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Palm Springs Forward

Published in , Tuesday, July 1, 2008

A determined group of midcentury modern devotees is helping this kitschy desert city embrace its future while preserving its past.

“Modern architecture is like a black dress or a trench coat: it’s classic, and you can’t get tired of it,” declares Los Angeles fashion designer Trina Turk. We’re sitting in the living room of her 1936 weekend house in Palm Springs, California, known as the Ship of the Desert (Read More…)

Posted in Architecture & Design, Preservation, Travel

Mexican Evolution

Published in , Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Art collectors hungry for the next big thing direct their search south of the border.

I’m standing outside a birthday cake of a building, a white stone mansion built in 1906. Just beyond it, paddleboats etch lazy circles on a green lake. Along the meandering paths of the surrounding Chapultepec Park, vendors hawk wrestling masks and skewered mangoes (Read More…)

Posted in Art & Culture, Travel