The home of Mr. Raymond Loewy, Palm Springs, California | Architects: Clark & Frey

Raymond Loewy is an industrial designer, the stamp of whose taste marks an unbelievably wide range of objects which you buy or use every day of your life (lipstick to locomotives; the new Studebaker, buses, the Lucky Strike cigarette package, refrigerators, ranges, radios). He is, moreover, a man of convictions about both design and living, believing that anyone who works as hard as he does needs relaxation in sharp contrast to his usual life. So, forsaking his Colonial farmhouse on Long Island, he has built a tiny house in Palm Springs, California, packed with ideas, many of them frankly experimental. 

The over-all plan is framing a pool with living wings, each room leading directly to the outdoors. Then the wide use of glass to afford protection and, when curtained, privacy, so that indoors and outdoors are inextricably fused. With this technique, rooms can be compact and easy to care for. They could never be cramped with such wide horizons. Mr. Loewy's use of native materials and colors serves to make his house a part of the desert, as the desert is part of the house. And though desert color is sharply accented, the effect is restful, since it is natural. Here is a house basically simple to maintain, undemanding and easygoing, which makes it perfect for anyone who enjoys relaxing in the country.

Though Raymond Loewy designed this house primarily for leisure, he can never resist trying out his de- sign theories to see if they are practicable. 

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source: House and Garden Magazine | May 1947