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Palm Springs Modernism Week –“Welcome Aboard – The Pan Am Experience”
The tour of the Royal Hawaiian Estates was the main draw for me for this year’s Palm Springs Modernism Week, but there were a few other interesting things we were able to check out during our quick...
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Modernism Week – Retro-a-Rama at M Modern
In conjunction with Palm Springs Modernism Week, M Modern Gallery presents a group art exhibition. Last year’s “The Contemporary Idol” had a tiki theme, while this year’s “Retro-a-rama” skewed more...
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Tiki Events at Palm Springs Modernism Week 2014
The Palm Springs Modernism Week 2014 schedule includes architectural bus tours, films, lectures and even several tiki-related events. Here’s a heads-up so you don’t miss out! Thursday – February 13, 8...
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Tonga Hut – Palm Springs, CA
Next year Palm Springs Modernism Week will celebrate its 10th installment and it seems like appreciation for mid-century modern architecture keeps growing, so now is a great time for the city to get a...
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“Secret” Tiki Room at Tonga Hut Palm Springs
What’s better than a secret entrance to a hidden room? A secret entrance to a hidden TIKI room! That’s one of the highlights of Tonga Hut Palm Springs, a desert offshoot of the North Hollywood tiki...
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“Tiki Modern: Style for the Sophisticated Savage” at Palm Springs Modernism Week
As I mentioned before, there were several tiki related events at Palm Springs Modernism Week this year, including the lecture “Tiki Modern: Style for the Sophisticated Savage” presented by Sven...
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“55th Annual Cocktail Climb” Print Release Party at Shag: The Store
Every time we visit Palm Springs we try to stop by Shag: The Store as they are constantly coming out with new prints and merchandise from my favorite tiki artist Shag (aka Josh Agle). During Modernism...
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Vintage-style Matchbooks & More at Raymond Lawrence Palm Springs
During Palm Springs Modernism Week we spent most of our time attending lectures, film screenings and walking tours — not to mention imbibing at Tonga Hut Palm Springs — but we did manage to make some...
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Carrying the Torch: Ernest Coffee Co. in Palm Springs
The tiki torches on top of the roof are one of the few remaining relics from the Palm Springs branch of Don the Beachcomber that occupied this building from its opening in 1953 through the ’80s. Like...
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Bootlegger Tiki – A Rum-Soaked Oasis in Palm Springs
In 1926, a young man named Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt left home and traveled around the South Pacific, Caribbean and beyond. Back on American soil, he was a bootlegger during Prohibition and when...
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