Congratulations to local architecture aficionados for their campaign to bring Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House to Palm Springs. Mayor Steve Pougnet announced last week that the 1931 experiment in prefab modern materials, such as aluminum, is coming to the city. He doesn’t know exactly where it’s going, but it could land on the event space in…
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Is N.Y.’s All-Metal Modernist Landmark Going to Palm Springs?
After being soundly rejected by residents of Sunnyside, Queens, a currently homeless 1931 case study house known as the Aluminaire, which has been credited with bringing the International Style stateside, could be headed all the way to Palm Springs, California. The mayor of Palm Springs wants to raise $600K to bring the home out of storage and add…
Pougnet leads charge to bring Aluminaire House to Palm Springs
One of the most pivotal — and tiny — examples of early modern American architecture could find a new home in the desert. Mayor Steve Pougnet is leading the charge to raise the necessary funds to purchase and bring Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House to Palm Springs. The home was designed and built in 1931 as…