Palm Springs Modernism Week 2024 is upon us, celebrating all issues midcentury within the Californian desert; it is also the proper excuse for a Palm Springs winter escape (for those who’re within the midst of the northern hemisphere’s chilly months), and one that mixes sizzling climes, modernist structure and loads of alternative for a poolside cocktail. Festivities run from 15 – 25 February 2024, spanning excursions and home visits, talks and exhibitions. For concepts past the crushed monitor, our consultants’ sizzling suggestions for lesser-known desert structure finds from 2023’s Palm Springs Modernism Week are nonetheless legitimate – they usually enrich the bevy of latest choices on this version’s official programme. Scroll down for 2024’s highlights.
Palm Springs Modernism Week 2024: the highlights
Home of Tomorrow tour
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Cannot get sufficient of Elvis, following the discharge of two motion pictures surrounding the music legend’s life – Priscilla and Elvis – within the final 12 months or so? You would possibly wish to add the newly renovated Alexander Property, often known as the Home of Tomorrow, to your to-do listing.
The Home of Tomorrow was initially inbuilt 1960 by well-known developer Robert Alexander for his household after they moved to Palm Springs. It was their dream residence, inbuilt 4 circles on three ranges with 4 bedrooms and 5 loos. Elvis and Priscilla Presley honeymooned there in Could 1967, as a part of their keep in Palm Springs, later nicknaming the residence the ‘Honeymoon Hideaway’.
Poolside on the historic Casa Cody Resort
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A behind-the-scenes tour of this lesser recognized Palm Springs property in San Jacinto Mountains will likely be matched with brunch dishes and cocktails at Casa Cody Resort in the course of the competition’s first week. It is a new addition to the Palm Springs Modernism Week festivities and it places the highlight on the resort, which was created by Harriet Cody. The proprietor, a feminine pioneer and cousin to the legendary Buffalo Invoice, based it within the Nineteen Twenties, and celebrities corresponding to Charlie Chaplin, American Opera Singer Lawrence Tibbett, and AnaÏs Nin stayed there through the years. In the present day, the enterprise continues to be working on 175 South Cahuilla Highway – and is, famously, the oldest working resort on the town, and now thoughtfully refreshed by Casetta Group and that includes interiors by Electrical Bowery and landscaping by Terremoto.
An Night Soirée at Frank Sinatra’s Twin Palms Property
The four-bedroom Twin Palms, which was notorious as a celebration home throughout Sinatra’s second marriage, to Ava Gardner, includes a swimming pool formed like a grand piano
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The Twin Palms Property, designed by architect E Stewart Williams in 1947, is likely one of the most well-known, celeb beloved addresses – in addition to the previous residence of Frank Sinatra. Exclusivity and excessive design meet on this residence – and whereas its daytime excursions guide up quick, this night occasion, courtesy of hosts and Save Iconic Structure (SIA) founders Jaime Rummerfield and Ron Woodson, presents an additional probability to glimpse inside, and get an unique tour, adopted by a festive soirée there.
Francisco Artigas at Midcentury: Fashionable Homes of the Mexican Miracle
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Famend Mexican architect Francisco Artigas was a modernist pioneer working tirelessly in his residence nation – however his affect, and output, unfold far past the Mexican borders. Prolific within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, Artigas has left a long-lasting legacy in midcentury model, and the presentation of his oeuvre at Palm Springs Artwork Museum throughout Modernism Week 2024 is an thrilling new entry this 12 months.
Backyard Tour of the Kaufmann Residence
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In the event you’re a midcentury modernism aficionado, you’ll little doubt be conversant in Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann Residence – however how a lot are you aware about its backyard? This tour focuses on the landscaping across the well-known Palm Springs residence’s close to 2-acre property, which incorporates the ‘Orchard,’ a tennis courtroom and tennis home, and 100-year-old specimen cacti – considered one of which was personally gifted by Frank Lloyd Wright to the Kaufmann household, because the Palm Springs Modernism Week’s web site highlights.
Modular Home prototype show
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Palm Springs Modernism Week 2024 sponsor First Wave Improvement is showcasing a full-scale, prefab prototype in the course of the occasion – the Modular Entrance Facade Showstopper. The construction, which will likely be on show for the primary time on the entrance of the Conference Heart, will likely be open and out there to tour 16 – 19 February. The design options First Wave Improvement’s ZS2 Expertise panels, and DIRTT Residential inside finishes impressed by Palm Springs model.
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