Palm Springs
Retro Palm Springs estate slashes price to $2.495M
The five-bedroom house with original interiors designed by Richard Himmel comes fully furnished. The art is included, too.
1930s hacienda by Wallace Neff in Palm Springs can be yours for $3M
Built for the heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune, this Spanish-style estate, which holds 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a fruit orchard, and spa, was later neglected. It's been spruced up by a development firm, but still needs some polishing.
Frank Sinatra’s desert hideaway is back on the market
For when you really want to retreat from city life, there's this compound that combines midcentury architecture with lodge vibes on 7.5 acres "high above" Palm Springs. The main house has five bedrooms. Outside, there are saunas and tennis courts.
Time traveling on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is an incredible feat of engineering that brings riders from the desert floor to a wintry mountaintop. It could only make sense in Palm Springs, where the natural and unnatural collide in unexpected ways.
New exhibit showcases the work of William F. Cody
A new career retrospective on William F. Cody opens today at the Architecture and Design Museum in the Arts District. A versatile master of midcentury modern style, Cody designed many of his greatest works in the Palm Desert.
Marion Davies’ fun desert oasis asks $3.4M
The actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst constructed this Rancho Mirage home in 1956. Spreading across nearly three acres, it's maintained by two full time caretakers, but it's far from the most opulent home Davies ever owned.
John Lautner’s famed Palm Spring house finds a buyer
One of Palm Springs' best-known Modernist houses, the Elrod House, finally finds a buyer. An indoor-outdoor pool flows into the hillside house's living room, where the ceiling is a concrete dome connected to walls of retractable curved glass.
Primed for a comeback: 1930s fixer in Palm Springs
Following decades of neglect, the 10-bedroom villa, built for Singer sewing machine heir Arthur Bourne, is being restored by preservation-minded development firm ReInhabit. So far, it has cleared away more than 90,000 pounds of debris.
What comes after midcentury modern?
Palm Springs is famous for the midcentury modern design that has become ubiquitous in the last decade, but the city is spurring a new design trend as it embraces its brutalist treasures of the 1970s. How long until we all have concrete coffee tables?
Kirk Douglas's Midcentury Palm Springs Estate For Sale
Actor Kirk Douglas bought this house—designed by father of Palms Springs Modernism Donald Wexler—in the 1950s and sold it in 1999. Besides still looking it terrific, it also backs up on Leonardo DiCaprio's desert property.
'Berniechella' Block Party Happening in Indio
Artists, musicians, and those with some time on their hands before Coachella's second weekend gets underway are gathering to support presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with a block party in downtown Indio.
Sly Realtor Gets Coachella Fans to Post His Name
Thanks to a sneaky real estate agent, Facebook posts with the geotag "Coachella — Weekend 1" ended up displaying as "Rami Atherton." Atherton, an agent with Nourmand & Associates, says the mixup was an accident, but seems pretty amused about it.
Coachella Promoters Planning Old People Coachella
Goldenvoice, the promoters of the Coachella festival currently bleeding the pockets of millennials, is planning for a new festival for an older demographic. The classic rock fest would feature icons like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones.
John Lautner's Elrod House in Palm Springs Wants $10.5M
The Palm Springs Modernist masterpiece is back for $3.4 million less than its last list price. The house has a circular living room and fame for its role in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever.
4 Ways to Get to Coachella This Year
From shuttle buses to helicopters, there are a number of ways to get to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this year. It's not a long drive from LA, but nothing makes traffic crawl like 200,000 festival-goers all on the same road.
Buy the Modernist Palm Springs House of the Architect Who Invented Palm Springs Modernism
Donald Wexler pretty much invented the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic of Palm Springs that everyone knows today, arriving for a six-month assignment in the early 1950s and staying for decades, meanwhile pioneering the steel-framed Modernist houses...
Rent Leonardo DiCaprio's Fabulous Palm Springs Compound For $4,500 a Night
About a year ago, Wolf of Wall Street star Leonardo DiCaprio scored one of Palm Springs's greatest Modern houses (which is saying something, considering all the great Modern in PS), but maybe he's not using it as much as he thought he would,...
The First Modern-Day Eichler House is Ready for Your Judgment
Here it is, on a patch of Palm Springs desert, waving to fans and haters alike: the very first "Desert Eichler." Thanks to real estate agent Monique Lombardelli licensing the plans, and developer Troy Kudlac putting them into action, Palm Springs...
Wexler & Harrison's Lilliana Gardens Glass House in Palm Springs Asks $1.7MM
The tenth annual Modernism Week has just kicked off in Palm Springs, so in honor of that, let's take a gander at a quintessential Desert Modern that has just joined the market. Located in the Mesa neighborhood, the four-bedroom, three-bath post...
The First New Eichler Home in 40 Years is Almost Finished
Create a map of all the Eichler homes on the market and it'll be obsolete within a month or two. In the early 1950s, the first owners of these post-and-beam tract homes paid as little as $800 down (about $7,899, in today's dollars), and these days...
Renovations
In sunny Palm Springs, California, a newly-restored mid-century home once owned by radio DJ Alan Freed, who coined the term "rock'n'roll," just dropped onto the market for $574K. The simple post-and-beam dwelling...
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard's Pink Palm Springs Getaway Selling for $2.2 Million
[Photos by Clark Dugger] Yes, this is a pink stucco house, but miraculously, that doesn't work against it. The glamorous four-bedroom Spanish Colonial (via the LA Times) was once a getaway for Gone With the Wind star Clark Gable and comedic...
Palm Springs Wants to Adopt NY's All-Metal Modernist House
Palm Springs, home to enough wonderful Modernist buildings to devote a week to them each year, is hoping to add to its collection with a famous transplant all the way from New York: Aluminaire House, by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher. The D...
Burnt Church to Anchor "Most Luxurious Hotel" in Palm Springs
Santa Monica architect Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio heard trumpets and applause when they unveiled their adaptive reuse plans for the historic, Charles Tanner-designed Palm Springs Community Church recently, according to the Desert Sun. The Palm...
Cleaning-up Barnsdall Park, Fixing Long Beach's Waterfront
[Vista del Mar Park fog in the morning by Howard F./Curbed LA flickr pool] · Long Beach seeks help of Urban Land Institute to plan waterfront [Gazettes]· Renowned urban planner Bill Fulton leaving San Diego for Rice U. [Examiner]· Scientists try...
Droning Over Downtown LA, Gold Coast's Glorious Past
[Vincent Kartheiser is selling his really cool little house in Hollywood for $808k] This Week's Top Stories: Drones: Friend or foe? It's too soon to know, but we found a cool one that flew over Downtown LA and filmed stuff and that was pretty...
Nightmare Palm Springs AirBnB Renter Refuses to Leave
In addition to the fact that AirBnB is likely not legal in your neighborhood, another potential downside to the vacation rental service is that you might have to take renters to court to evict them. Business Insider reports on an AirBnB host who's...
Know Your Meiselman: MCM With Enviable Outdoor Space
Location: 2193 East Terry Lane, Palm SpringsPrice: $649,000Size: 1,944 sq. ft on 12,632 sq. ft. lot Located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Palm Springs, this well cared for mid-century modern home, described as a successful vacation rental,...
Shark Bites Swimmer, Ehrlich Builds in Palm Springs
[Photo by Howard F./ Curbed LA flickr pool] · Harrison Ford joins lawsuit to keep SaMo Airport open [Lookout]· Neighbor challenges remodel of Aliso Creek Inn in Laguna [LBI]· SD onvention center expansion is a boondoggle [SDR]· Steven Ehrlich...
Neverland Still Awaiting Buyer, The Stigma of South Central
[Boys will be boys by joey zanotti/ Curbed LA flickr pool] · The last phase of Rose Bowl renovations readied for July 4th [PSN]· Michael Jackson's Neverland remains intact, but unsold [SGVT]· World Cup: Local police up presence for...
Feds Help Sad Salton Sea, Trees Attacked on Vine
[LA Harbor by Howard F/Curbed LA flickr pool] · Innocent drone pelted to death by LA Kings fans [abc7]· Yellow Alert! Bulletins will help track down hit and run drivers [P-T]· Disgusting humans beat up trees on Vine Street [PLB News]· Beach Cities...
Holy Hotel Watch
It's a happy ending for the Community Church of Palm Springs, a historic house of worship gutted by fire in September—the remaining structure will be turned into a new 89-room hotel that incorporates the adjacent Orchid Tree Inn. Renderings...