Palm Springs is the perfect place where the residential architecture can dare to defy the convention with steel strips against natural stone, angle levels and volumetric rooms that include their views. And it offers a significant stock of modern jewels from the middle of the century that are waiting to be appreciated by the current audience. Through careful intervention interior design Stephanie Brown Makes this idyllic Indian Wells Ferienhaus A little outside the right city. With a refreshing structure, subtle treatments and surfaces in desert colors, it impresses like in a past era.
A number of pieces of renovation work had the property out of date: ceramic soil that had to go; no longer existing fireplaces; bad spatial planning; And an inefficient kitchen layout. The newly designed house is a considerable project for the area, a spacious, 2,200 square meter area that spreads over a level, with tendrils stretching into the landscape that seamlessly merge into the adjacent golf course site. The exterior functions that improve the experience include an entry -level courtyard that focuses on the focus, spacious terraces and a pool on the back with an amorphous edge like a pond.
The main programming of the interior includes an open living, dining and kitchen room, which is a central core element in which there is a wooden fireplace and media equipment. The private spaces include three bedrooms and three bathrooms that enjoy the same luxury as their public counterparts. Access to light, lines of vision and fresh air are prioritized on the curve of every corner. Badly used space is consolidated, built -in mills are now taking up some former fireplaces, and the revised kitchen offers space for proper conversation. The guests can gather around a long Island, drop by the coffee station or relax at the bar between the food and the living room.
“We wanted the interior to feel warm, calming and clean. Discovering similar interiors from the middle of the century with a purely neutral palette turned out to be an exciting undertaking, ”says Brown. “First I searched Palm Springs for design inspiration, but the bright colors and kitschy styles did not match our vision.” A vision that is lovingly referred to as “Casa Sand Dune”.
Instead, the team in Mexico and Australia, which presents a modern ethos and monochromatic pallets with simple, natural materials such as texture stone and warm forest. The new walls are bathed in sunlight and live in soft parchment tones that attract the primary surfaces – walls, floors and worktops. The steamed palette and finely tailor -made details enable an overlapping of expression materials by house furniture that invite heat in a sterility proposal associated with minimalism.
In view of the hot climate and the nature living outdoors, Brown used large -format porcelain tiles throughout the house, which feels cool and extremely durable. Subtile changes in other damp areas are characterized by the introduction of soft terrazzo marble and a structural wall of cell -like terracotta. She also decided by the Melamin Walnut cupboards because it consisted of weathering with extreme heat and sunshine. The fireplace is celebrated as a central point, which is completely wrapped in walnut paneling with a stove articulated by corrugated concrete tiles.
While the closed apartment complements the famous architecture history of Palm Springs, Brown leaves a rich tradition of modern design from the middle of the century with a new interpretation of this timeless sensitivity.
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Photography by Phil Crozier.