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The Desert Wave

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06/12/2021

Best Kept Original! Thanks for the recent award! 🌊

06/05/2021

“Firmitas, utilitas and venustas (strength, utility and beauty). The Wave House has all three in spades.” —- 🌊 Check out our review by ! Link in bio.

05/17/2021

The and did such an incredible job collaborating on the design of our desert botanical garden! Many specimens were grown locally at the . Read more in at the link in bio.

04/20/2021

Reserve this weekend at The Desert Wave.

A midcentury getaway just a short ride from downtown Palm Springs and Palm Springs International Airport.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, The Desert Wave is a stand-alone one-bedroom house with a full kitchen, outdoor cedar soaking tub, king-size bedroom, and two private bathrooms with rain showers. Built in 1955 as a desert getaway, it was meticulously restored by and was unveiled at earlier this year.

With a full kitchen, vintage modernist furniture, private native desert gardens by the of Echo Park, and the industry’s strictest health and safety protocols, The Desert Wave offers total isolation and peace of mind in a private mid-century escape.

To reserve your stay, and for detailed information on our health and safety protocols, please visit our website in bio or call (213) 487-0424.

03/04/2021

A midcentury escape wouldn’t be complete without a jazz LP and glass of amaro.

Next to a personal whiskey and amaro bar is a turntable with curated vintage records, a and vintage sound system. All underneath our iconic wavey roofline 🌊

02/26/2021

Walter S. White’s first office — c. 1949. Located on the north side of Highway 111 as it enters Palm Desert. The mitred glass corner and redwood-stake fence were both signatures of White’s designs. Unusual at its time, the building’s plans shows both office space as well as a kitchen and playroom for his 3 young children.

02/17/2021

This view shows the master bedroom and bathroom from outside — in 2020 and 2018 before we started restoration work. In the spirit of Mies van der Rohe and other architects working around the midcentury, Walter S. White designed the north-south block wall to continue from inside the bathroom to the outside. Once boarded up, the shower’s glass enclosure similarly continues out several feet beyond the outermost line of the house. A screen was later added after Miles Bates lived at the house, and is now the site of our private cactus garden. In a reference to White, we’ve designed the bedroom light fixtures and wood paneling to continue from the wall of the bedroom outside into the garden. You’ll also notice a at right in the pre-restoration photo a concrete block wall later added — after determining this wasn’t original and probably added to block the desert sun (we were lucky it wasn’t structural!) we replaced the wall with sliding steel doors custom fabricated based on White’s original details.

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02/02/2021

Back in June we had the enormous pleasure of hosting a virtual tour and conversation with our friends at the London based ! Check out the tour and chat between and Catherine Croft of the C20 at the link in bio.

01/15/2021

Swipe through the history of ! This view captures the kitchen in 2020, 2018, and 1955.

The kitchen is located in the northwest corner of the house. A mitred corner window sits in the clerestory above the kitchen; such windows were made popular by Los Angeles-based architect Rudolph Schindler, for whom Walter S. White had worked. Archival images of the house show what was likely a prefabricated kitchen unit containing a stainless steel sink, teal cabinetry, a ribbon of above-counter storage behind obscured glass, and White’s design for upper cabinetry. worked to replicate this; behind the panels are a modern refrigerator and pull-out freezer drawers. An induction range, exhaust venting, and convection oven are hidden from view. Lighting is contained in the steel U-channel below the glue-laminated beam, which was an original White detail (he used fluorescent, replaced with color-tunable LED). The table lamp is the only “ceiling” lighting in the project and is cantilevered off the paneled wall to match White’s intent. Lighting the house was a major challenge due to the construction of the roof — no lighting originally touched the ceiling!

Photos: (2020), (1955)

01/04/2021

Happy New Year from The Desert Wave! After a meticulous two year long restoration by we opened the historic Miles C. Bates “Wave” House to the public earlier this year during 2020. At a diminutive 827 square feet, who could now imagine nearly 1000 MW visitors passing through our doors in just 3 days! Here are a few shots taken back in February of our inaugural event with ! We’re looking forward to a 2021 that looks a lot more like this!

10/07/2020

Did architect Walter S. White ever expect his house to travel all the way to Russia?! Check us out in ! Link in bio.

10/02/2020

Hot desert days call for a spritz and the chilled cedar ofuro soaking tub 🍹 desert wave

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Palm Desert, CA
92210, 92211, 92255, 92260, 92261

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