
THUNDERBIRD HEIGHTS
Location: Rancho Mirage, CA
Joelle Nesen, Principal Designer
Morgan Thomas, Senior Designer
Architecture: Stuart Silk Architects
Photography: David Papazian

60's Palm Springs
Nesen had to balance the husband’s love of contemporary design with the wife’s penchant for a lighthearted take on the 1960s Palm Springs genre. “The architectural envelope is basically clean and modern,” the designer says, in keeping with the husband’s tastes, while, “The wife loves the pattern-on-pattern, granny-chic quality of old Palm Springs. Using that as a jumping off point, we wove together color and texture to create that playfulness.” - Luxe Magazine March-April 2018






"Inside the front door, Nesen, working with her associate and lead designer Morgan Thomas and her former associate Lucy Roland, ramped up the color factor with furnishings and finishes. Perhaps most striking is a kitchen wall tiled in a hue called yolk. The pattern, reminiscent of guitars, nods toward the instrument both the husband and wife play." - Luxe Magazine feature March-April 2018












