A S I Art·Style·Innovation opens in Palm Springs

Designers Larry Abel and Raymond McCallister today previewed their first retail store, A S I Art·Style·Innovation, on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. The store features unique furniture, art...

Back to School

While Palm Springs reflects the influence of midcentury modernism, Indio’s architectural gem reflects the influence of the railroad. Southern Pacific-style architecture distinguishes the...

Janice Kleinschmidt

Clear Artistry

Not long ago, author Anne Rice commissioned Craig Zeigler to make acrylic mirror-backed doll showcases to line a hall. Over the years, he has installed classy handrails in the Bob Hope house and...

Jorie Parr

See Modern Marvels

Aficionados of form and structure consider Palm Springs a major piece of the midcentury modern puzzle.Palm Springs Modern Tours leads groups in buses or on Segways. Here are highlights for a...

Going for Shipshape

At the old North Shore Yacht Club on the Salton Sea, broken aluminum siding bangs ominously in the wind while pigeons fly in and out through the holes in the building. Apocalyptic graffiti —...

By Ann Japenga

PSST - Rock Solid

Cambria, the only producer of natural quartz surfaces in the country, made an unusual debut in the Coachella Valley: on the catwalk. Less than a month after opening a design center in Palm Desert,...

Wealth - Carpe Diem

Inside the building — the 7,200-square-foot headquarters office of HK Lane — President/CEO Harvey Katofsky appears to have perfectly timed the company’s debut

Sun City Shadow Hills Listed In America’s 100 Best Places To Retire

Sun City Shadow Hills in Indio Listed In America’s 100 Best Places To Retire. Out of the 100 communities, ten Del Webb communities nationwide received the honors of “America’s Best...

Editor's Letter - May 2009

Seldom do I dread producing an issue of Palm Springs Life, but this month — our annual real estate issue — came with a challenge: We, like the army of reputable experts whom we interviewed,...

Steven Biller

Revisiting the Kaufmann House

It’s like being in Switzerland: You want to see the Matterhorn,” says Crosby Doe, a veteran salesman of architecturally significant houses. And when in Palm Springs, he adds, “You want to see...

By Morris Newman

Astonishing Andalusia

Andalusia at Coral Mountain in La Quinta provide an irresistible draw: remote enough to inspire country-style living yet only a 10-minute drive to shops and restaurants.

By Jan Silver Maguire

PSST! — Modern Love

Joan and Gary Gand founded the appreciation organization Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond and attended modernism shows in the Windy City before they heard about Palm Springs’ modernism show. Having...

By Janice Kleinschmidt

Clear Artistry

Not long ago, author Anne Rice commissioned Craig Zeigler to make acrylic mirror-backed doll showcases to line a hall. Over the years, he has installed classy handrails in the Bob Hope house and...

Jorie Parr

PSST - Rock Solid

Cambria, the only producer of natural quartz surfaces in the country, made an unusual debut in the Coachella Valley: on the catwalk. Less than a month after opening a design center in Palm Desert,...

The Great Escape

Steve McQueen made Hugh Kaptur’s Southridge house his own

By Allison Engel

Come Sail Away

A private owner opens the angular Boat House — built for racecar driver James Jeffords in 1989 — to guests seeking a magical escape

By Allison Engel

Five Designers At Home

How do designers live behind closed doors? With big ideas and the rooms to show them off.

By Lisa Marie Rovito

Who Slept Here

The real estate market's most notable opportunities to live like a celebrity.

By Lisa Marie Rovito