Frey House #2

 Last week was Modernism Week in Palm Springs. Actually Modernism Week / Fall. The big one is in Spring. But that is neither here nor there.

Ed, Lynn, and I went to the Frey House #2. Albert Frey was a Swiss Architect who moved to the US. At one point, he and his mentor traveled across the United States for inspiration and study. When he got to Palm Springs, he stopped. He loved the color, the light, and the starkness of the desert.  So he moved here and began designing many of the desert buildings in the Palm Springs area.

We visited Frey House #2, which was his home and study from 1963 until his death. As with most architect homes, it was oddly spare and small. His home was built high above Palm Springs. It is closed to the public, but was open this one day.

Yes, cheesy me. But the big rock was incorporated into the house itself.

View from the home

The original "bedroom" was in the same space as the living / dining areas.

Frey's dining area was the shelf above the couch.

You can see the pool behind. The corrugated steel roof gets the wavey reflections from the pool.

Actually, the bedroom that was built for his father after his mother passed away and he moved in.

Lynn and Eddie standing outside the tiny home.