Subtle Reinvention - Palm Springs Home

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Words by Bronwyn Marshall

Photography by Phil Crozier

Interior Design by Stephanie Brown Inc

Conceptualized as an oasis within the desert, Palm Springs Home is a generous holiday house for its Canadian owners, which facilitates an immersion in place and becomes an escape from the colder winters up north. Stephanie Brown Inc reimagines the midcentury home through a respectful and openly connected approach that integrates a mostly monochromatic palette.

Originally built in the 1960s, the modernist residence’s history becomes the inspiration for its most recent chapter. Palm Springs Home retains the opportunistic spirit of its origins, with open spans and the introduction of far-stretching glazing facilitating open living. Spread across one singular level, the light-filled home becomes a place of escape and calm for its owners, integrating the warmth of the nearby desert and contrasting the landscape in Canada. Within the existing formal constraints of the house, a contemporary reworking ensures a readying for the next chapter, and a refinement of details, finishes and the various insertions throughout carry the original style into the future.

Palm Springs Home retains the opportunistic spirit of its origins, with open spans and the introduction of far-stretching glazing facilitating open living.

Stephanie Brown Inc ensures the landscape plays a key role in softening the architecture and integrating living elements among the built.

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