Parker Palm Springs, Palm Springs, USA
Palm Springs is where the Hollywood crowd partied the weekends away in the 1950s and 1960s as a wave of Modernist dream homes and hotels rose from the desert. Now Palm Springs is back, with these icons restored and reinvented for a new generation. Chief in the crop is the Parker, built in the 1950s and redesigned three years ago.
The hippie-chic interior looks like the flamboyant 1960s home of a radical sophisticate. The place is tongue-in-cheek, but finger-on-pulse. Who goes LA weekenders, design aficionados, global hedonists. Top tip Avoid it in high summer; even at the poolside, its just too hot. Must-do Book in with the Palm Springs Art Museum for a tour of architect Albert Freys magical hillside home. Downside The Parker is not big on kids.Contact Parker Palm Springs (+1 760 770 5000; www.theparkerpalmsprings.com)
Rates From $309 a room a night
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