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Ein Must-see ist der Flagshipstore der Designerin Trina Turk (21), der Hausherrin des Ship of the Desert (8).

Das ACE Hotel (22) gilt als „seventh hipster heaven“ – als Siebter Himmel für Hipster. Wer nicht im Hotel übernachtet, sollte wenigstens einmal im angeschlossenen Diner vorbeischauen oder Pool und Spa besuchen.

the architect Herbert W. Burns in 1949 as a “Town & Desert Hotel”. Today’s owner and not like a spaceship which had just landed, was the conviction of E. Stewart
also operates the legendary Orbit In (10), whose pastel-coloured fifties interior was Williams. With his L-shaped Edris House (15) of 1954, almost completely covered
conserved almost without any changes since Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack slur- in wood, he felt he had succeeded better than with Frank Sinatra’s Twin Palms
ped there martinis here at the pool. (16) eight years before. The architect J.R. Roberts, who had purchased Edris House
r 7.30 pm – For dinner, we head to the Trio (11), which for years has been ranking some years ago from Mrs Edris and renovated it with the help of Stewart Williams,
among the most popular restaurants in the city, is always packed (those who do conserved the typical mid-century modernism interior including the kitchen, lu-
not make a reservation in good time have to make do with sitting at the bar) and minaires and furniture in natural colours. He added a few colour accents, such as
serves delicious Californian cuisine at fair prices. with the painting by Roland Peterson above the sofa. Dissolving the boundaries
between inside and outside was a goal of Californian modernism. With the rock
Sunday: Architec-tour to Neutra, Frey, Krisel and Co. which the Swiss architect Albert Frey in 1963 had project into his Frey House II
(17) high above Palm Springs, he carried this game to the extreme. As the last
r 9.00 am – After breakfast and a refreshing swim in the hotel pool, we set out in jewel of many residential buildings he built for himself, it marked the then highest
bright sunshine on our tour of additional architectural jewels in and around Palm developed point. Here, high above Palm Springs, the native Swiss lived until his
Springs. Richard Neutra circumvented the then valid regulation by the city of only death in 1998. Today, the house is the property of the Palm Springs Desert Mu-
building one storey high and added an open pavilion onto the flat roof of the Kauf- seum (18).
mann House (12) he designed for the entrepreneur of the same name from Pitts- r 3.00 pm – Due to the many-faceted and outstanding architecture of the “martini
burgh in 1946/47. Thanks to a thorough refurbishment by Marmol Radziner Archi- modernism”, we completely forgot our creature comforts. Now we feel hungry
tects in the 1990s, time appear to have passed without leaving any traces on the and thirsty. In downtown Palm Springs, the Koffi (19) coffee shop in the Corridor
building. Just a few streets further on stands the House of Tomorrow (13), where shopping mall provides us with tasty bagels, sandwiches and cake. In the same
Elvis Presley moved into after his 1967 wedding to Priscilla to spend their honey- building, the Just Fabulous Bookstore (20) lures us with a selection of books on
moon and thus triggered mini hysterics even in otherwise casual Palm Springs. architecture and design and also with attractive souvenirs for those at home.
The architect William Krisel had designed the house in 1962 for the developer Ro- r 4.30 pm – We find pastel-coloured, casual fashion made in Palm Springs in the
bert Alexander as a prototype for future forms of housing. We continue on to West flagship store of Trina Turk (21) on North Palm Canyon Drive, a shopping complex
Cielo Drive, where no less than two icons of architecture face each other: In 1968, designed by Albert Frey in in the 1960s. Besides her own collection, the designer
Craig Elwood designed the white, cuboid Palevsky House (14) with a panorama sells sunglasses and jewellery as well as home textiles and accessories by creative
pool for the philanthropist Max Palevsky, at whose parties the glamorous jet set friends such as Jonathan Adler.
used to meet. On the walnut panels in the bedroom hangs Andy Warhol’s Marilyn r 7.00 pm – After a farewell drink at the hotel bar of the hip ACE-Hotels (22), we
series of screen prints. A building should look as if it had grown into the scenery set out for the trip to Los Angeles full of impression to the brim.

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