October 23, 2020 By JOAN MCKENNA
When Keith Markovitz and Todd Monaghan launched TTK Represents in 2008, Keith was already deeply involved in local architecture and Todd was leaving a corporate career in architectural glazing and design. Chris Menrad soon came on board, bringing his own passion for design, art, and restoration. It made sense, then, that TTK Represents would focus its considerable talent on selling the Coachella Valley’s architecturally significant homes, including its globally renowned midcentury modern structures.
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May 22, 2020 By MIRANDA CAUDELL
“Art and architecture are serious passions of mine,” says real estate agent Keith Markovitz. So serious, he and partner Todd Monaghan have made buying and selling unique, interesting architecture their life’s work — from the stunning Ken Kellogg Doolittle residence in Joshua Tree to the Dinah Shore Estate in Palm Springs to the former midcentury modern home of actor Laurence Harvey (a record-breaking $9.5 million transaction, the highest in the history of the Old Las Palmas neighborhood in Palm Springs
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February 12, 2019 By Jack Flemming
The latest record-breaker came in Old Las Palmas, where a Midcentury post-and-beam originally built for actor Laurence Harvey recently traded hands for $9 million. It’s the most expensive home ever sold in the historic neighborhood and the second-priciest in Palm Springs history — behind only Bob Hope’s Modernist home that sold for $13 million three years ago.
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October 10, 2018 By Nancy Keates
Events like the Coachella Festival have transformed the Coachella Valley from sleepy seniors community to a happening destination for all ages...
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May 14, 2018 By Amy DiPierro
The Little Tuscany neighborhood of Palm Springs joined an elite club at the end of last month: Coachella Valley addresses where a home has sold for more than $1,000 per-square-foot.
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March 14, 2018 By Hannah Martin
... But first they did what they often do when they acquire a property: consult with their real estate representative Keith Markovitz of TTK Represents, an agent team with HK Lane/Christie's International Real Estate.
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February 07, 2018 By Stephen Bridges
When it was built in 1954, the Edris House must have appeared as if a spaceship had landed amongst the red-tiled roofs and white stucco haciendas that dotted the canyon. With its Jetsons roofline, a flying “V” suspended over clerestory windows held up by a massive stone fireplace, the home looks strikingly modern even today.
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January 04, 2018 By Barbara Eldredge
Designed by prolific SoCal architect E. Stewart Williams, this modernist gem in Palm Springs could be yours for $3.2 million. It was built in 1954 for movie theater and tomato farm owner William Edris and his wife, Marjorie, who gave the architect carte blanche to design a home that looked “as if it grew out of the ground rather than falling out of the sky.”
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December 29, 2017 By Neal J. Leitereg
The Edris House, a modernist design by architect E. Stewart Williams, has returned to the market in Palm Springs at $3.2 million, down $1 million from when it first listed earlier this year. Built in 1952 for movie theater and farm owner William Edris and his wife, Marjorie, the knoll-top estate encompasses slightly more than two-thirds of an acre with commanding mountain and city views.
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November 20, 2017 By Ellen Paris
Primary real estate markets for homebuyers in Los Angeles and San Francisco continue to climb the slippery slope of near unaffordable homeownership. Even potential buyers making respectable incomes have trouble affording a starter home in a good neighborhood with good schools.
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October 11, 2017 By Melissa Feldman
A burgeoning cultural scene, new hotels, and a fresh crowd are signaling a revival. Here’s how to secure your own sun-drenched, modernist retreat.
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September 27, 2017 By Lauren Ro
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got.
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September 08, 2017 By Adrian Glick Kudler and Jenna Chandler
The listing calls this house "the most important architectural house you may have never seen" and yes yes yes, it's obviously flown under the radar for way too long.
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May 14, 2017 By Elijah Chiland
This wonderful modernist time capsule in Palm Springs was built in 1957 and looks very much ready for a bridge party—and maybe a few drinks by the pool. Per the listing, the four-bedroom home’s interior was designed by Arthur Elrod (who later commissioned one of John Lautner’s most supervillain-y masterpieces). The 3,281-square-foot residence, located in the Old Las Palmas neighborhood, has been updated by designer James Reid, but the quintessentially midcentury aesthetic has clearly been well-preserved.
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April 02, 2017 By Lisa Marie Hart
For those who have lived on the East Coast or explored the Old World’s nooks and crannies, California can feel a bit new-ish. “Antique shops” teem with relics we actually remember from our grandparents’ living room and flatware our mom laid on the kitchen table. You don’t have to be a Luddite to crave more past in your present.
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March 28, 2017 By Alison Clare Steingold
In April, 1955, Kendrick Bangs Kellogg was off to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Arizona, where the University of Colorado student had been fully moved by Wright’s concept of design evolving from its own context.
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February 16, 2017 By Lauren Beale
We usher in Modernism Week with a contemporary renovation in Palm Springs. Set behind a geometric, three-dimensional concrete block wall, the single-story Midcentury Modern is entered through opaque-glass-and-steel doors. Architect Charles DuBois is known for designing some of the desert community's more distinctive houses, including this one in the Vista Las Palmas neighborhood.
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February 06, 2017 By Elijah Chiland
On the market for the first time since 1971, this Indian Wells home looks as though it’s been all but frozen in time since right around then—a little wear and tear aside. Constructed in 1962, the three-bedroom, three-bath residence was designed by prominent Palm Desert modernist William Cody. As the listing notes, the home is more or less Cody’s take on the modern ranch-style homes of his mentor Cliff May. In 1968, it made an appearance in Architectural Digest as the personal residence of designer Walter Dunivant.
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January 29, 2017 By Rosalie Murphy
Homeowner J. R. Roberts talks about owning his dream home, the Edris House designed by architect E. Stewart Williams. Video by Marilyn Chung.
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December 21, 2016 By Sam Dangremond
While legendary actress Zsa Zsa Gabor died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, the icon also left her mark on a midcentury modern home she owned in Palm Springs, which is now on the market.
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December 20, 2016 By RACHEL KASHDAN
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress and socialite famous for her glamorous lifestyle, passed away on Sunday. But now, her legendary and lavish lifestyle lives on in many ways — including through one of her former homes.
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December 01, 2016 By Kristina Hacker
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the late actress known for her glamorous lifestyle and extravagant tastes, apparently also had a taste for the understated. She once owned this charming midcentury modern home in Palm Springs, which Curbed reports has just hit the market for $969,000 with Tyler Morgan, Todd Monaghan and Keith Markovitz of TTK Represents, affiliated with HK Lane/Christie’s International Real Estate. The low-slung home is nestled in the winding hillside of Cahuilla Hills and walls of glass throughout allow the desert landscape to take center stage. A breezy open floorplan flows seamlessly throughout the 1,784 square feet and features a great room with a stone fireplace, a corner kitchen and a bedroom suite. Outside, there is a fully detached casita that could function as a guest suite or studio and a built-in pool.
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May 26, 2016 By Neal J. Leitereg
Entrepreneur and designer Marc Ware, who two decades ago founded the sportswear company Hot Cotton, has raised the bar in Palm Springs' luxury market with a record-setting sale.
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May 12, 2016 By Neal J. Leitereg
A desert retreat once owned by screen legend Cary Grant has sold in The Movie Colony area of Palm Springs for $3.4 million, the priciest sale historically for the neighborhood named for the Hollywood stars who lived there decades ago.
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April 29, 2016 By Bonnie McCarthy
Retracting floor-to-ceiling walls and pivoting glass doors open this modern hillside home in Rancho Mirage to expansive vistas of Coachella Valley and the desert floor below.
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April 11, 2016 By Jeff Wattenhofer
A stunning modernist home designed by John Lautner in 1969 is back on the market in Palm Springs. The famed Elrod House has just been listed for $10.49 million, according to The Spaces.
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April 04, 2016 By Alexandria Abramian
Chris Pardo is not a performer, but nearly every one of the designer's projects is touched by the Palm Springs music scene. Witness the new 32-room boutique hotel Arrive, centered on a courtyard outfitted for DJs. Pardo also has completed designs for Virgin Hotel, set to open in 2018; he likens the 144-room Richard Branson-owned property to the ultimate box seat for viewing live music. "The cool thing about it is why Virgin chose this site: It overlooks the new open land that is planned to be a cool events center with stages and live music," he says, referencing a 50,000-square-foot park in Palm Springs that will include a stage with a capacity of 3,000.
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March 30, 2016 By Devin Alessio
Glamorous stars like Cary Grant and Elizabeth Taylor headed to Palm Springs to get away from it all, and now, you can, too — in Steve McQueen's former pad. Of course, you'll have to have a few million dollars to spare — $4.595 million to be exact.
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March 23, 2016 By Jennifer Tzeses
The home that late actor Steve McQueen once shared with actress Ali MacGraw is a post-and-beam midcentury-modern beauty, the perfect match for the "king of cool." In fact, the house—in the gated community of Southridge, just a mile and a half from downtown Palm Springs—remains virtually untouched since McQueen's ownership. Built in 1964 by architect Hugh Kaptur, the residence is made up of two intersecting glass boxes framed in steel.
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February 16, 2016 By Neal J. Leitereg
Beverly Hills entrepreneur and designer Marc Ware, founder of the sportswear company Hot Cotton, has put his modern estate in Palm Springs on the market for $8.95 million. Designed by Don Boss, a former associate of modernist architect A. Quincy Jones, the dramatic residence is distinguished by an over-arching elemental aesthetic: Walls of floor-to-ceiling glass bring the native landscapes, palms and gardens by landscape architect Steve Martino inside. Seven negative-edge swimming pools surround the home, creating the illusion of floating on water.
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January 28, 2016 By
As the town transforms, so goes Modernism Week. Just a few short years ago, I talked a couple of friends into driving out to Palm Springs for a kitschy event called the Retro Martini Party. MAYBE, there were 50 guests in attendance. I remember oohing and awing at one of the first restored midcentury houses I’d seen in Palm Springs, complete with round pavers and the never-before-seen fire glass in the fireplace! How 2007!
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March 13, 2015 By Melissa Allison
For all the mid-century modern homes that are torn down in Los Angeles to make way for shinier, new houses, the desert town of Palm Springs, California tries to compensate.
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May 30, 2014 By Peter Haldeman
It was Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs — or the Dinah, as it’s known — five days of Sapphic revelry that every April draws some 15,000 women from around the country to this sun-washed city 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
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March 30, 2014 By jwilliams
Built in 1950 by famed desert architect William Cody, AIA, this ranch-style home sits on the 18th fairway of Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage and according to the listing was originally occupied by the club's founder Barney Hinkle.
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March 28, 2014 By Dominique Fong
Barney Hinkle, one of the founders of the Thunderbird Country Club, was the original owner of this historic home on the 18th fairway.
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March 08, 2014 By Alexandria Abramian
There is no more telling gauge of Palm Springs' white-hot real estate rebound than the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio recently purchased Dinah Shore's former house.
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March 03, 2014 By Amy Ambatielos
The prehistoric-looking entrance to this 10-acre estate in Joshua Tree, Calif., reveals a curved home built on top of a pile of boulders.
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January 31, 2014 By Dominique Fong
"My wife and I recently purchased a very interesting, though unconventional, building site in the Californian desert…"
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January 31, 2014 By Dominique Fong
Vertical lines on split face block concrete stripe the outside columns and some of the interior walls of this modern Rancho Mirage home.
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January 30, 2014 By Dominique Fong
In March 1986, Bev and Jay Doolittle began envisioning an otherworldly home perched high among desert-baked boulders near Joshua Tree National Park.
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January 28, 2014 By Morris Newman
It’d be easier to lasso the wind than to find words for Jay and Bev Doolittle’s house in Joshua Tree.
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July 14, 2013 By jwilliams
Oooh, here's one to go in on with friends and/or family (no judging if you have neither).
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June 11, 2013 By Lauren Beale
Merv Griffin’s former retreat in La Quinta has sold for $7 million.
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June 08, 2013 By Jim Powers
The homes of late Hollywood greats have been hitting the real estate market of late, and they are beginning to find buyers.
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June 29, 2012 By ELLEN PARIS
While some Coachella music festival attendees camped on-site, others paid $80,000 to rent a private estate in La Quinta.
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June 18, 2012 By Lauren Beale
A Moroccan-style estate that was once owned by entertainer Merv Griffin is on the market in La Quinta at $9.5 million.
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May 10, 2012 By Lauren Schuker
Merv Griffin's former 40-acre estate near Palm Springs has been reduced by 34% percent to $9.5 million
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April 30, 2012 By Ellen Paris
Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles drawing on influences throughout time and place.
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April 29, 2011 By Ellen Paris
Bill Scheffler and Ann Sheffer of Westport, Conn., bought three luxury properties in Palm Springs over the last 18 months.
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March 05, 2011 By Lauren Beale
Actress Jennifer Aniston has listed her Beverly Hills estate for sale at $42 million.
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September 17, 2010 By Juliet Chung
Porcupine Creek, the 249-acre estate near Palm Springs, Calif., that used to be owned by Yellowstone Club founders Tim and Edra Blixseth, is on the market for $55 million, 27% less than its original asking price in February.
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July 28, 2010 By Janice Kleinschmidt.
In 2008, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie paid $60 million for an Aix-en-Provence chateau.
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April 17, 2009 By Christina S.N. Lewis
Val Kilmer, who's failed to find a buyer for parts of his 6,000-acre New Mexico ranch, has now listed all of it for $33 million.
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June 29, 2008 By Ann Brenoff
Lenny Dykstra, the scrappy, major league ball-playing spark plug who became a stock market savant, has listed his Lake Sherwood Georgian estate for $24.9 million.
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