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Déjà New

Most people don’t realize they’re familiar with the architecture of John Lautner. If you’ve seen Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Lethal Weapon 2, or Charlie’s Angels, you’ve seen a piece of Lautner architecture.

MATTHEW LINK

CAMEO - What Defines a Modern Man, Jacques Caussin?

Jacques Caussin was living in Detroit when he brought a modernism show to Palm Springs in 2001.

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Architecture & Design — Modern Man

Palm Springs Life interviews Robert Imber, a tireless advocate for architectural preservation for more than 25 years.

Wealth - The Art of Acquisition

No matter what you collect, experts agree passion rules when buying.

Ellen Paris

psst! Cameo

The financial industry touts Fern as one of the country’s top investment advisers. Barron’s ranked him fifth on its Top 100 Independent Advisors list for 2011.

Ellen Paris

The Elements of Gracious Living

Fine food, fashion, and design round out an elegant evening at a Tuscan-inspired country club home.

Kimberly Nichols

Editor's Letter - December 2011

Shooting on location for Palm Springs Life sometimes goes like filming a movie. We often start somewhere in the middle of the story and sequence the final images when we lay out the magazine.

Steven Biller

Function & Flair

There’s a reason that even the most lavish house parties often ebb and flow in and out of the kitchen.

ELLEN PARIS

Betting on Bighorn

A self-admitted risk taker and wizard at turning the impossible into the probable, Depression-raised Hubbard sees much in life as a gamble — but only on his terms, which have proven widely profitable.

KATHY STRONG

John Lautner’s Windsong

Beaumont police Chief Pat Smith and his wife, Glo, exhausted the real estate listings in Beaumont, Oak Glen, and Cherry Valley when they decided to check out “that other mountain”: The Highway 243 side of the San Gorgonio Pass, rarely traveled except by those en route to Idyllwild.

By Ann Japenga