Kaufmann House Palm Springs Tour

One minute at the entrance of the kaufmann house.

Kaufmann house palm springs tour. Kaufmann desert house palm springs. The modern tour palm springs picture. The second in our series highlighting the best buildings in palm springs during the city s modernism week is richard neutra s kaufmann house. The tour includes the history of palm springs the people who lived worked and vacationed here the hollywood stars who played and built homes here and the architects builders and designers who from the late 1930s through the early 1970s developed the desert modernism style for which palm springs has become famous.

The kaufmann s palm springs pad is now regarded as one of the most significant buildings of its time. He needed a winter residence and he needed it in palm springs. You ll see distinctive homes by noted architects celebrity hideaways. The kaufmann house is located in palm springs california.

Designed by architect richard neutra in 1946. Kauffman visited taliesin west the. In 1946 he chose richard neutra revered in his time as a pillar of american modernism to build a luxurious desert house that would also function as an efficient machine. Owning the world s most famous house in the world the fallingwater was not enough for department store magnate edgar j.

In the late 1940s architect richard neutra designed this vacation home for the kaufmann family clearly no slouches when it came to architecture since they also commissioned frank lloyd wright to design another icon fallingwater. In 1946 he chose richard neutra revered in his time as a pillar of american modernism to build a luxurious desert house that would also function as an. In the early 1950 s liliane kaufmann commissioned wright to design another house in palm springs on the north side of the property where the neutra house sits. An unflattering image of the neutra house appears in wright s rendering.

The kaufmann house by architect richard neutra was built in 470 west vista de chino palm springs california united states in 1946 1947. The result was. He needed a winter residence and he needed it in palm springs. It was then remodeled in 1994 1998.

Introduction a decade after edgar kaufmann hired frank lloyd wright to design the famous fallingwater house in bear run pa the same kaufmann wanted to build a house on the west coast. Das kaufmann house auch kaufmann desert house oder desert house wurde 1947 von dem architekten richard neutra in palm springs kalifornien gebaut. Named boulder house as confirmed by edgar kaufmann jr. In his book fallingwater rising this commission was to be a home for liliane kaufmann who could no.

Der bau erfolgte im auftrag des kaufhausmagnaten edgar j.