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Little house in La Quinta, California

LB — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:42:04 +0000

I love this house in La Quinta. I asked my California friend Darren why the town is called La Quinta, which means “fifth” in Spanish, and he wrote: “It’s called that because in colonial times, there were haciendas along major commercial routes that were reached every fifth day of travel.

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ETERNITY

LB — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:56:16 +0000

Eternity or just Palm Springs, one or the other. Either way, you can tell from the tall red capitals it’s a warning.

Photo taken through plane window, upon landing in California.

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Palmer & Krisel, midcentury modern architecture

LB — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:24:31 +0000

These midcentury modern houses are by the famed Los Angeles architectural firm Palmer & Krisel, which has built a phenomenal number of iconic houses in this style in California and Nevada.

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Horizon Hotel, Palm Springs

LB — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:34:31 +0000

William Cody, Architect, 1952. From the standpoint of the rainy temperate rainforest, desert landscaping is so seductive, so distant, so taunting. Red cactus soil, and an agave growing through the roof, and a boulder.

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The Parker Hotel in Palm Springs

LB — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:11:35 +0000

The Parker Hotel as photographed by Chimay Bleue, who has produced one of my favourite collections of photos of modernist architecture on Flickr. I’ll do a series of posts using his photos if he will let me.

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Living with boulders

LB — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:18:58 +0000

Frank Lloyd Wright built Fallingwater on a boulder-covered site, but the giant rocks beneath and around that well-known house are not nearly so graphic or madly visible as they are in these houses.

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Yesterday’s House of Tomorrow

LB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Obviously the House of Tomorrow wasn’t meant to be part of everyone’s tomorrow. Nice Jag. Nice unbuttoned look, too. That’s the developer, Bob, with his wife Helene in their 1960 Desert Modern-style house in Palm Springs by Palmer & Krisel, architects.

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Bedroom with boulder, by Albert Frey

LB — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:39:41 +0000

The Frey House, Palm Springs, 1963-4. Built by Albert Frey for himself, in the Desert Modern style he established in Palm Springs.

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