Hatton House (1947) in Rancho Mirage, CA, USA, by Albert Frey. Photo by Julius Shulman

Frey House II, Palm Springs, USA - Albert Frey

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Frey House II Situé à Palm Springs, Californie. Conçu par l'architecte Albert Frey en 1964. Photo. Lee F. Mindel. - source MCM Daily.

Frey House II by Albert Frey

Home of Industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Palm Springs.

Architect: Albert Frey

Images: Julius Shulman, 1947

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Albert Frey (1903-1998), one of the most important modern architects of our time, lived and worked in Palm Springs since 1934. 

Over a long and prolific career, he produced more than 200 building designs, including such notable local landmarks as the Palm Springs City Hall and the Aerial Tramway Valley Station with John Porter Clark. 

Frey House ll, his long-time residence is perched on the hillside at the west end of Tahquitz Canyon Way.  Frey House II, architect Albert Frey's second home in Palm Springs, completed in 1964.

Frey Residence II | Albert Frey

Palm Springs, CA | United States | 1963

Albert Frey’s own homes offered opportunies for experimentation. He built his first in 1940 on an open 0.8- hectare (2-acre) site on the valley floor at Paseo El Mirador. Originally little more than a sculpted cabin clad in aluminium, Frey later added a swimming pool and then remodelled extensively in 1953, adding a secondary circular bedroom pod. When he sold up in the early Sixties, the new owner demolished Frey House I. Frey, meanwhile, travelled upwards. He picked a hillside site 67 metres (220 ft) above Palm Springs, on the slopes of Tahquitz Canyon. From here, the city occupies the valley floor, with banks of glass framing the vista from within the house. The design process began with a careful study of the terrain and the sun’s movement, and an appreciation of this dramatic view. Again, the scale of the single-storey house is modest. A ribbed-metal roof shelters the glass-walled belvedere where the rock pushes through into the interior, forming a dramatic ‚bookend‘ or backstop to Frey’s dining table. This sits in a fluid, multifunctional living space with the bedroom to one side; service spaces and a galley kitchen are tucked away to the rear. An elliptical pool, also enjoying the open views, is the one luxury.

Images: © Bethany Nauert

Words: © thegreatdaydreamer

Burgess House (1950) in Palm Springs, CA, USA, by Albert Frey. Photo by Julius Shulman.

Built Landscape I, 2015, by Paul Davies, was included in Palm Springs Art Museum’s 2018 group exhibition, Eighty @ Eighty.

From the museum’s wall plaque-

Through a rich process of layering, mirroring, and mimicking, Davies explores the fusion of manmade and cultivated natural elements that comprise our environment. Reflecting a contemporary Southern California sensibility, his paintings are at once a dream of an idealized lifestyle made popular by midcentury modern architecture, and a commentary on how such structures interact with and fragment the world around us. This image references the unique periscope-like structure of architect Albert Frey’s first home in Palm Springs.

Davies’ work can currently be seen as part of Stark White gallery’s exhibition Surface Tension in Queenstown, New Zealand, on view until 8/20/23.

Contemporary Exterior San Francisco Inspiration for a large contemporary gray four-story stucco flat roof remodel

Albert Frey drawings for Frey House II, Palm Springs, CA