Houzz Tour: Warm, Curvy Modernism in Palm Springs

Warm weather and great golf courses drew Laurie and Les Cooper to Palm Springs, California. The couple also loves midcentury design, so it was only natural that they fell in love with a home built in 1965 by Rick Harrison, an architect known for creating cool modernist homes that embraced the principles of the jet age.



The views, the golf course and the mod lines of the house drew the couple, but the home’s overall condition did not. It had not been touched for more than four decades, and had sat empty for weeks while it was on the market. The Coopers contacted Stanley Anderson with Moore Ruble Yudell after asking around the neighborhood — architects at the firm had remodeled a few of the homes in the area. “When we met we got along famously,” says Anderson. “We are like-minded about design.”



“The house was pretty dark and grim,” says Anderson. “We reimagined it in a bright white with bright color accents.” The effect is of a permanent summer — fitting for a town that is bathed in sunshine more than 350 days each year.


All of the windows and sliding doors were replaced with new steel models. Given that one side of the open-plan living room, dining room and kitchen is 16 feet of sliding glass doors, the effect is of a glass wall. “The glass doors pocket into the wall, and it really blurs the lines between the inside and the outside,” says Anderson.



Since the clients love midcentury design, the firm’s interior designers chose pieces that were either designed during that era or sympathetic to it.


The bold colors were also client driven. “This couple isn’t afraid to use color,” says Anderson. “Laurie loves the chartreuse, and blue is Les’s favorite color. We chose an ultramarine blue, a nod to all the swimming pools in the area.”


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