Devour the Desert 

A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal

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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The Local Questions, Vol. 2 | Field Notes From Palm Springs
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The Local Questions, Vol. 2 | Field Notes From Palm Springs

The Longer You Stay in Palm Springs, The Stranger Your Questions Become

At first it's practical.

Where should we eat? Why is every third house somehow more beautiful than the last? Is everyone really this relaxed?

Then, somewhere around your second single-origin nitro cold brew and fourth glimpse of a hummingbird, your mind begins to wander.

Which is how you end up asking the kind of questions that only make sense in the desert.

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The Local Questions, Vol. 1 | Field Notes From Palm Springs
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The Local Questions, Vol. 1 | Field Notes From Palm Springs

If you spend even a little time here, you start to notice something strange.

Not the obvious stuff—sunshine, palm trees, mountains that look like a painted backdrop—but the quieter questions that keep popping up when you’re standing in line for coffee or driving down Palm Canyon wondering why everything feels slightly unreal in the best possible way.

Here are a few of those questions.

Call it field notes. Call it curiosity. Call it what happens when a desert refuses to behave like anywhere else.

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The Local History | Meet the Pioneer Women Who Created Palm Springs
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The Local History | Meet the Pioneer Women Who Created Palm Springs

Before Palm Springs was a mid-century modern oasis filled with Hollywood glitz, it was a rugged, isolated desert outpost. The oasis of palm trees and hot springs was a challenging place to live, yet in the early 20th century, a remarkable group of determined women settled this arid valley, laying the foundation for the glamorous resort town we know today.

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