Lisa Marie Hart, Author at Palm Springs Life

Alfonso Navarro’s Cathedral City Showroom Offers Vintage Interior Finds

Lisa Marie Hart — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

As a kid growing up in Mexico, Alfonso Navarro says his “incredibly stylish” mother set him on his first interior design project: his own bedroom. “I was interested in architecture, design, and art from a really young age — mainly from films and music videos,” he says. Their vacations to Palm Springs also made a mark. He remembers spotting Bob Hope’s “spaceship” house on the Southridge hill and dining at Ken Kellogg’s Chart House — both leaving a lasting impression.

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Design Trio Transforms Homes at The Thermal Club

Lisa Marie Hart — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

At The Thermal Club, three creative forces are shaping the visual language of luxury. Interior designer Candice Coleman, tile artisan Fina Meraz, and cabinetry expert Raychelle Devilla have collaborated for nearly a decade — not as a firm but as a fluid alliance built on taste, trust, and technical mastery. Their synergy is striking: It’s about knowing their craft, learning from each other, and creating spaces as exhilarating as the cars on the track.

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The Place to Be: Downtown Indio’s New Hub for Local Makers

Lisa Marie Hart — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Every era in Indio has had its place. In the 1960s, it was McMahan’s Furniture, a family-owned chain that lingers only in faded photographs. For decades before and since, it has been Yellow Mart, where generations of families have found their workwear, school uniforms, and camping gear.

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Artist Aaron Glasson Builds a Creative Desert Escape in the High Desert

Lisa Marie Hart — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:46:07 +0000

Late-afternoon sunlight filters through a window the size of a Hula-Hoop in Aaron Glassons’ revamped homestead cabin in Landers. The soft glow touches artwork on the walls and shelves — some his own pieces, others created by artists who have stayed here from around the world.

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Restored Lear House Showcases Hollywood Regency Design

Lisa Marie Hart — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

In Palm Springs, entrance is presence. Many cultivate it for their own homes and look for it in others. A home either tempts the eyes with curb appeal, or it falls forgettably flat.

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How a Madison Club Residence Unlocked New Views With Strategic Siting

Lisa Marie Hart — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:12:54 +0000

Ron “Ronnie” and Shantel “Shawnie” Sloy live life in the fast lane — as long as it’s glamorous. When the neighboring houses lean into straight lines, they opt for sweeping curves. When plans call for a single pool facing the golf course, they add a second upstairs off the primary suite. (Follow the floating staircase and glide across the glass catwalk.) And though the vibrant couple call Portland home, Ronnie’s persona wouldn’t be the same without his year-round, sun-kissed tan. His closet teems with color-coordinated golf attire and over 400 pairs of custom-designed golf shoes, rivaling his wife’s well-heeled wardrobe.

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7 Nostalgic Décor Items to Add to Your Home

Lisa Marie Hart — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Redecorating? Check out these Palm Springs home stores where you can find modern design objects inspired by vintage styles — from portable radios to chic sconces that look like Jell-O.

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How to Find Your Home at BIGHORN Golf Club in Palm Desert

Lisa Marie Hart — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

What’s on your wish list? That is one of the first, and most important, questions that each member of the sales team with BIGHORN Properties will ask a prospective buyer of a BIGHORN home. The answer is always revelatory and provides the sales associate with almost everything needed to identify a property that both excites and exceeds the buyer’s expectations.

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What to See, Do, and Experience During Modernism Week October 2025

Lisa Marie Hart — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Golden light, crisp evenings, and a long weekend of midcentury magic. This month marks the spirited return of Modernism Week’s intimate fall edition. The festival, which marked 20 years in February, introduced its October gathering in 2013, distilling the signature excitement into four delightfully haunting days.

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The Midcentury Stan Sackley House That Hid a Steve Chase Time Capsule

Lisa Marie Hart — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000

If you want to know the real story of any neighborhood, ask the gardener. He’s seen more than anyone and remembers it all. Beyond the horror stories that neighbors swap — like the new owners who hastily gutted their midcentury gem — are the murkier, out-of-reach backstories. The gardener’s your inside man.

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Architectural Visionaries Shaping BIGHORN Golf Club: Guy Dreier and Kristi Hanson

Lisa Marie Hart — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Within BIGHORN Golf Club, spectacular architecture delights the eye and ignites the imagination. A reverence for the land and a cohesive palette enhances the artful variety of residential and community structures — a collection that exudes strength, beauty, and vitality.

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Design Within Reach Transforms Palm Desert’s Wave House

Lisa Marie Hart — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The emotion hits without warning, like a wave breaking out of flat water. One minute you’re admiring the rolling roofline, the midcentury materials palette, the classic furnishings swathed in crisp Maharam stripes. The next, you’re scanning for a seat just to take it all in. You — no exaggeration — need a moment to process the rush.

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Modern Masterpiece by Architect Lance O’Donnell Epitomizes Palm Springs Living

Lisa Marie Hart — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:52:41 +0000

Jack Garrity and Tom Rosato will embrace hard work to sip from the good life. That said, tackling a complete gut renovation of their New York City apartment in 2018 felt like guzzling a potent 13-month cocktail of city regulations, sleepless nights, and apology gift baskets for their neighbors.

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Inside Interior Designer Michelle Boudreau’s Big Bear Lake Getaway

Lisa Marie Hart — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A Fox in the kitchen, a bird in the bathroom, and a bunny in the bedroom — these creatures inhabit the walls of designer Michelle Boudreau’s retreat near Big Bear Lake. Each framed vintage wildlife painting adds a whimsical character to the modern fairy tale that the Palm Springs–based designer has created in her two-story hideaway. Here, she combines the warmth of a cozy ski chalet with contemporary refinement — and without a wince of cabin kitsch.

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Designer Jeffrey Neve Does Maximalism Right at Home in Cathedral City

Lisa Marie Hart — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Interior designer Jeffrey Neve bases his eponymous firm in the Bay Area, but his heart belongs to the desert. “I grew up in Dana Point, so we used to come out every year for Easter,” he says. “There’s nothing like Palm Springs in February and March – it’s such a relief to have the sunshine and 70-degree weather. It feels so good.”

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6 Design-Driven Products for a Desert Aesthetic at Home

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:51:04 +0000

Bowls, platters, and trays are part of a full collection that holds a secret identity. Designed for everyday use, Mud Australia’s beautiful porcelain dinnerware and serving pieces transition from the oven or microwave to the table or buffet, then straight into the dishwasher.

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How to Install a Supergraphic on Your Wall at Home for Major Color

Lisa Marie Hart — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:40:55 +0000

First things first: It’s all paint. “I’ve tried decals,” artist and muralist Brian Wolbaum says. “They’re a pain — even the small ones.” He put down a deposit on his Cody Place condo in South Palm Springs a year before moving in, giving him time to plan the groovy, supersize murals and the bright furnishings that round out his eye-popping designs.

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Del Webb Explore and Atelier 27 Open in Palm Desert

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 30 May 2025 22:47:37 +0000

A pair of Palm Desert newcomers aim to offer something for everyone.

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Meet the 2025 Women Who Lead Honorees

Lisa Marie Hart — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:55:59 +0000

Ask a woman how she became a leader, and she’ll likely mention someone who shaped her path — a mother, a mentor, or a meaningful experience that set her mission in motion. Leadership, after all, isn’t about a title. It’s about earnest impact. It’s about exploring your purpose, acting with conviction, and uplifting others as you climb.

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William Krisel–Designed Home Reimagined for Modern Living

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:41:50 +0000

“Resort living at its best!” touted a 1959 brochure for Racquet Club Road Estates. Homes designed by William Krisel of Palmer & Krisel Architects and built by the Alexander Construction Company promised “the most dazzling view in all of Palm Springs,” three-ton air-conditioners, built-in appliances, and “luxurious wall-to-wall carpeting throughout.” Krisel ensured variety in plan, elevation, and roofline across the development of almost 550 homes, shaping the neighborhood’s distinct character.

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Palm Springs Welcomes Back Design Within Reach

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:39 +0000

At long last, Design Within Reach — which briefly operated in the Uptown Design District in 2009 — has returned to mod-wild Palm Springs with authentic classics by internationally revered designers. Opened during February’s Modernism Week at the Thompson Palm Springs hotel, DWR presents timeless pieces like the Eames Lounge Chair, Nelson Bubble Lamps, and other icons of midcentury design as well as innovative works by today’s leading designers.

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Inside a Trackside Retreat at The Thermal Club

Lisa Marie Hart — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Through the high-security gate at The Thermal Club awaits a high-intensity experience both on and off the thundering track. For the ultimate in motorsports immersion, the club’s requisite residential component ensures members never need to leave the action. Race all day, toast to the day’s triumphs, rise with the sun, and do it all over again.

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Creative Duo Blends Art and Architecture at Star Tile

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:46:42 +0000

“I feel like Star Tile couldn’t exist if it wasn’t based in the desert,” says co-founder Andrea “AK” Keller of the boutique ceramic studio and showroom she opened with Mikayla Mitchell in Yucca Valley in 2023. “Our work is born from the raw beauty of the desert and from loving nature. That’s why we’re here and why we create what we do. I feel so lucky to be living and working in such an extraordinary place.”

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Seattle Architect Makes Palm Springs His New Home

Lisa Marie Hart — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:32:44 +0000

Architect Lane Williams and his wife, Debra, recently became desert transplants, having moved his Seattle-based practice to Palm Springs. He designed his new Movie Colony home, built by Scott Cullens of Palm Pacific Construction, after visiting the Coachella Valley since the 1990s.
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New Vinyl Listening Lounge Adds to Local Music Culture in Indio

Lisa Marie Hart — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:23:50 +0000

Past a deep red rose in a bud vase on the bar, Rosemary Hi-Fi owner Adrian Romero makes his next move. He lets the tonearm touch down on a vintage LP, soft as a falling petal, and the grooviest, most funkified version of “Ain’t No Sunshine” fills the air. For six minutes, a familiar song explores what is, to most ears, unfamiliar musical territory.

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