With Modernism Week about to kick off within the Coachella Valley, 'Queer Eye' star Bobby Berk shares his favourite spots within the desert.
Marquee music festivals Coachella and Stagecoach are returning to Riverside County in 2022, Palm Springs’ beloved Modernism Week runs Feb. 17 to 27, and the desert playground beckons with a bunch of recent spots.
“I’m actually drawn to Palm Springs as an escape from my regular, typically hectic, schedule,” says design professional and Emmy-nominated Queer Eye host Bobby Berk, who's presently laborious at work restoring and designing a trip rental, Casa Tierra, within the space. “It’s a spot to fully unwind, absolutely calm down, poolside ideally, and take within the beautiful desert panorama.”
Berk, who’s been heading to the realm for getaways since transferring to California in 2015, provides “Palm Springs, and certainly your entire Coachella Valley, continues to develop and entice guests from everywhere in the world.”
To See and Do
Intersect Palm Springs Artwork Honest
The occasion begins with the Intersect Palm Springs artwork honest — previously referred to as Artwork Palm Springs — welcoming a roster of fifty artwork and design galleries, working Feb. 10 to 13. The record of occasions features a dialog with Robert Longo and Jeffrey Deitch on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 12.
Modernism Week
At Modernism Week, which celebrates all issues midcentury fashionable, highlights embrace Saving Iconic Structure’s “A Night time for Preservation,” on the Donald Wexler-designed dwelling owned by Leonardo DiCaprio that's hardly ever opened for occasions and as soon as belonged to Dinah Shore; and a tour of a just lately restored dwelling designed by architect William Cody for actress Beverly Garland; a strolling tour of the Mesa, the quirky neighborhood Barry Manilow calls dwelling; and, in fact, the Palm Springs Modernism Week Present and Sale, that includes greater than 90 furnishings, decor and positive artwork sellers.
“I’m an enormous fan of architect Albert Frey, so I’m hoping to catch the tour of Cree Home,” says Berk of one other gem open for excursions. Maison Bleue Moderne by Michelle Boudreau Design can also be excessive on Berk’s record.
Palm Springs Downtown Park
Opened final fall and designed by Rios, the brand new two-acre Downtown Park is positioned throughout the road from the Palm Springs Artwork Museum (on the intersection of Belardo Street and Museum Manner). It options two lawns, palm groves, and a water characteristic impressed by the Tahquitz Canyon waterfall. (Close by and never a part of the park is the realm’s reinstated Marilyn Monroe statue, which has been criticized as sexist and “hyper-sexualized”).
DINING AND IMBIBING
Boozehounds
Canine-friendly restaurant and bar Boozehounds (2080 N. Palm Canyon Drive) boasts a devoted canine menu. “An important meal, a trendy area and your furry pal by your aspect? It doesn’t get significantly better than that,” says Berk, who totes alongside his pup Bimini.
Tailor Store
Sandfish Sushi & Whiskey chef Engin Onural takes inspiration from the Nineteen Twenties for his newest enterprise, the brand new speakeasy Tailor Store (140 W. By way of Lola).
Gigi’s
Gigi’s (333 E. Palm Canyon Drive) presents every little thing from wedge salads and deviled eggs to Lobster Thermidor pasta with indoor and out of doors seating and a firepit cocktail space.
SHOPPING
Queertique Boutique
“LGBTQ+ tradition is a defining side of Palm Springs, and Queertique [120 La Plaza] highlights the queer expertise,” says Berk. Promoting every little thing from artwork to attire to dwelling items from impartial queer artists, it’s the right one-stop store for supporting the neighborhood.
Scout
Jeff Holt and Peter West, the duo behind San Francisco’s Hewn, are opening Scout this spring in Cathedral Metropolis’s Perez Street Artwork & Design District, promoting gently used, high-quality items culled from their wide-ranging contact record of inside design insiders. It’s proper subsequent door to Hedge, a mainstay for classic equipment and furnishings that’s owned by Thomas Sharkey and Charles Pearson, Shirley MacLaine’s former assistant.
Fig & Nash
To complement the bustling enterprise at their Palm Canyon Drive decor store, companions Mick Fox and Dino Raimondi have opened a second Fig & Nash retailer (73200 El Paseo) in Palm Desert.
REST AND RELAXATION
Cheetah and Tiki Accommodations
Kitsch-minded hotelier Tracy Turco’s latest properties are the animal-print-filled 12-room Cheetah Lodge (from $142, 354 E. Stevens Street) and the 11-room Polynesian-themed Tiki Lodge (from $184, 1333 N. Indian Canyon Drive). The Tiki features a boutique that sells classic fashion clothes, footwear and make-up.
Azure Sky Lodge
The adults-only 14-room Azure Sky resort (from $350, 1661 S. Calle Palo Fierro), which can start accepting reservations Might 1, is the primary Palm Springs space property from Acme Hospitality, identified for Santa Barbara’s Helena Avenue Bakery and Loquita.
Hermann Bungalows
Opening March 1, the 24-room Hermann Bungalows (from $1,000, 1050 E. Palm Canyon) from designer Steve Hermann appears to the desert for its subdued and moody colour palette. Company are invited benefit from the facilities at Hermann’s L’Horizon Lodge and Spa subsequent door.
JW Marriott Desert Springs Spa
Billed as “the biggest spa in Palm Desert,” the renovated 38,000-square-foot spa on the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort (74-855 Nation Membership Drive) presents an intensive new therapy menu that features a Dermyoung Fast Restoration Facial ($199) devised by Harvard Medical Faculty pores and skin biologists. The property overlooks 450 acres of desert gardens, mountain views and lakes.
Casa Tierra
Berk will quickly full his seven-bedroom Spanish-style trip rental, Casa Tierra (@casatierra on Instagram). “I knew it was the right match,” he says. “My intention is to create a rental not like anything in the marketplace.” Attributable to be accomplished this spring, it should embrace two stand-alone casitas nestled right into a hillside on two-and-a-half acres simply exterior Palm Desert. He admits that his “most memorable journeys to the desert are those the place I didn’t even go away the place we have been staying.”
As for the place else Berk likes to go — when he does enterprise out — the Queer Eye star shares a couple of favorites:
Regionally owned Koffi (4 places) is his “go-to for morning espresso.”
On the La Serena Villas boutique resort (339 S. Belardo Rd.) he extremely recommends “grabbing a drink on the restaurant’s rooftop deck, Sugar Excessive.”
Berk calls Sunnylands Middle & Gardens (37977 Bob Hope Dr., Rancho Mirage), the previous Annenberg property, “a tranquil spot to spend a day admiring the beautiful interiors and desert-inspired gardens.”
He likes to discover Palm Canyon Drive. “Palm Canyon Drive has one thing for everybody,” says Berk, recalling memorable meals at Workshop and Sandfish. “I alway discover stylish mid-century treasures at Christopher Anthony.”
Berk’s alternative for a hike, Andreas Canyon Path At Indian Canyons, is finest skilled early within the morning. “It’s a easy one-mile path for a simple, and picturesque technique to begin your day,” he says.
“The constructing alone is value a go to,” says Berk of the Palm Springs Artwork Museum (101 Museum Dr.). “It’s an unbelievable mid-century area with 28 galleries, in addition to a separate Structure & Design Middle.”
A model of this story first appeared within the Feb. 11 challenge of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.