Kaufmann House Palm Springs Tour

Der bau erfolgte im auftrag des kaufhausmagnaten edgar j.
Kaufmann house palm springs tour. 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. The kaufmann house or kaufmann desert house is a house located in palm springs california that was designed by architect richard neutra in 1946. The kaufmann s palm springs pad is now regarded as one of the most significant buildings of its time. The result was.
It was then remodeled in 1994 1998. An unflattering image of the neutra house appears in wright s rendering. Das kaufmann house auch kaufmann desert house oder desert house wurde 1947 von dem architekten richard neutra in palm springs kalifornien gebaut. 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.
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. Kaufmann a notorious womanizer completed the desert house as his marriage disintegrated. 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. 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.
Get offline map and directions using our gpsmycity self guided walking tours app for your mobile device. The modern tour palm springs picture. The kaufmann house by architect richard neutra was built in 470 west vista de chino palm springs california united states in 1946 1947. Kaufmann desert house in palm springs usa sight map attraction information photo and list of walking tours containing this attraction.
Owning the world s most famous house in the world the fallingwater was not enough for department store magnate edgar j. Kauffman visited taliesin west the. Notable palm springs mid century homes include the edgar kaufmann house a local landmark by architect richard neutra built for the pittsburgh department store millionaire in the 1940s the alexander estate our house more commonly known as the house of tomorrow where elvis presley spent some of his time off from los angeles in the 1960s.