“Palm Springs had long been a hideaway for L.A. glitterati who commissioned avant-garde desert homes during the 1950s and ’60s. But by the end of the 20th century, those sleek lines had fallen out of style, and “a layer of dust had settled over the whole town,” says Adéle Cygelman, who penned Palm Springs Modern, the first book on modern architecture in the desert city, in 1999. “It was like Sleeping Beauty.”
Her book, along with spreads in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, brought attention to homes by modern masters Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Albert Frey in need of new stewards. “They still hold up as pure architecture that never gets old,” Cygelman says…”
