made a splash the largest circular pool in the world. Click here to view the epic photos captured here by Brad Walls. 

J LO X REVOLVE
We were there to celebrate the launch of the Jennifer Lopez x Revolve Shoe Collection in the Hollywood Hills! 

MALIBU RUM
Click here to watch us featured in their summer campaign featuring Jax! 

“INFINITY” WITH MICKEY SINGH
Catch us making waves with Mickey Singh in his “Infinity” music video.

MONTAGE TWENTY
We love to craft formations in the water, and we made this ’20’ with our ‘Lillies for the 20th anniversary of Montage Hotels & Resorts.

A special wish for a spectacular New Year, from our Aquawillies! Have them out to your next bachelorette party, birthday bash, or corporate event and make it a head-turning year. Mermen also available!

We are grateful this year to have been able to make a splash in pools around the world! Check out the images below to see us in action worldwide in the French Riviera, Mexico, Hamptons, Miami, Bahamas, St. Thomas, Texas, Mississippi, and more.

With love, Aqualillies & Aquawillies

In early December each year, South Florida becomes the center of the art world when it plays host to over 20 art fairs, including Design Miami/ and Art Basel Miami Beach. We always love making a splash during this annual cultural fête, and have made appearances at various Miami Art Week events for the past decade. See more below from our performances throughout the years…

We appeared at Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 in Above and Below, an otherworldly film by Clara Cullen for Nowness that premiered at the annual art-world pilgrimage. Cullen shot the beguiling film on black and white Super 8 – watch the full film here.

During Miami Art Week 2016 we flipped our fins and made a splash for the Panerai Design Miami/ party that year, hosted by Design Miami/ founder Craig Robins at his lavish art-filled home on the Sunset Islands in Miami.

We celebrated the artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 at the home of Miami legend Barbara Becker – we loved flipping our Mermaid AND Merman (!) fins for these fun photos with Steve Wilson, co-founder of the art-filled 21c Museum Hotels.

Tucked-away behind a leafy façade during Miami Art Week 2022, we surprised guests with an art-deco performance for Weishaupt Design Group‘s pool party held at the Avenue Road Miami Beach Villa! The beautiful Villa residence was designed in 1932 by Martin L. Hampton – a champion of Miami’s Art Deco vernacular. 

2023 RECAP: this past weekend, we dove into Nolcha Art Basel Miami Beach for an aquatic, fashion-focused performance showcasing 3D Meta Dress – a capsule collection of 3d-printed couture pieces! Every piece collected gave back a portion of proceeds to organizations like Girls Who Code and other Foundations helping to promote STEAM education for women and girls.

Come behind the scenes with us at our recent performance at the one and only HEARST CASTLE in San Simeon, California 🌟

Hearst Castle’s history begins in 1865, when George Hearst purchased 40,000 acres of ranchland. After his mother’s death in 1919, William Randolph Hearst inherited thousands of acres around San Simeon, and over time, he purchased more. The spread eventually encompassed about 250,000 acres. With architect Julia Morgan, Hearst conceived a retreat he called La Cuesta Encantada—Spanish for “Enchanted Hill.” By 1947, when Hearst had to leave the remote location because of his fragile health, the estate was still unfinished even though it comprised 165 rooms and 123 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and walkways—all built to Hearst’s specifications and showcasing a legendary art collection. 

The outdoor “Neptune Pool” as it stands at the Castle today is 104 feet long, 58 feet wide and 95 feet wide at the alcove. It is 3.5 feet deep at the west end, 10 feet at the drains, and holds 345,000 gallons of water! Other notable aspects of the Neptune Pool include the Vermont marble that lines the basin, gutters, and alcove, and four Italian relief sculptures on the sides of the colonnades.

We made a splash in the Neptune Pool for a Roaring 1920s-themed private party! As guests looked on from the terrace with their champagne, our “Flapper” ‘Lillies took the stage in their gold sequin costumes, dramatically taking off the skirts to reveal swimsuits before diving in for our watershow performance. Then, our ‘Lillies brought down pool floats as the guests headed down to the pool themselves! Check out more photos below.

‘Lillies: Brianna / Claudia / Gigi / Laurie / Molly / Shea / Tyler / Veronika

Mermaids: Paige / Lilly

Event Planner: Karson Butler Events

Photos: Carla Ni / West Coast Aerial Photography / Hearst Castle  / Stone World