What is the name of the desert house designed by Richard Neutra for the Kaufmann family in Palm Springs?

The desert house designed by Richard Neutra for the Kaufmann family in Palm Springs is the Kaufmann Desert House.

Richard Neutra designed the house in 1946 for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., the Pittsburgh department-store businessman who had also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. Located in Palm Springs, California, the house translated modernist ideas into a desert setting, using broad planes, large areas of glass, and strong horizontal lines to connect indoor rooms with the surrounding landscape.

Its design is associated with the International Style and helped establish Palm Springs as a major center of mid-century modern architecture. The house is sometimes called simply the Kaufmann House, but “Kaufmann Desert House” is the clearest canonical name and distinguishes it from other Kaufmann-related buildings.

The property later became widely known through photographs by Slim Aarons, especially images of glamorous mid-century poolside life. It is also recognized as a Class 1 Historic Site by Palm Springs and remains one of Neutra’s best-known works.