Palm Springs New Design


Move over mid-century modern, there's a new interior design for the desert city--Southwestern filled with saturated color and brighter than ever before.

If you enter the lobby of the Saguaro Hotel at the south end of the city, you'll find saturated colors throughout, including sunshine-colored background rippled panels that match the amber wicker chairs. 

To be sure, the mid-century concrete floor is there instead of tiles, matching mid-twentieth century design, which consists of floor-to-ceiling glass and concrete among minimalist furnishings.

Why would the Saguaro do that? It surly has to do with chain's other hotel by the same name in upscale Scottsdale, which is run by Joie de Vivre Hotels. If you've ever been to Scottsdale, the place is nothing but Southwest design.

 Inside and out, the Saguaro bucks the mid-century architecture majority that lines the big mountain from its blasting, colorful exterior to the Southwest flavor of the interior.

 Is this new Southwest design in Palm Springs a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down?