In-Person Modernism Week Announced For April: Palm Springs

PALM SPRINGS, CA — It was announced Monday that in-person Modernism Week events traditionally scheduled each February in Palm Springs will move to April for 2021 amid coronavirus concerns.

"We realize that it will not be possible to provide in-person events during our annual February dates, however we are optimistic that we will be able to provide safer and more enjoyable in-person tours and programs in April as conditions improve," said William Kopelk, Modernism Week chairman.

In-person events are now scheduled April 8-18, 2021, with tickets going on sale at 12 p.m. January 1 at modernismweek.com. Participants can view the schedule and summaries of all April programs at the website during the last week of December.

The April in-person activities will feature more than 20 tours and events in the Palm Springs area, including two designer featured homes that will be open for timed, ticketed, socially distanced tours, and the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale, which will be organized to allow for social distancing and timed entry, according to event organizers.

Other April events will include a variety of outdoor walking tours; tours of Sunnylands, Frank Sinatra’s former estate, and the Lautner Compound; narrated self-driving tours of Palm Springs architecture; self-guided modern landscape and outdoor neighborhood tours in Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells; fashion events; vintage car exhibitions; and tours of newly constructed "architecturally significant" private homes in Desert Palisades.

For those craving the annual February event, there will be a Modernism Week Online Experience that includes a curated lineup of more than 20 new video programs created specifically for Modernism Week, and encore presentations of past programs available for purchase and on-demand streaming February 1-28 at modernismweek.com.

Also online in February, Modernism Week will offer an online auction February 1-14 featuring "one-of-a-kind architectural experiences and unique, limited specialty items not normally available to the public," according to organizers.