John Lautner Motel

The John Lautner Desert Hot Springs Motel is for sale.

It's a great building, though what once was probably an isolated desert location is now on the edge of a housing development and trailer park. When we stayed there last year, our room got broken into:


But the price is reasonable.

Desert Hot Springs Motel

The Desert Hot Springs Motel, by John Lautner. Acrylic furniture by Charles Hollis Jones. That acrylic chair in the middle is reasonably comfortable but nearly impossible to get out of. You have to slide yourself off the side.

Volkswagen Spider

Near an auto repair yard outside Desert Hot Springs, California.

Proto-DEVO

In the library at the Beat Motel in Desert Hot Springs, CA.