selling out! palm springs modernism week 2013

Palm Springs, California is considered the mother of all things (desert) mid-century modern. And Palm Springs Modernism Week 2013, held from February 14th - 24th, 2013 is an eleven day desert modernism extravaganza.

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If 2013 is anything like 2012, tickets to the week's events will sell out quicker than you can say mid-century mid-atomic.


I'll give you four good reasons why some portion of this week is worth experiencing.

1) Bus Tours

Take a hip bus tour of the whole area. The event runs two different set of bus tours, both an Express  and a Premier, tickets run from $60/person upwards.

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2) Home Tours

Take a private guided tour of Annenberg's Sunnylands (I saw it when it had just opened to the public earlier this year). Other tours feature the Frey House II as well as Frank Sinatra's Twin Palms Estate and others. Walking tours of celebrity homes and other significant modern housing tracts start at $15/per and the private home tours can run up to $60 a ticket.

Sunnylands Photo courtesy of ModernismWeek

3) Modernism Show

How many websites have your poured over looking for furniture and accessories for your mid-century modern home? Well my frustrated decorista, look no further. From the convention website:

The Palm Springs Convention Center will host 75 noted national and international decorative and fine arts dealers presenting all design movements of the 20th Century. A wide range of vintage 20th Century furniture and decorative arts will be presented and sold by 90 exhibitors, many from the West Coast, but some who come from as far away as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Dallas, Denver, and Miami. 

Here is a link to the 2013 exhibitors as of this date. A veritable bargain at $20/per ticket.

On the show floor, photo courtesy of 20cdesign

4) Vintage Clothing 

Flash back to now. Think Mad Men. Think Jackie O. Think Alfred Hitchcock. Sit back relax. Stop thinking and enjoy Flash Forward: A Vintage Clothing Retrospective. Tickets are $35 per.

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If 2013 is anything like 2012 there will be an iPhone app to help you navigate the some hundred-plus events running throughout the week. Crazy daddy-o.

Palm Springs Modernism Week 2013, Feb 14-24, event information, tickets and details can be found at ModernismWeek.com. See you there. Did you have any doubt?

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