Exploring a 1956-built post-and-beam desert dwelling in Palm Springs throughout Modernism Week.
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Simply in time for Palm Springs’ signature occasion―Modernism Week―a 1956 post-and-beam desert dwelling has come to marketplace for $2.2 million. Positioned within the metropolis’s Deepwell neighborhood, the glass-rich 3,734-square-foot residence represents exactly what the famed Palm Springs week celebrates: basic midcentury structure and design.
Within the four-bedroom dwelling, which begins with partitions of glass overlooking a just-built pool and spa, the L-shaped dwelling space’s sunken bar companies company simply off a conveniently positioned sliding patio door. The house’s terrazzo floating fire, six skylights and clerestory home windows―plus an hooked up casita―cement the residence’s midcentury cred.
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Palm Springs’ Modernism Week, working this 12 months from Feb. 16-26, celebrates such properties. The 11-day pageant contains 350 occasions: dwelling, structure and backyard excursions; artwork, design, vogue and basic automobile exhibits; lectures, and ubiquitous cocktail events. An extra scaled-down Modernism Week is held in October.
Midcentury events held within the Deepwell dwelling had been little question legendary on condition that it was constructed for a former Rockette, a dancer within the near-century-old precision dance firm, the Rockettes, which performs in New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
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The house might certainly have witnessed a poolside kickline in the course of the late Nineteen Fifties however, extra importantly, it harbors what all retired Rockettes crave: an expansive ensuite major bed room, fairly spacious at 748 sq. toes, with two big walk-in closets.
“Everybody marvels that there are two large walk-in closets,” says Alfred Pignat who, along with his husband, Jim King, purchased the home in 2009. “They had been custom-built for her. We have now a framed black-and-white photograph of Radio Metropolis Music Corridor that’s been handed down from one of many homeowners and we’ll give it to the subsequent homeowners.”
The four-bedroom Deepwell house is a celebration of basic midcentury structure and design.
The couple is promoting as they’ll be retiring in Hawaii―the place the rarity of duo walk-in closets will little question confound them.
“The first bed room facet of the house is actually one large suite,” says Realtor Carol Traylor, who holds the itemizing with Ginny Peacock. Each brokers are with EQTY (Palm Springs and Newport Seaside). On the house’s north finish is an workplace and two bedrooms, every with a toilet―one is spacious. “You probably have company,” Traylor provides, “it’s nice to have that separation―they’re on the exact opposite facet of the home.”
The mirror-topped bar is an on the spot dialog starter.
The first toilet additionally includes a step-down bathe with a view of the mountains.
Behind the one-story dwelling are head-on views of Mount San Jacinto and surrounding foothills―an ever-changing cinematic panorama loved from the patio and pool. In winter, the sundown view contains snow-capped mountains.
A floating glass Terrazzo fire highlights the open-concept lounge.
“The neighborhood of Deepwell is cradled by mountains on two sides,” Traylor says. “It sits within the elbow of two ranges―the Santa Rosa and the San Jacinto Mountains.”
In notoriously windy Palm Springs, that siting is essential in the course of the gusty season (April via June) when cafe umbrellas elsewhere simply topple from the gusts. The neighborhood is positioned in southern Palm Springs―removed from the San Gorgonio Go, which sweeps wind into the valley.
Mirrored partitions create a way of quantity all through the three,743-square-foot flooring plan.
“Our home, like many in Palm Springs, doesn’t have home windows or a porch searching to the road,” Pignat says. “It’s what they known as, ‘discreet from the road.’” For celebrities who valued Palm Springs as a haven from gossip columnists and nosy followers―the desert oasis is a mere 100-plus miles from Hollywood―a low road profile was important.
Irrespective of, as a result of such properties are oriented to the actual present: the spectacular poolside mountain views. “Each room has an entry to the again―with entry to the pool or spa, the patio and varied sitting areas, and there’s shade from a pergola,” Pignat says. “The house has an actual entertainer’s vibe, particularly with the sunken bar.”
Views of Mount San Jacinto and surrounding foothills are loved from the patio and pool.
Nonetheless, the house’s facade, primarily clad in white stucco, serves up understated magnificence. A concrete block wall is painted a handy guide a rough aqua contrasted by the entrance doorframe executed in vivid lime inexperienced. Stepping inside, previous the door’s rippled glass face, a glass wall to the left partially frames an atrium (the world behind the aqua concrete block wall).
The open L-shaped dwelling space is straight forward: the eating room, lounge, household room and, additional to the appropriate, an workplace.
The swimming pool and raised spa.
The galley kitchen, laid with a Saltillo tile flooring, is off the household room and contains a further small eating space resulting in the yard. The kitchen additionally has a built-in brick oven for rotisseries and pizza that’s gas-powered.
Flooring within the dwelling are both ceramic or porcelain white tile. A door close to the kitchen results in the laundry and a walk-in pantry in addition to the house’s two-car storage, which features a charger for electrical autos.
The property’s resort-style yard will be accessed from any room in the home.
A 350-square-foot (approximate) hooked up casita with a devoted entry was added onto the house within the Nineteen Sixties. “It may be used for company, as an workplace, studio or it will probably even be rented out,” says Traylor, including that the house has a shower and kitchenette.
The homeowners put in a brand new roof in 2020 and added a brand new pool and spa in 2021.
The yard contains seven fruit timber: orange, lemon and grapefruit.
The yard contains seven fruit timber: orange, lemon and grapefruit. There are greater than 30 forms of palm timber on the lot, which followers out barely to the rear to create the beneficiant yard.
The house’s homeowners say their Deepwell neighborhood, one in every of 52 in Palm Springs, is very very important given its enduring neighbor relations. King was chairman of Deepwell’s Neighborhood Watch program from 2009-2019.
“We have now block captains on each single block,” King says of this system, organized by the Deepwell Property Neighborhood Group that holds varied occasions: backyard excursions, plant swaps, movie nights and poolside events, amongst others.
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“Deepwell properties should not cookie cutter,” Traylor says. “They’ve good dimension tons with mature landscaping. It’s very pedestrian pleasant.” Properties within the neighborhood are a mixture of midcentury fashionable, ranch-style and Spanish colonial structure.
Scores of notable figures have known as Deepwell dwelling, many establishing residences there within the Nineteen Fifties. The shortlist: Elizabeth Taylor, William Holden, Tippi Hedren, Marjorie Fundamental, Loretta Younger, Julie London, Jack Webb, Eddie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, Gavin MacLeod, Eva Gabor, Carmen Miranda and sizzling canine mogul Oscar Mayer.
The 1955 William Holden Property, designed by grasp builder Joe Pawling, is among the many largest and most notable of Deepwell’s properties. The modern five-bedroom residence was designated a historic web site in 2018.
The King and Pignat house is positioned about two miles southeast of downtown Palm Springs and is a 10-minute stroll from Smoke Tree Village buying middle. The Ace Lodge & Swim Membership on East Palm Canyon Drive is a 14-minute stroll away―one in every of quite a few properties, together with occasions, that in recent times have turned Palm Springs right into a youthful capital of cool.
Ginny Peacock and Carol Traylor of EQTY are the itemizing brokers for the Palm Springs midcentury dwelling.
