The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher.
After "languishing for decades" in upstate New York, the house has been relocated to Palm Springs, California, where the museum plans to showcase and preserve it.
A foundation that manages the house gifted it to the museum to be part of its permanent collection, moving it from a storage unit in New York to southern California.
Originally assembled in just 10 days, the home was designed by Swiss-American architect Frey, who went on to work extensively in the Palm Springs area from 1939 until he died in 1998, and Kocher, then editor of the magazine Architectural Record. Albert Frey's Aluminaire House has been reassembled in Palm Springs
LA-based architect Leo Marmol of Marmol Radzinor, which recently completed California's tallest residential skyscraper, lead a team of architects and engineers that reassembled Aluminaire House in California.
Marmol, who was a personal friend of Frey's, said the project is a tribute to the late architect's legacy.
"I knew him personally while he was still alive, and he has had such an important impact on Palm Springs," Marmol told Dezeen. "I saw this project as a tribute to his legacy."
The three-storey house has a boxy frame with an entry program that is pushed back and framed by pilotis. These support the cantilevered ...