Bucket List

I'm not a bucket list sort of person.

 I prefer not to fixate on having specific experiences. 

HOWEVER,

if I did keep a list, being inside The Kaufmann House would be on it.

I don't know what it is about architecture and design that makes my heart flutter,

but it does.

I get a beautiful ache from aestecially pleasing enviornments.

I became aware of The Kaufmann House during visits to Palm Springs, 

years before I became a home owner in the desert.

I was in awe of the house from many published photos.

Then, when I moved to a house down the street from the iconic structure, part of my desert routine was stealing glimpses of the upper level porch rising above the main entrance.

Today I had a private tour of the grounds and house.

IT'S SPECTACULAR

  Grand linear lines puncture the arid landscape. 

Buff-colored sandstone, steel, wood, and glass.

Neutra's vision was to build "a machine in the garden, juxtaposing a foreign, man-made construct onto a wild, unrefined natural setting."  

He achieved his goal, and I crossed something off of my phantom bucket list.

I took photos, but respecting that this is a private residence and I was a guest, I'm not posting them.

the photos below are from the architecture firm Marmol  Radziner

who restored the house beginning in 1993.