"There’s a scene in Jean Cocteau’s 1932 film The Blood of a Poet in which the protagonist, an artist in crisis, commands a mirror to “open up” for him. Then, using some pre-CGI movie magic—flipping the set wall horizontally and replacing the full-length mirror with a pool of water—he dives into it with a dramatic splash and enters another dimension. It’s an image that Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, of the architecture and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, refer to often."