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Monday, July 12th, 2010A recent New York Times Travel Section article on July 4, 2010, entitled 12 Unexpected History Trips, features a visit to retro Palm Springs. If you are nostalgic about the good old days in the 40’s and 50’s when Palm Springs became the Playground of the Stars, the article gives you a list of places [...]
Ten Days of Modern Love in Palm Springs
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Billed as 10 Days of Modern Love in Palm Springs, the fifth annual Modernism Week begins this Friday, the 12th (with a preview party on Thursday night) and runs through the February 21st. The Festival has grown steadily each year and has recently been featured in such publications as TIME.com, LATimes.com, Forbes, the Wall Street [...]
Palm Springs Modernism Week 2009 – A Celebration of All Things MOD!
Saturday, February 7th, 2009The 4th annual Modernism Week 2009 kicks off this coming Friday, February 13, 2009 and will include a wide variety of events over a 9-day period. As in previous years, Modernism Week will begin with the two-day Modernism Show on February 15 and 16, preceded by an evening Preview Reception on the14th, held at the Palm [...]
Desert residents will soon have more shopping options
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Long awaited here in the Desert, Nordstrom is now slated to open at Westfield Palm Desert in the spring of 2011. A “dazzling renovation”of Westfield was announced by mall officials reently, which will include Nordstrom as one of two new luxury department stores, the other not yet announced. Westfield also hopes to include new entryways, new restaurants in a [...]
A Palm Springs Landmark Reborn
Saturday, November 15th, 2008After a major renovation, the famed Riviera Resort and Spa has reopened to wow locals and visitors alike, so we decided to go explore it for ourselves. Originally opened in 1959 in the style of Las Vegas hotels such as the Sands, Flamingo, and Stardust, the Riviera was frequented by a host of the rich [...]
Palm Springs Style Lures Vacationers – An Afterthought
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008As a followup to yesterday’s article on Palm Springs Style, if you are thinking about buying a home in Palm Springs, it’s good to know that the rental market here is strong. Renting your home seasonally is a one good way of offsetting your fixed costs. A possible downside is that rentals here are quite popular, and you [...]
“Palm Springs Style” Lures Vacationers
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008One of the pleasures of taking a vacation is having the time to read the New York Times in a leisurely fashion. Recently we were at the airport, leaving Palm Springs for a few days on the East Coast, and Dick purchased a copy. I immediately leafed through to pull out a Life Style section called Escapes, and there we were [...]
Palm Springs Architecture in the News . . . Again!
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008It always amazes me that such a small community as our own village of Palm Springs, California can offer to the world so much architectural relevance, particularly as it relates to the mid-20th century Modernist movement. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, our village probably has the largest concentration of mid-century buildings in the US, [...]
A Unique Palm Springs Experience
Monday, August 4th, 2008Get the real feel of living in our desert oasis – rent the digs of a Hollywood legend! This week’s edition of Time magazine (8-11-08) suggests this great option, instead the usual stay in a hotel/motel. And for anyone considering purchasing a property here in always sunny Palm Springs, it’s an intimate way to experience [...]
Selling a Palm Springs Work of Art – The Kaufmann House!
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008We mentioned in earlier blogs dated 11-28-07 and 1-25-08, that the famed Palm Springs Kaufmann House, known as a “masterpiece of modernism”, would be sold on May 13 at a high profile auction at Christie’s in New York City. The house did sell last night – for $15 million, as a piece of fine art – not as a [...]
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