The Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Council’s annual fundraiser took revelers back to 1961 as the Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion was transformed into an outdoor time machine on Feb. 21.
Guests dressed the part and enjoyed live music by the Gand Band with guest singer Trini Lopez, who lives in Palm Springs. There was also a fashion show by Bill Miller’s Deja Vu Vintage Finery and Matt Burkholtz’s Route 66 West, 1961-inspired nosh by Lulu, and traditional midcentury cocktails tby Tito’s Handmade Vodka.
Guests also gained an inside look at the redesign of the original E. Stewart Williams building, the Santa Fe Savings & Loan, has been reinvented into a space housing the architectural history of the Greater Palm Springs area.
Legendary singer Trini Lopez.
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(From left) Maja Gruen, Gary Wexler, Mary Wexler, and Dan Spencer.
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Gary and Joan Gand.
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(From left) John Friedman, Greg Hough, Katherine Hough, Steven Ehrlich, and Jeannie Gold.
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(From left) Barb Kaplan, Jeff Kaplan, Jay Jones, and Michael Gricus.
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(From left) Daniel Cornell, Vanessa Miller, and Joaquin Galeano.
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The outside of the Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion in Palm Springs became a 1961 setting for the event.
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(From left) Alan Merson, Ann Lovell, and Mary Jensen.
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(From left) Maja Gruen, Christy Eugenis, Julie Wren, Roswitha Smale, Mimi Fisher, Mary
Jensen, and Kim Zakowski.
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(From left) Greg Polzin, Stefanie Green, Sidney Williams, and Michael Hinkle
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(From left) Mark Gauthier, Sidney Williams, Erik Williams, and Arthur Keller.
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(From left) Charissa Farley, Shon Tomlin, and Heather Sharp.
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Tony Grandberry sings while the guests take to the dance floor.
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(From left) Jay Lewis, Mary Moody Lewis, Gary Gand, Steve Nash, and Angelique Yalda dance to the music.
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(From left) Greg Probst, Steve Henke, and Bill Miller.
