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Modernism Week in Palm Springs
Palm Springs turns its own streets into the main exhibit each February, when this architecture and design festival fills the city with home tours, lectures, screenings, and parties built around midcentury modernism. Timed entries carry visitors into houses and galleries one small group at a time, while talks and films send them back outside noticing rooflines, courtyards, and shadows differently. Mountains, palms, and mid-century facades supply the backdrop for the whole week.
You spend the day looking up: at flat roofs, sharp shadows, glass walls, and the kind of clean lines that make even a parking lot feel composed.