The Palm Springs Convention Center

The 7th Annual Palm Springs Modernism Show and Sale will start tonight at the Convention Center. There will be a preview party which will feature 80 international decorative and fine arts dealers.
Also today, the kickoff to Palm Springs Modernism Week will be a dedication ceremony honoring E. Stewart Williams with a star on the city’s Walk of Stars. Williams, who died in 2005, left a body of work that included the Palm Springs Art Museum, Frank Sinatra’s desert house, the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and the 1954 Edris House. As an architect he helped shape the look of the city of Palm Springs. “He was an early
Environmentalist with his own spin on desert Modernism,” says Michael
Stern of the Palm Springs Modern Committee.

Palm Springs Modernism Week is a 10-day celebration of mid-century architecture and design. Our valley’s architecture is as unique as our landscape. “Mid-century modernism is typified by clean, simple designs that are at once elegant and informal, retro yes futuristic” according to the Desert Sun.

For more information of events taking place during Modernism Week,
visit www.modernismweek.com

Article by: Judy M. Virtual assistant of R. Haverkate