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Modernism, Take 2: Tweaking The ClichéNext weekend, the Palm Springs Modernism show will include high-end midcentury dealers from across the country, displaying sought-after furniture and promoting previously underappreciated designers. The rest of the year, dozens of furniture galleries, consignment stores and thrift shops line Palm Canyon Drive with Modernist classics, Hollywood Regency designs and custom furniture by local decorators. Davis' year-old store, Modern Homes, has hardware and furnishings for every inch of the house: poolside furniture, '50s-style upholstery fabrics, Mod wall coverings and address numbers designed by Richard Neutra.
Modernist design is the catalyst of the tourist and real estate explosion in Palm Springs, "one of the most concentrated preserves of Atomic Age architecture in California," according to Alan Hess, author of "Palm Springs Weekend." Tract homes that measure less than 2,000 square feet and cost less than $25,000 in the late '50s now list for $500,000. Often they are, in house-flipper lingo, "staged" with classic midcentury furniture by Harry Bertoia, George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, allowing purchasers to buy the lifestyle - lock, stock and barrel-back chair.
Now that anyone with a credit card or a preapproved mortgage can buy Modernism as an easy-to-assemble kit - copying room arrangements from fashion ads pro
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