I
“ KITCHEN
The gray and white striations of the marbled dining table play off the gray and white of tongue-and-groove millwork and simple Cambria stone-wrapped counters. LIVING ROOM
Jonathan Adler’s brass Puzzle chandelier illuminates Eero Saarinen’s Womb chair, a design from 1948. The panel above the fireplace is Cambria Clareanne.
4 6
C A M B R I A
S T Y L E
CS19_44_CoverStory_PalmSprings.indd 46
always make a playlist before I start a project,” says interior designer Michelle Boudreau. “Choosing songs helps get me in the spirit of the design.” For the renovation of her and her husband’s weekend home in Palm Springs, California, that meant Rat Pack jazz and ’70s surf rock. The melodies conjure up the golden-age heyday of the vacation mecca, when the desert city was the playground of Hollywood’s rich and famous and poolside cocktail parties were all the rage.
The project began when Californian Boudreau and her British husband returned to Los Angeles after a decade living in London. “The first thing I wanted was to buy a mid-century home I could reinterpret as my own,” Boudreau says. Palm Springs had long been a special city to her. “My grandmother took me there when I was young,” she explains. “I just adored the glamour of it all; the cocktails, the parties, the flowing caftans and fabulous jewelry. It’s magical!” It was also where she fell in love with midcentury architecture, touring the city’s myriad superb examples. (She cites Arthur Elrod’s legendary party pad in the James Bond flick Diamonds Are Forever as top of the list.)
Cambria designs shown: Ironsbridge (backsplash), White Cliff (countertops)
3/22/19 4:24 PM
