This Palm Springs Home Channels Mid-century Cool

2025 Best of Year Winner for Large Country House

Partners in life and in work, architect Steven Harris and designer Lucien Rees Roberts—both Interior Design Hall of Fame members—gave full expression to their shared aesthetic in building this desert retreat for themselves. The low-slung, 9,950-square-foot house pays homage to the Palm Springs neighborhood’s stock of iconic mid-century modern residences. Set in a garden that merges seamlessly with the adjoining golf course, the home is shielded from the street by a forecourt wall bearing a striking bas-relief mural by Mig Perkins that cleverly incorporates the front door. Inside, a restrained palette of rosewood, travertine, brick, and glass deemphasizes the architecture, allowing landscape and light to take center stage through floor-to-ceiling windows. A sunken floor creates soaring ceiling heights in Roberts’s painting studio, while an underground garage—as pristine as a white-cube gallery—houses Harris’s impressive car collection.

STEVEN HARRIS; KEVIN BLUSEWICZ; FRANCESCO GALETTO (STEVEN HARRIS ARCHITECTS); LUCIEN REES ROBERTS; EUNJIN MIN; DAVID KELLY; REGINA CASSORLA (RRP).

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