Devour the Desert 

A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal

The Local Celebs | Post, Beam, and Baseline: The Mid-Century Rhythm of Kirk Douglas
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The Local Celebs | Post, Beam, and Baseline: The Mid-Century Rhythm of Kirk Douglas

There is a particular kind of gravity required to survive Hollywood, and an even rarer kind needed to build a life that spans over a century.

Kirk Douglas had both. Long before he was the cleft-chinned icon of the silver screen, he was Issur Danielovitch, born to illiterate Russian-Jewish immigrants in Amsterdam, New York. His childhood was stripped of romance, defined by the biting cold of upstate winters and the literal grit of his father’s trade.

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The Local Architecture | The Secret Language of Mid-Century Modern Palm Springs
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The Local Architecture | The Secret Language of Mid-Century Modern Palm Springs

Palm Springs has many languages.

There is the language of cocktails, spoken fluently from shaded patios at golden hour. There is the language of swimming pools, where a perfectly placed chaise lounge says more than most conversations. There is the language of food, which happens to be our favorite dialect.

But perhaps the city's most distinctive language is one that never utters a word at all.

It is the secret language of Mid-Century Modern architecture.

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