🎄 The Modernist’s Gift Guide: 2017 🎁

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year (other than Modernism Week, of course) and let’s be real – some of you are still looking for last minute holiday gift ideas. Read on for some great stocking stuffers you can still get today! 

We love giving experiences to loved ones as gifts, and we can’t think of a better way to ring in 2018 than having a trip to Palm Springs for Modernism Week to look forward to. There’s something for everyone – check out our gift guide below!

For the Modernism Week newbie…

Feb. 15-25: Premier Double Decker Architectural Bus Tours

Feb. 17: Sagewood: A Donald Wexler tour

Feb. 17-18, 24-25: Home Tour of West Elm House 2018: The Pool House

Feb. 18: Boom Town: The Story of Uptown Palm Springs

Feb. 18: Racquet Club Garden Villas an intimate oasis by William F. Cody

Feb. 18, 25: Palm Springs Door Tour

Feb. 19: Twin Palms Home Tour

Feb. 19-20, 23-24: Illuminated Modern Sunset Bus Tour

Feb. 19-20, 24-25: Heart of the City

Feb. 20: Historic Home Tour of the 1925 Thomas O’Donnell House

Feb. 20-22: Palm Desert Double Decker Architectural Bus Tour

 Feb. 21: Frey House II Tours

For the one who can’t stop watching “Fixer Upper”…

Feb. 16-18, 23-24: Modernism Week Showcase Home – Moroccan Modern

Feb. 16-18: “Atomic Ranch” Live (various seminars + home tours)

Feb. 16-18, 23-25: Steel & Glass 2018 Home Tour

Feb. 17: Ask a Landscape Designer

Feb. 17: A Day in Old Pompeii

Feb. 17-19: Modernism Week Featured Home – Maison a l’Orange

Feb. 18: Making the Modern A-Frame

Feb. 18: Carl E. Haymond Residence Tour

Feb. 18: Ask an Interior Designer

Feb. 18: El Rancho Vista Estates Home Tour

Feb. 18: Merito Manor: Iconic folded-roof homes by Barry Berkus, 1961

Feb. 22: Palm Desert Signature Home Tour

For the midcentury architectural history buff…

Feb. 15-25: Open House – Architect Walter S. White’s ‘Miles C. Bates house’ in Palm Desert + Walter S. White Exhibition : A Sojourn in the Desert

Feb. 16: Paul Revere Williams: Architect to the Stars…and Everyone Else

Feb. 16: Modernism — with Soul

Feb. 16: The Creative Collaboration of Paul R. Williams and A. Quincy Jones

Feb. 16, 19, 23: Architecture in Service of the Sacred and Spiritual

Feb. 18: Alan Hess Presentation on Frank Lloyd Wright

For the old soul with a love for vintage design and culture…

Feb. 16-24: Mod With A Twist (MOD LIFE or MOD DREAMS)

Feb. 17: Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana

Feb. 17: Styling – the Look of Things: Selling Design to the Masses in the 1950s

Feb. 17-19: Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale

Feb. 18: Modernism Fashion Show – “Spanning the Decades”

For the modernist bibliophile/cinephile…

Feb. 16: Designing the Disneyland Landscape

Feb. 17: Modernism Week Keynote: Martyn Lawrence Bullard and “Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise”

Feb. 18: World Premiere Film – “Frey: Part 1 – The Architectural Envoy”

Feb. 19: Stile Transatlantico / Transatlantic Style: Author Presentation & Book Signing

Feb. 19: Monday with Legendary Women of Design

Feb. 19: The Power of Pattern Book Signing and Tour

Feb. 20: World Film Premiere of ‘Sinatra in Palm Springs – The Place He Called Home’

Feb. 21: Phillip K. Smith, III: Experiments in Light, Space, Form and Change

For the life of the party…

Feb. 15: Modernism Week Opening Night After Dark Party

Feb. 16: Preview Party at the 18th Annual Modernism Show & Sale

Feb. 16: Tiki Beat at Royal Hawaiian Estates Dance Party

Feb. 16: The Big Reveal Party at the West Elm House 2018: The Pool House

Feb. 17: La Fiesta Moderna – Palm Springs Modern Committee Annual Gala Benefit

Feb. 18: ARRIVE 2 Year Anniversary Party

Feb. 23: Sunrise Lanai Party & Twilight Architectural Tour with Host Shag

Feb. 24: ADC Cocktail Party: The Koerner Affair