As Palm Springs Modernism Week 2023 unfolds, we’ve spoken to architects and designers participating in the festivities to pick their brains about the desert city’s hidden gems
, a Wallpaper* Architects Directory alumnus, and have built their practice around their passions: architectural history, cultural topography and the art world. ‘There are three legs of our practice and they are all connected – there are no firm walls between them, one shapes the other,' Escher has said.
‘[My tip from the region's lesser-known gems] would be the 1957 John Lautner Pearlman Mountain Cabin,' says Escher, who has not only written and curated around Lautner's work, but is also a founding board member of The John Lautner Foundation, and, together with GuneWardena restored Lautner’s Chemosphere for Benedikt and Angelika Taschen. The pair are currently restoring Lautner’s own 1939 family home in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, GuneWardena turns our attention to the desert outside Palm Springs. 'My tip would be the Noah Purifoy Desert Museum in Joshua Tree, about an hour north of Palm Springs,' he says. 'It's a bit of a scavenger hunt, once you turn off the main road. The last stretch is on a dirt road, but well worth the trek. The property was the home of the late African-American artist/sculptor Noah Purifoy, a significant figure in the 1960s to 1980s in the Los Angeles art scene.
‘Also, I want to get a shout-out for the Palm Springs Modern Committee,' GuneWardena continues. 'It shouldn't be a secret anymore, but many out-of-towners don't know them. They have a great app that guides you to the best midcentury finds in the city, like the Wexler Steel Houses, with a click of your phone.
Masters of contemporary Californian architecture with a distinct modernist twist, partners and studio co-founders Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are well versed in translating midcentury for the 21st century – see
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