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RETRO LIVING

WHO REAL-ESTATE AGENT

WHERE PALM SPRINGS, USA

WHAT MID-CENTURY MODERN HOME One of the largest collections of Mid-Century Modern homes in Southern California is the pioneering work of architect William Krisel. Situated in Twin Palms, a south Palm Springs neighbourhood, they became the desert community’s first Modernist tract in the 1950s; at that time they embodied the futuristic ‘houses of tomorrow’.

The desert-mountain landscape presents a dramatic setting for these abodes with their original retro detail. After falling in love scene. It was during his hunt, while driving along the streets of Palm Springs in 1999, that Chris rounded a corner at Palm Canyon and spotted the unusual roof constructions in the distance – structures jutting out like the flamboyant wings of a Cadillac. He headed in their direction and ended up in the suburb of Twin Palms.

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