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Mid-century marvellous

WHEN FRANK SINATRA MOVED into Twin Palms Estate, he planted a flagpole in his garden between two tall palms so he could raise a Jack Daniel’s flag to let his neighbours know it was cocktail hour. As I stand by the glistening piano-shaped pool, I can just imagine him on a balmy evening with his favourite whisky in hand, leaning on the bar as he waited for Dean Martin or Humphrey Bogart to waltz in for a martini.

Sinatra commissioned his first home in Palm Springs in 1947 from

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