Peter Moruzzi

Palm Springs Paradise (eBook, ePUB)

Vintage Photographs from America's Desert Playground

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society's expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early days of the desert paradise, various architectural masterworks, such as the fabulous El Mirador Hotel and the extraordinary, outrageous, and irreverent people of Palm Springs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gibbs Smith
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781423639923
• Artikelnr.: 53003524

Autorenporträt

An architectural historian by profession, Peter Moruzzi is an acknowledged expert on midcentury Modern architecture and design. He is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an internationally recognized historic preservation organization, and the writer/director of Desert Holiday, a documentary film chronicling the history of Palm Springs as seen through vintage postcards. He resides in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and in Palm Springs.