Settled amid desert boulders on the border of Joshua tree, this organic modern masterpiece is known as the “High Desert House“. In 1986 artists Jay and Bev Doolittle commissioned architect Kendrick Bangs Kellog the design of the house on a building site they had just purchased. Kellog was given carte blanche by the couple. The construction took 5 years to complete from 1988 to 1993 and another 14 years for entrusted collaborator John Vurgin to finish the custom made interior.
The High Desert House is composed of 26 concrete columns that look like stems rising from the ground acting as a canopy. With no interiors walls, the columns are connected with wide sandblasted glass panels that seal the space letting light flow through open framed views of the desert and the sky.
When the interior was completed in 2014, Kendrick Bangs Kellog’s ‘High Desert House’ was described by the New York Times as the “most unsung great residence in America by one of architecture’s least-known major talents.”
Did you know: The house was in 2014 for $3 Million
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