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Title: Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California Desert by Adele Cygelman, David Glomb ISBN: 0-8478-2091-2 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent coffee table book: not an architectural text
Comment: Palm Springs Modern provides a superb photo tour of a handful of landmark homes that defined the 'modern' style in the 1950s and '60s. Because wealthy businessmen and celebrities could afford edgier architecture, the authors focus on these homes -- with a welcome chapter on the talented William Cody in between. If you want a scholarly treatise on modernism in architecture, buy another book. If you want a tantalizing sample of some of the best work, PSM is fine. By the time modernism made its way into mass production homes, it lost much of its inventiveness and aesthetic. Those familiar with the Palm Springs area will notice that the Alexanders' ubiquitous 'butterfly' rooflines have become almost cliche, while the Loewy house and most of the PSM subjects remain exotic.
Do you need to own PSM before buying or designing a home for the California desert? Clearly the answer is NO. But if you want a virtual tour of some of the most inspired homes of the genre, PSM belongs on your coffee table. And yes, if you live in the Midwest or Northeast you would do yourself a service by putting this away in a closet somewhere during the winter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grab your sunscreen-Let's go!
Comment: A classic. If you've never been to Palm Springs, you'll be catching the next flight after leafing thru this fine book. Gorgeous photos of simply incredible buildings. Palm Springs has a quality and character unlike any other "resort" town. The fabulous architecture of the mid-century building boom and a renewed appreciation of the designs of that period has revitalized (again) the Palm Springs area. If you can't visit Palm Springs personally, then pour a martini, sit back and enjoy this book. It's almost like being there!
Rating: 4
Summary: Hot Desert Modern
Comment: Palm Springs Modern illustrates (in photos) a collection of homes by designers who tested design concepts in the harsh desert environment that complimented, and indeed enhanced the outcome. Those of us who seek inspiration and documentation of the modernist period will find this volumn satisfying. It is not a scholarly book, nor is the text particularly deep in theory of architectural modernism. And it doesn't matter that some of the homeowners were celebrities. What really matters is that there are so many fine examples of modernist architecture and in such close proximity.
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Title: Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis by Alan Hess, Andrew Danish ISBN: 0811828042 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Modernism Reborn : Mid-Century American Houses by Michael Webb, Roger Straus ISBN: 0789305356 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 20 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Classic Modern : Midcentury Modern At Home by Deborah K. Dietsch ISBN: 0684867443 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 25 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream by Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich ISBN: 1586851845 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: 30 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Naturally Modern: Creating Interiors with Wood, Leather, Stone, and Natural Fabrics by Ros Byam Shaw, Andrew Wood ISBN: 0810936682 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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