"Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children" said American playwright Paul M. Rudnick.
Avoid the felony charge (and the stuffy museum) and walk into some culture by experiencing the tactile pleasure of one of America's home-grown architectural periods in real time. View, touch and even smell the most complete collection of mid-century modernism in the Americas in Palm Springs, CA. It is Modernism Week and the ten-day party runs February 12 -21!
Thanks to the flush of cash and expansion that met post-war America, Palm Springs was born of modernist influence that bespoke of Atomic-age optimism. While Detroit was pumping out cars with jet-age lines, minimalist Bauhaus-inspired modernists were busy building a city of effervescent design.
After a few decades of desert neglect, Palm Springs has rediscovered modernist design and is wearing its colors in style. Beauty is, you don't just look at it, you can sit in it, eat in it, sleep in it and even buy it! Welcome to America's walk-through museum of modernism.
This week architecture and design buffs from around the world will flock to Palm Springs for the annual Modernism Week. Through February 21, the fifth annual celebration showcases modern masterpieces by acclaimed architects such as Albert Frey, William Krisel, E. Stewart Williams, Donald Wexler, and William F. Cody. Take in lectures and interviews with modernism experts, screenings of films on the Eameses and Julius Shulman, parties, house tours, and more. Not to miss: the exhibition of Airstream vintage travel trailers.
What Miami is to art deco, Palm Springs is to modernism - enjoy it now before it's all crated off to a museum one day.
Just need a quick modernist fix? Asylum shows its selections both indoors and out at its 844 North Palm Canyon Drive location.
