ExhibitionPalm Desert · On until February 2027
Tag Christof's photographs of desert modernism at Herman Miller's new Palm Desert store
Hot Line, a new photography show, traces the region's midcentury buildings and how they are lived in, adapted and preserved today.
Herman Miller has marked the opening of its largest North American shop by commissioning the photographer Tag Christof to look hard at the Palm Springs area's modernist buildings. The result, called Hot Line, is a set of new pictures made specially for the show, timed to arrive just before the October preview of Modernism Week (15–18 October 2026).
Christof's photographs follow the region's midcentury architecture and how it evolved, but the more interesting thread is what has happened since: buildings preserved, adapted and put to new uses as ways of living change. He describes them as "totems" of an optimism that now feels out of reach, and says he loves them even mid-transition. The brand's creative directors, Kim Colin and Sam Hecht, tie that idea of living well with change to the company's own outlook, which is as much as you would expect from a commissioning brand.
Still, the subject is a good one, and the show sets up a fair question about what modernism means now and how it carries on. Although Wallpaper* frames it as Palm Springs, the address given is in Palm Desert: Herman Miller, 73-425 El Paseo, Suite 110. It runs until Modernism Week 2027 in February, so it's worth a stop if you're in the valley for the architecture.
Our summary of a story from Wallpaper*, published 14 October 2026. Read the original
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