2432 Southridge

2432 SOUTHRIDGE

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A SOUTHRIDGE RESURGENCE | FEW HOMES OCCUPY THE PRIVATE SITES OF THIS GATED HILLSIDE ICON THAT IS HAVING MORE THAN A MOMENT IN THE SUN. Even Architectural Digest couldn’t ignore the bold individuality that defines this two-bedroom estate, regarded for its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and coveted Southridge location. “Built in 1973 on an exclusive ridge high atop Palm Springs—the list of neighbors once included Bob Hope, Steve McQueen and William Holden” noted the magazine. While celebrity homes often earn a place in the publication’s pages, this residence didn’t require a high-profile owner to turn the editors’ heads.

Past the understated guard gates of this quietly prestigious community, a sculptural pool blends into the blue sky and unbroken sight lines invite the eyes to get lost in the endless landscape from vantage points throughout the home. It is here we find an embodiment of the classic spirit of Southridge, an elevated enclave carved right into the mountain. When acclaimed interior designer Carleton Varney arrived to infuse the home’s modern architecture with his broad brushstrokes of Hollywood glamour, AD knew it needed to share these spaces with the world.

In any style, the Southridge resurgence is undeniable. After an era of dormancy among properties with long-time owners, the tide has turned, inviting a wave of meticulous renovations and brilliant reinventions along with it. Famed and little-seen masterpieces alike are once again spiking the radar for aficionados of all things modern Palm Springs. These impassioned buyers have reawakened a cachet that never dwindled for the few who have personally experienced this hillside slice of heaven.

At what feels like it could be the top of the world, just below the clouds and amidst the ancient mountains’ peaks, one of the most distinctive Palm Springs neighborhoods beckons as a view-laden legacy. Sinuous roads reward the occasional visitor with an enveloping sense of mystique. Magnificent panoramas await around each bend.

Since the 1960s – when John Lautner made architectural history with the organic Elrod House and William Cody completed the Southridge Glass House in the international style – each architect worked their site with pure imagination. Constraints of building on the side of a mountain became design opportunities for supreme privacy and the most dramatic of views. The result of their efforts and vision is a renowned collection of modern architecture inspired by a singular destination within a destination. Each Southridge home represents a rare address – and remains a golden opportunity for anyone with a dream to rise above the ordinary, quite literally.

This intriguing gem near the neighborhood’s crown overlooking Palm Springs speaks the effortless language of 1970s modern. Its rising glass walls and towering columns that support the patio’s angled overhang reveal an evolved elegance close on the heels of the midcentury heyday. A range of interior styles could make their mark here, thanks to the clean simplicity of the original intent.

Beginning at the modernist, double-doored statement entry, the home is infused with a soft illumination of natural light. Large-format marble and terrazzo floors complement the grand scale of an evocative layout skillfully framing every view.

2 BED 4.5 BATH 4,681 SF OF LIVING SPACE $6,800,000

Adjoining the expansive kitchen with a coffered ceiling is a large catering-friendly butler’s pantry, one of several unique aspects of the home. Highlights include a period-perfect entrance hall, a fireplace and library, and a sunlit atrium off the master bath – a quintessential midcentury design element that is increasingly scarce in its original form.

Among the designer wall treatments are a tiger-striped powder room and the blueand-white-striped walls of the breakfast room, transformed by Carleton Varney into an airy tented cabana. They were fashioned “in the Dorothy Draper manner,” the designer explained to Architectural Digest. Because, after all, “The house is in the clouds.”

As a vibrant footnote to this home, Varney has been president of Dorothy Draper and Company for more than 50 years. (Those bold vertical stripes are a respectful homage to the ones adorning the dust jacket of her 1939 book, Decorating Is Fun!) In this home and many others, Varney has carried on Draper’s devotion to happy environments and her unapologetic love affair with color, on which she founded her design firm in 1925.

Stepping through the glass doors of the living and dining areas, the views of snowcapped mountains and desert sunsets loom even nearer. Palm Springs’ timeless indoor-outdoor lifestyle is epitomized in covered living spaces running the length of the original pool with integrated spa. As palm trees rustle between the patio and the San Jacintos, the allure of Southridge forms in images more than words. At dusk, high above the city lights, these auspicious homes “in the clouds” enjoy a sense of history and place that cannot be replicated.

Adjoining the expansive kitchen with a coffered ceiling is a large catering-friendly butler’s pantry, one of several unique aspects of the home. Highlights include a period-perfect entrance hall, a fireplace and library, and a sunlit atrium off the master bath – a quintessential midcentury design element that is increasingly scarce in its original form.

Among the designer wall treatments are a tiger-striped powder room and the blueand-white-striped walls of the breakfast room, transformed by Carleton Varney into an airy tented cabana. They were fashioned “in the Dorothy Draper manner,” the designer explained to Architectural Digest. Because, after all, “The house is in the clouds.”

As a vibrant footnote to this home, Varney has been president of Dorothy Draper and Company for more than 50 years. (Those bold vertical stripes are a respectful homage to the ones adorning the dust jacket of her 1939 book, Decorating Is Fun!) In this home and many others, Varney has carried on Draper’s devotion to happy environments and her unapologetic love affair with color, on which she founded her design firm in 1925.

Stepping through the glass doors of the living and dining areas, the views of snowcapped mountains and desert sunsets loom even nearer. Palm Springs’ timeless indoor-outdoor lifestyle is epitomized in covered living spaces running the length of the original pool with integrated spa. As palm trees rustle between the patio and the San Jacintos, the allure of Southridge forms in images more than words. At dusk, high above the city lights, these auspicious homes “in the clouds” enjoy a sense of history and place that cannot be replicated.

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