Palm Springs is incredible. I can strongly recommend a visit.
My partner and I (we live in Australia) have visited twice, as she developed a deep interest in modernist architecture over the past few years.
The whole place has the optimistic feel of The Jetsons cartoons, and as you return to reality you wonder “what the hell happened to the world?”.
There’s an architecture tour you can do with a gentleman named Robert Imber, the president of the local architecture society (he’s mentioned/pictured as the tour guide in this article).
He says there’s an informal club called (IIRC) “victims of Robert” - people who have taken his tour, fallen in love with Palm Springs and ended up buying a house there. He claims the membership numbers in the double digits.
True or not, Robert is a wonderful character and an icon of Palm Springs, who has played a huge role in preserving its heritage and sharing it with a wide audience around the world.
Yes! The Jetsons. I knew there was something so familiar about all of this. You're 100% spot on with that and I don't know why it didn't hit me to associate it with that cartoon.
There's an artist in Palm Springs called Atomic Skyway who does super-cool clocks, wall mounts and sculptures in a style reminiscent of the Jetsons and the Flintstones.
Can be expensive for some things, but worthwhile if you value that kind of thing. We have a clock and a table sculpture, and they're our favourite pieces in the house.
It's honestly not my style, but they do look beautiful. I'm certainly surprised about the price... a little more expensive than what I thought it would be but they do look high quality. Congrats on finding something that you guys love to have in your house. I think a lot of people go through life never having that type of thing and just haphazardly collect things.
My partner and I (we live in Australia) have visited twice, as she developed a deep interest in modernist architecture over the past few years.
The whole place has the optimistic feel of The Jetsons cartoons, and as you return to reality you wonder “what the hell happened to the world?”.
There’s an architecture tour you can do with a gentleman named Robert Imber, the president of the local architecture society (he’s mentioned/pictured as the tour guide in this article).
He says there’s an informal club called (IIRC) “victims of Robert” - people who have taken his tour, fallen in love with Palm Springs and ended up buying a house there. He claims the membership numbers in the double digits.
True or not, Robert is a wonderful character and an icon of Palm Springs, who has played a huge role in preserving its heritage and sharing it with a wide audience around the world.
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