Poke Around Richard Neutra’s Iconic Kaufmann Desert House

THE KAUFMANN HOUSE BY RICHARD NEUTRA

Celebrities like Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and others often escaped to Palm Springs, hiring Modernist architects including John Lautner and Richard Neutra to design gravity-defying, eye-popping structures. And starting in the 1960s and 1970s, more and more people began to enjoy Palm Springs year-round, instead of just during the cooler months.