The West & Southwest
California
Because Palm Springs Modern will always be cool. California’s retro resort town is back—again. The mod renaissance kicked off with Jonathan Adler’s whimsical redo of the Parker Palm Springs in 2004. A hotel boom has followed. In the last year alone, both the Horizon Hotel and Colony Palms reopened after head-to-toe renovations, and Portland’s hip Ace hotel group is planning a desert outpost for 2009. Shoppers, meanwhile, have been pouring in from L.A. and San Diego to hunt for furniture, design accessories, and vintage clothes from the city’s thriving Uptown antiques district. And for those with an eye to the future (rather than the mid-century past), there’s the Backstreet Arts District across from the Parker, with galleries full of works by up-and-coming painters and photographers.
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