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We made the New York Times today.

In Mecca of Modernism, a New Pack of Devotees

Some magical combination of the climate, the beautiful surroundings (a huge mountain with the largest escarpment in the US) and just general "tone" converge on Palm Springs. Our town.

We came here partly for this reason. It is just a pleasure to be in the midst of this.

Even our condos have an architectural name behind them, a local, Don Wexler.

It is fun to drive around and name the names both of the owners and the architects.

I personally do not pay a lot of attention to this but am happy to have a husband who does. I am more in tune with the natural things and get fussed when the buildings interfere. But few of them do. Unlike many other destinations the natural beauty here dominates and the architectural scale enhances rather than detracts.

The photo is one I just took out of dozens in the Google image file for Palm Springs Modernism.

You might want to make your own survey.

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