The desert dared several individuals to dream and create work that continues to speak to us today, from Raymond Loewy to Jimmy Van Heusen.
Along for the Ride
An attractive new book reveals how automakers marketed cars to women in the postwar era.
Palm Springs authors Jeff Stork and Tom Dolle have written in “Glamour Road” about how automakers marketed cars to women in the postwar era.
Buddy Carr’s Palm Springs
This lifelong skateboarder, product designer, triathlete and Italian scooter rider captures strong, shareable photography whenever he’s in Palm Springs.
Photographer Buddy Carr formed an appreciation for midcentury architecture as a youth, and captures it every time he comes to Palm Springs.
Great Minds
Innovators across industries regard the desert as a place where inspiration flourishes and ideas come to life.
Innovators across industries, like Desert X founder Susan Davis, view the desert as where inspiration flourishes and ideas come to life.
A Place to Innovate
For 100 years and counting, big thinkers have come to the desert to innovate and transform the way we live.
For 100 years and counting, big thinkers like Nellie Coffman and her Desert Inn have come to the desert to innovate and transform the way we live.
Design and Conquer
Raymond Loewy’s Studebaker Avanti elevated him to cultlike status … that, and his recipe for beer-steamed clams.
The Studebaker Avanti, designed by Raymond Loewy, couldn’t possibly be more Palm Springs, even if it were shaken and adorned with an olive.