The End off The Week

On 20th January Barack and Michelle Obama went to Palm Springs California who have the gossips about buying a house there to purifynfrom White House. Palm Springs was always a place, which has the most skilled, well known and some of the coolest -20th- century architecture and where the old presidents like Gerald and his wife Batty Ford stayed.
The resort have been developing and being famous since the late 1920s, though its style formed solely after WWll. When Frank Sinatra earned his first one million dollars he went to Palm Springs and wanted a Georgian style mansion by architect E Stewart Williams. Hoewever Williams built Twn Palms a very modern and poolside house where Hollywood's Rat Pack had fun and Ava Gardener threw pottery to her fiance.
That house was a symbol of Sinatra. In a period of time somw rookie architects with Le Corlouiser, Frank Floyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and some local architects. Like George and Robert Alexander were building copies of those houses, by 1965 the Alexanders built 2,200 modernist houses. Unfortunately the town was better in the past. People were enjoying of thşer cocktails listening to jazz whose houses had cactuses, canyons, pools and palms.
In February the locals will celebrate the midcentury design at Modernism Week. Visitors can join to these celebrations to see the most famous houses like Sinatra's. If you don't have the chance you can read Australian photographer Tom Blachford's book named "Midnight Modern". It has got really colorful photographs like the photos of intresting buildings and 1950's cars that calls you to the next party. The photographs attrack you a lot.