The famed architect revamped his post-and-beam house in 2008, and it comes with an open plan, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a boulder-strewn site with a black-bottom pool.
Location: 1272 East Verbena Dr, Palm Springs, California
Price: $3,800,000
Year Built: 1955
Architect: Donald Wexler
Renovation Date: 2008
Renovation Architect: Lance O’Donnell
Renovation Interior Designer: Darren Brown
Footprint: 2,424 square feet (3 bedrooms, 2 baths)
Lot Size: 0.29 Acres
From the Agent: “On almost a third of an acre in fashionable Movie Colony East, two blocks from Ruth Hardy Park, the architect’s own home remains a testament to the timelessness of midcentury-modern design. Donald Wexler is widely considered the father of desert architecture in the Coachella Valley, famous for the Palm Springs International Airport, the Dinah Shore estate, and the innovative Steel Development Houses that dot the northern edge of the city. Here in the home where he and his family lived for almost 40 years, the architect employed a softer touch with an all-wood structure. In a collaborative intervention by Donald Wexler himself, architect Lance O’Donnell, and interior designer Darren Brown, the home was completely remodeled from top to bottom. The site itself is completely private, surrounded by a hedgerow, and invisible from the street. Inside, however, the property opens up to the house, surrounded by ancient boulders and a mature landscape of native plants, most likely the unsubstantiated work of designer Antone Dalu, who worked on most of Wexler’s projects in the 1950s. A substantial black-bottom swimming pool and detached spa offer views of the San Jacinto mountains in the distance.“
The property has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, and the City of Palm Springs has designated it a Historic Resource.
Photo: lance gerber
Donald Wexler worked as an apprentice under both Richard Neutra and William F. Cody.
Photo: lance gerber
Photo: lance gerber
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