Inspiration for Sale

Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles...

ELLEN PARIS

The Light Touch

Painters would be the first to tell you that the natural light in Palm Springs, Seattle, and Paris differs drastically. But a lighting designer says his work in those three locales remains the same.

Janice Kleinschmidt

As You Like It

For every $1 a seller spends on staging, they average $3 in return, says the Palm Springs-based veteran of the housing market. Many times, I have been in competition with a similar listing — the...

MATTHEW LINK

Psst! - Fab Prefab

Palm springs Modernism Week not only brings pop-up stores to town, but also this year brought a “pop-up” house.

JANICE KLEINSCHMIDT

Five Fun Ways To Be Thrifty

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” It’s true — especially in the desert.

David A. Lee

‘The Lime Grows on You’

Gerald and Betty Ford’s Rancho Mirage house, sold in 11 days, mirrors the design of an era and the humble nature of its former residents

MATTHEW LINK

Inspiration for Sale

Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles...

ELLEN PARIS

As You Like It

For every $1 a seller spends on staging, they average $3 in return, says the Palm Springs-based veteran of the housing market. Many times, I have been in competition with a similar listing — the...

MATTHEW LINK

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...

KATHY STRONG

The Perfect Landing

Through a family connection, Desert Vintage Realty broker-owner Kay Bastasini landed the listing for a luxury oceanfront villa in the Dominican Republic that was once owned by Mansour Ojjeh, (CEO...

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...

By Ann Japenga

Modern Man

Donald Wexler, an icon in Palm Springs’ midcentury modern architecture, has embraced Spanish architecture for his own new residence. At the age of 85, he became the 100th resident at the Segovia...

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

Home Is Where The Art Is

The depth and sophistication of the Annenbergs’ art collection became ever clear in the 1990s, when its heart and soul — the Impressionist and post-Impressionist works — departed Sunnylands...

BY STEVEN BILLER

The Elegant Ashtray

Palm Desert store offers functional art: a $4,000 ashtray from esteemed designer Vladymir Rogov’s Desk Architecture collection.

By Mona de Crinis

Flying High on the Mesa

Beyond the pretty face, one sees the approachable personality that architect Tom Jakway achieves inside and outside of the house he built for himself in 2007.

LINDA L. MEIERHOFFER

Living Inside the Art

Art collectors typically live with paintings and works on paper. Most at least consider owning sculpture. Others go further by purchasing and maintaining space-invading artwork.

VERONICA FERNANDEZ

Fresh Kitchens

The days of the biggest and the best no longer rank No. 1 on homeowners’ wish lists for new kitchens.

BY ELLEN PARIS