In 2004 the Former Mery Griffin’s Resort and Givenchy Spa property Asked Jonathan Adler to Design the Parker Palm Springs Hotel. This hotel is on my favorite places to escape when I need a quick break from the city of Angeles also known as LA. This hotel has a vibe everyone can aspire. Not only is it comfy, it is also very glamorous with mood-enhancing energies that is appealingly eccentric. With Jonathan Adler’s launch of his hip home-décor brand, you can literally bring home any of his retro , modern finds right to your home. Palm Springs is favored with for a little R&R. In his case, that means research and reconnaissance. "I have uncovered layer upon layer of vintage shops," the 38-year-old New Yorker says. "Just when you think you've seen it all, you discover a place that sells used lingerie, and that's where you'll find a vintage Givenchy silk shirt."
There was one Givenchy, however, that it took a while for Adler to get his hands on. That was Merv Griffin's Resort & Givenchy Spa, an extravagant bit of architecture—even for Palm Springs—with an exterior that looked like a Versace version of Versailles. Opened in 1959 as California's first Holiday Inn, the hotel became singing cowboy Gene Autry's Melody Ranch until fellow crooner Griffin revamped it in the 1990's as a luxury resort that played host to Robert Downey Jr. (in his wilder days) and Barbra Streisand (who had a wall demolished to link two villas). "I had driven by it many times," Adler says, "and always thought, What the hell is that?"
He found out when hotelier Jack Parker commissioned him to turn the Givenchy into Le Parker Meridien Palm Springs. Now, standing between the breeze-block valet parking area and the orange-lacquered lobby doors, Adler say, “the design mantra that guided his makeover of this grande dame of desert getaways: "To unite happiness and chic."
Palm Springs undergone a regentrification over the last years, as newcomers connect with the glamour of another era and the fifties' futurist vision of resort life. I Love it hear!
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