May 15, 2017
Host
George Smart
reports from February's Modernism Week
in Palm Springs, the Mecca for all things Mid-Century Modernist!
He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote
speakers from the week.
Annalisa Capurro,
aka Ms. Modernism, is a interior
designer, design educator, architectural historian, speaker,
writer, preservationist, MCM photographer, and mid-century design
afficionado who lives in the 1956 Russell Jack House in Sydney,
Australia. She is an educator at Design Centre Enmore and the
University of New South Wales. At Modernism Week 2017, she starred
in SEXY & CULTURE, six presentations on surprising topics related
to sexual mores in the MCM world. She love-love-loves the color
orange.
Brooke Hodge is an architect, journalist, and blogger for the New
York Times Style Magazine - and the Director of Architecture and
Design at the Palm Springs Art Museum, overseeing their huge
architectural assets including the Architecture and Design Center
and the 1964 Albert Frey house. She's worked for some of the
greatest names in design museums: the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the
Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
She's also into Japan, California, juggling, modeling hats, and
writing Mad Libs.
Besides
serving as Treasurer for Palm Springs Modernism Week, which is a
huge job, Mark Davis is Chair of the Aluminaire Foundation, dedicated to
preserving, moving, and rebuilding Albert Frey's and Lawrence
Kocher's iconic Aluminaire House from New York to Palm
Springs. Spoiler: they moved it. Next challenge,
getting it rebuilt. You can
help!