Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Palm Springs

  • Palm Springs Art Museum – Glass as Art

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    Like many people, my first exposure to glass as art was the stuff that you see in street fairs.  It wasn’t my favorite medium.  As I have gotten older, and visited more museums I fell in love with cast glass.  Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by pouring molten glass…

  • Palm Springs – Art Moderne

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    This little Depression Era “Art Moderne” gem is at 342 North Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs.  There is very little known about it.  It is assumed to be built around 1935-1936, the first actual knowledge of its existence is a listing in the 1937 phone book.  At that time is was Simpson’s Radio and…

  • Palm Springs – Oddities

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    This is one of my favorite types of architecture.  Scavenger, innovative, a tad crazy and an absolute representation of the person that built it.  This is the home of Cabot Yerxa.  He was the son of a fabulously wealthy family that lost it all.  He was a creative, innovative and wealthy man by his own…

  • Palm Springs – Gothic Revival

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    Over the years I have walked by this little church on my way to downtown Palm Springs.  It has always caught my eye.  A Gothic Revival made of CMU is a big hmmmm? in my book.  It is in fact that only surviving Gothic Revival Building in Palm Springs.  Completed in 1935 is was designed…

  • Palm Springs – Ship of The Desert

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    “Ship of the Desert” is classic Art Moderne due to its “nautical” elements.  This home, located at 1995 S. Camino Monte in Palm Springs, was built in 1936.  However, the original (designed by Earl Webster and Adrian Wilson) was seriously damaged by fire.  The owner, clothing designer, Trina Turk hired Marmol Radziner, an architecture firm…

  • Elvis in Palm Springs

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    Okay, I don’t know if this one would be rated up there as one of the best examples of Modern Architecture, but I had to use it because it has ties to Elvis Presley.  This is called the House of Tomorrow and was designed in 1962 by William Krisel.  It was commissioned by Robert Alexander,…

  • Palm Springs – Modern Architecture

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    I loved this building.  To me it epitomizes everything you think about when you think 1960’s architecture.  It’s square lines, its concrete tilt-up panel walls and its austereness.  It was built in 1969 and designed by Robert Ricciardi.  I have found absolutely no information about this building, one little blurb mentioned that the “failure” of…

  • Palm Springs – Modern Architecture

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      Palm Springs is the home of the Modernism movement, especially “desert modernism”.  While modernism is not my favorite architecture style, when it is done right, it really does sing.  This is the Del Marco Hotel.  It is located at 225 W. Baristo Road in Palm Springs.  The architect was William Cody.  In 1947 Cody…