Neutra's glass pavilion in the sand, immortalized by Slim Aarons and Julius Shulman.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Edgar Kaufmann, the Pittsburgh department store owner who had already commissioned Fallingwater, hired Richard Neutra in 1946 for a desert winter house. Neutra gave him a pinwheel of glass and Utah sandstone with sliding walls and a rooftop "gloriette" for sleeping in the wind. Julius Shulman photographed it at dusk in 1947, and Slim Aarons''s 1970 photograph Poolside Gossip, taken here, became the defining image of midcentury desert leisure. Barry Manilow owned it in the 1970s. A later couple spent years and a fortune on an exacting restoration, tracking down the original quarry for the stone.
