The Agents
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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