Other structures built with similar themes--similar window walls supported by posts and beams and open floor plans, assisting in blurring the line between inside and outside,
As you drive further down the road, a vast collection of mid-century modern furnishings distinguished by a streamlined, minimalist design appear through the towers of glass.
Once you see this, you know you're in the Design District, the hipster locale where shopping for modern is like exploring another time in another place, a time-machine back to the middle years of the last century.
Inside one of the mid-century modern buildings midway through the Design District is a La MOD, one of the largest mid-century modern shopping venues in town, furnishings and accessories fill several rooms with signature styles from who's who list of designers--Eames, Paulin, McCobb and Nelson, to name a few.
You can't help but to walk around and stare at the unique pieces, exploring every curve and line. In one of the store's nooks a Calka boomerang desk ($75,000), an Arredoluce Triennale reading lamp ($7500), and Palm Springs artist Robert Larkin's gray and white glass panels accented with robin's egg blue ($9800), exciting pieces that give Palm Springs shoppers modern design within reach.
"The desk is something you'll only see in a museum," says James Claude, who owns the store with his partner, Miguel Linares. "This boomerang desk is one of thirty that were made in 1970." Claude sweeps his arm around the coordinated furniture vignette adding, "the pieces together are an equation for balance."
Claude affirms the fact that Palm Springs is the the best spot for vistors to get an eclectic choice of reasonably priced, original mid-century modern items. "We have a wide selection of furniture and accessories that you can't get anywhere else in the world."