CELEBRATIONS: Happy Mid Mod Valentine's Day to you!

Happy Valentines Day, Mad for Mod readers! 

Vladimir Kagan sofa
The famed designer will participate in a conversation presented by Elle Decor 
at Palm Springs, CA's Modernism Week 2016, on Valentine's Day 

If you're lucky enough to be in Palm Springs, CA today, 
there is a multitude of events on offer at Modernism Week, 

most of them ticketed but some of them free. They include house tours, 

book talks, conversations with notable designers, an acclaimed film, 

and even a "think and drink happy hour program". 

 Among the February 14 highlights at Modernism Week:

• Unseen Midcentury Modern – Join author and photographer Dan Chavkin for a peek behind the covers of his new book.
• Do Just One Modern Thing with Danny Seo Presented by Bosch – Lifestyle expert and author on modern design and the simplified lifestyle.
• Hollywood Designs on TV and in Film Presented by West Edge Design
• The Modern Whiskey Drinker
• Ferguson Presents Design Insights: Danny Seo A Little Bit Country and a Little Bit Modern
• Modernism With a Twist – Think and drink happy hour program.   
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• Below, for stylish note-taking and more:

Princeton Architectural Press presents

grids and guides: a notebook for visual thinkers

A fun and fascinating volume, this engaging book "for
right- and left-brainers alike" contains 144 pages of varied
graph papers (great for architectural sketching) interspersed
with an eclectic array of charts and infographics that include:
musical instruments and their pitch ranges, perspective drawing,
knot tying, logical connectives (a bit beyond my understanding),
the golden ratio, and much more.

      Meanwhile, back at the festival ...

• ELLE DECOR Presents the Iconic Iconoclast Vladimir Kagan – a conversation between ELLE DECOR Editor in Chief Michael Boodro and furniture designer and legend Vladimir Kagan
• Iconic Houses, Film, and Preservation – 3 Ticket Package
• Gray Matters Premiere: Eileen Gray Documentary
• Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier

        Free

• Paul Kaplan Open Houses – Missed the tours?  Check out some of these classic  open houses.  Wander around to your heart’s content.
• Book Launch for William Krisel’s Palm Springs: the Language of Modernism 

Book jacket for William Krisel's Palm Springs
Authors: Heidi Creighton and Chris Menrad

Bonus pic, just because I like it:  
EZ Mod Kiss chair

A mini-tribute to Salvador Dali's iconic

"Mae West's Lips" sofa 
(1936)