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Desert Palisades 7 | Wabi Sabi House
Desert Palisades 7 | Wabi Sabi House
Palm Springs, CA, United States
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Other Projects by Jill Lewis Architecture
Desert Palisades 7 | Wabi Sabi House
Palm Springs, CA, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
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On the lower slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains, where natural arroyos cut through boulder-strewn terrain, the Wabi Sabi House takes its shape from the land itself. The boomerang form wasn't imposed on the site, it emerged from it, positioning the structure toward the front of the property to shelter a private garden at the rear, while orienting each wing toward a distinct horizon: the city of Palm Springs to the east, windmills to the north, mountains to the west.
Three board-formed concrete pedestals step with the existing topography, anchoring the home while allowing the desert floor to read as continuous beneath it. One arroyo passes directly under the knuckle of the boomerang, where the structure pinches to an all-glass bridge, a threshold between the social living wing and the private bedroom wing. Standing there, you're suspended above the wash, with the two arms of the house converging to frame the valley on one side and the rear garden on the other. Landscape architect John Hreno of Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects ensured the drainage patterns remained intact, with water collecting in stone depressions below each bridge, the site working as it always has.
Above the concrete base, the main level is clad in charred cypress, steel, and expansive glazing. Porcelain floors and hemlock ceilings run uninterrupted from inside to out, erasing the threshold rather than just softening it. At the heart of the home, the kitchen and dining room open on both sides through 28-foot sliding panels: toward Palm Springs on one face, toward the pool terrace and a boulder berm backed by Mt. San Jacinto on the other. When the panels disappear into the walls, the room becomes a covered pavilion open to two landscapes simultaneously. When closed, the views remain fully held.
Each space is tuned to a different relationship with the desert. A low, 24-foot ribbon window in the family room draws the eye down to the desert floor, grasses, cacti, raking light. Tall, narrow openings in the bedroom wing offer vertical slices of sand, rock, and sky. The material palette; pale oak, honed Portuguese limestone, a Calacatta Vagli stone fireplace, pulls directly from the colors and textures underfoot outside.
The desert is a tough but beautiful collaborator. You can’t force your will on it, you have to listen. In Wabi Sabi House, we let the site guide us.
Architecture + Interiors: Jill Lewis Architecture
Developer: Palm Canyon Development
Photographer: Douglas Friedman
Landscape: Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
Stylist: Anita Sarsidi
Representation: Mcgraw PR
Staging: Francesca Grace Home
Select Art & Furniture: Super Simple
Three board-formed concrete pedestals step with the existing topography, anchoring the home while allowing the desert floor to read as continuous beneath it. One arroyo passes directly under the knuckle of the boomerang, where the structure pinches to an all-glass bridge, a threshold between the social living wing and the private bedroom wing. Standing there, you're suspended above the wash, with the two arms of the house converging to frame the valley on one side and the rear garden on the other. Landscape architect John Hreno of Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects ensured the drainage patterns remained intact, with water collecting in stone depressions below each bridge, the site working as it always has.
Above the concrete base, the main level is clad in charred cypress, steel, and expansive glazing. Porcelain floors and hemlock ceilings run uninterrupted from inside to out, erasing the threshold rather than just softening it. At the heart of the home, the kitchen and dining room open on both sides through 28-foot sliding panels: toward Palm Springs on one face, toward the pool terrace and a boulder berm backed by Mt. San Jacinto on the other. When the panels disappear into the walls, the room becomes a covered pavilion open to two landscapes simultaneously. When closed, the views remain fully held.
Each space is tuned to a different relationship with the desert. A low, 24-foot ribbon window in the family room draws the eye down to the desert floor, grasses, cacti, raking light. Tall, narrow openings in the bedroom wing offer vertical slices of sand, rock, and sky. The material palette; pale oak, honed Portuguese limestone, a Calacatta Vagli stone fireplace, pulls directly from the colors and textures underfoot outside.
The desert is a tough but beautiful collaborator. You can’t force your will on it, you have to listen. In Wabi Sabi House, we let the site guide us.
Architecture + Interiors: Jill Lewis Architecture
Developer: Palm Canyon Development
Photographer: Douglas Friedman
Landscape: Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
Stylist: Anita Sarsidi
Representation: Mcgraw PR
Staging: Francesca Grace Home
Select Art & Furniture: Super Simple
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