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"While most of the country shivers under a deluge of snow and ice, aficionados of modern design are basking in temperatures hovering near 90 in sunny Palm Springs. Modernism Week, the annual festival celebrating the glories of midcentury design, has once again lured the faithful to the California desert for 11 days of tours, talks, films, and shopping galore.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe sunny California capital of midcentury design, Palm Springs plays host to its 14th annual Modernism Week. Photo: \u00A9 Richard Broadwell/Alamy\n\nMore than a thousand visitors converged on the Palm Springs Convention Center for the gala preview of the Modernism Show &amp;amp; Sale, a perennial highlight of the event. The joint was jumping as avid collectors surveyed the wares of 82 exhibitors, including L.A. mainstays Reform Gallery and Fat Chance, antiquaire extraordinaire Mark McDonald of Hudson, New York, and Paris's Alexandre Huygevelde.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe Palm Springs Convention Center hosts the annual Modernism Show &amp;amp; Sale. Photo courtesy of the Palm Springs Convention Center\n\nOpening-night attendees included designers Craig Bassam, Scott Fellows, and James Magni; photographer Tim Street-Porter and his wife, author Annie Kelly; dealers Joel Chen and Patrick Dragonette; and former Modernism Week chairman, Jacques Pierre Caussin, who was honored by the City of Palm Springs during a special ceremony. Designer Jamie Bush and decorative-arts czar Adam Blackman were both spied closing deals.\n\nPinterestFacebookEighty-two exhibitors participate in the Modernism Show &amp;amp; Sale; pictured here is the booth of L.A.-based Fat Chance. Photo: Cockeyed Caravan, Courtesy of Palm Springs Modernism Show &amp;amp; Sale\n\nThe presence of President Barack Obama at nearby Sunnylands, the famed Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage, added an extra frisson of excitement to the opening weekend. Sadly for some, scheduled tours of the sprawling property\u2014a landmark collaboration between architect A. Quincy Jones and decorator Billy Haines\u2014had to be rescheduled.\n\nNevertheless, there is more than enough masterful modernism to go around, much of it highlighted in nightly projections on buildings throughout Palm Springs that identify architects and dates of execution\u2014a nice touch.\n\nPinterestFacebookNightly projections on the sides of buildings throughout Palm Springs cleverly identify architects and the dates of their work. Photo: David A. Lee\n\nThrough February 23; modernismweek.com\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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