Showing posts with label Joshua Tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joshua Tree. Show all posts

Spirit Wind Joshua Tree

Spirit Wind Joshua Tree






Spirit Wind Joshua Tree is an exceptional place. My brother and sister-in-law recently made it theirs and are finishing and restoring it. It was originally designed and built in the early 2000s as the dream home of a talented architect. After he lost it in the recession,

Return To Joshua Tree

Recently, we made our annual trip to Joshua Tree and Palm Springs. We stayed at Green Acres as usual, but this time we got to check out the second amazing cabin on the property. The best part was

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This dreamy sounding (hello saxophone) Kurt Vile video filmed at Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree could not speak to my interests more. Cannot wait for the new album this fall

I've loved LA designer Beatrice Valenzuela's shoes for a while (I have a pair of tejidos I'm still excited to break out this summer), so I was excited when she revealed her latest project this week. It's a dreamy Airbnb rental in Echo Park she renovated with her husband who designed many of the furnishings and light fixtures. The Moroccan tiles and Heather Taylor Home textiles make it even more beautiful. What a fun place to stay in LA. 

Have you been wanting to learn how to weave? I love Janelle Pietrzak's weavings and she's just introduced the first in a series of kits that collect her favorite materials and show you how to create artful weavings like hers. 

Enjoying the #apieceapartwoman series on Instagram and their blog. Inspiring women and dreamy minimalism.

Infinite cute.

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I'm loving the fashion world's jet setting cruise schedule. On the heels of LV in Palm Springs, Dior's Spring 2016 Cruise show took place in the south of France at Pierre Cardin's 'Palais Bulles' or Bubble Palace. The old mixed with the new as Raf Simons' modern-hearted collection hearkened back to the classic Dior Bar shape and the fashion pack palled around with Cardin himself who was in attendance.

If I lived in LA, I'd be checking out this exhibition on rock & roll billboards.

My expert-gardener sister-in-law alerted me to this Oakland startup selling 'uglies' which may solve food waste and water waste problems.

Loving everything about this editorial and interview on The Dreslyn with LA-based stylist Sissy Sainte-Marie and her photographer husband Eddie Chacon. She is a major inspiration.

This insanely meticulously designed and hand-crafted house in Joshua Tree is blowing my mind.

A Sunday song (the uncut version is a friend's jukebox power move).

Photo via Buro247

Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch
For the third time in as many years, we drove to Joshua Tree for a much-needed high desert getaway. We stayed at the same cabin as we did last year, a special spot rife with weird, wonderful, decorative details the owners have put into the place. It was originally a chicken and turkey ranch until it became a full-on hippie commune in the late 60s and early 70s. According to Green Acres’ owners, Gram Parsons (whose specter and Cosmic American music still casts a near-spiritual vibe over J Tree) and Keith Richards spent time hanging out at the ranch. A fact like this is impossible for me to ignore and imbues the place with even more mystique than that provided by the otherworldly landscape and sound baths at the Integratron. This year I read Keith Richards’ autobiography Life as a companion piece to last year’s Gram Parsons biography Twenty Thousand Roads.

Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch
Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch
Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch

I wore my new Flax by Jean Englehart dress, we ate seitan sandwiches at our favorite restaurant in town, Crossroads Cafe, and I stopped by the new and more visible location of bkbceramics where I picked up a small ceramic dish and a post card by High Desert Test Sites. A non-profit organization with an inspiring mission to enact temporary, intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant conceptual art in the high desert, HDTS seems to embody the draw of this place and to gather the people drawn by it.

Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch
Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch

Joshua Tree Green Acres RanchDuring the day we passed red barrel cacti on a hike to the beautiful and serene 49 Palms Oasis before heading over to Pappy & Harriet’s and spending the afternoon traveling down dusty unpaved roads in search of the real estate listings I stalk year-round. At night, we shut off all the lights, stretched out on outdoor lounge chairs and hunkered down under Mexican blankets and in my case, a newly acquired vintage Levi’s shearling jacket, to stargaze. It’s easy to forget what darkness looks like living in a city — a fact thrown further into relief when we got back and I listened to an interview with the author of The End of Night, a book which explores how little darkness is left on Earth and the impact it has on its inhabitants. We saw some of the biggest, brightest shooting stars we’d ever seen.
Joshua Tree Green Acres Ranch
Joshua Tree Green Acres RanchOn the way to our second stop in Palm Springs, we drove through Joshua Tree National Park stopping at Cap Rock and Cholla Cactus Garden and watching the high Mojave desert turn into the low Colorado.
Joshua Tree Cap Rock
Joshua Tree Cholla Cactus Garden
Joshua Tree Cholla Cactus Garden
Joshua Tree Cholla Cactus Garden

Pioneertown To Palm Springs

 Last weekend we headed south to see Dum Dum Girls at Pappy & Harriet's, stay at the Pioneertown Motel in the high desert, drive through Joshua Tree and seek out some sun in Palm Springs. Here's what it looked like.