Frank Sinatra's Twin Palms Estate - Modernism Week's Man About Modernism episode 4

In this episode of Man About Modernism for Modernism Week Stephen Collins visits Frank Sinatra's first home in Palm Springs, the iconic Twin Palms Estate. Designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1947, it was drawn up and built in only 6 months!
Stephen Collins (Property Envy) hosts Man About Modernism for Modernism Week with a handsome command of the screen and wealth of expertise in all things design. Stephen Collins will be your guide through this expansive and unique mid-century treasure trove that is featured during Modernism Week in Palm Springs. Relish in sophisticated old-Hollywood glamour and experience how the rich and famous play, stay, and sway.

[@MediaWatchDawg]

There's something about modernism design set against a desert backdrop that's both relaxing and invigorating.

[@danielcox8619]

Very nice, my boss and I painted the whole place, inside and out, around 2000, took us weeks, love that beautiful home.

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[@raulduke6105]

If those walls could talk I’d listen

[@MsMesem]

I had family who built a house this style in the early 60's. As a young child I really appreciated the design and details. It was a wonderful place overlooking the Pacific.

[@chrisallen7911]

I can just see Joan Crawford swimming in the pool with Steve Cochran in The Damned Don't Cry. So glad to see if looks very much as it did in the movie in 1950.

[@thornbird6768]

Wonderful house , love the retro style . This home stands the test of time in today’s modernist architecture 👍🏻👍🏻

[@sharonmarinucci1881]

I recently had a chance to actually spend some lovely afternoons in a home very similar to this in new York state. The property had many beautiful flowers TREES lawns and ponds . The wildlife was abundant. I believe it was built late fifties. Early sixties . No swimming pool through. Great place to meditate on nature

[@lenevee4925]

How fabulous 💙

[@margeryfranko1850]

It’s a gorgeous place ... thanks for sharing

[@kennethsalter9998]

I wish I could get Married in that house! Just amazing! Frank was the man!

[@bethbartlett5692]

Nice subject - MidCentury/Modernism - Hope to find more of your Modernism Productions...

[@evelynoconnor3062]

A TRULY MARVELLOUS DECOR!

[@RunTheAtlas]

I love the modern architecture in Palm Springs! Just went there last week for modernism week and found the most colorful modern houses, vlog in my channel 🎦🌴

[@bridgettegallagher3372]

you still have your vlog

[@bridgettegallagher3372]

I would love to live there just the way it is perfect

[@hobbit5242]

Reminds me of my elementary school.

[@MrSmallpoxSatan]

This is gonna be good 🙏🏻

[@jamesh7571]

Absolutely Fantastic!!! Would of loved to see the cars that lived here too, Now let's have those cocktails on the patio bro

[@bobareebop]

Martinis at 4:30, dinner at 6!

[@galaxia3d239]

WITH ALL THIS COMFORT I WOULD LOSE MY SLEEP

[@paulletchworth2036]

2022 Frank your missed !!!!!RIP 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@stevebradnam8053]

Absolutely

[@scoobedoo1008]

for what it's worth: that's a Crane sink/toothbrush holder/medicine cabinet with sidelights combo in the bathroom, mid-50's

[@michaelstevenmartin3478]

When you hear "iconic," take a drink.

[@edfone1489]

Absolutely!

[@sarahpatrick9533]

You’ll be drunk by the end of the video!😂😂

[@jamesmcinnis208]

If you do it on "actually" also you'll go blind.

[@dbrowne8640]

I tried to keep up but fell out of my chair.

[@EvolutDesign]

D R U N K. :D

[@shafrobert]

Would have made a good guest house for Bob Hope's home.

[@itstheburnz]

He owned this so long ago....40s.. and he dropped in here, hardly lived here I was told..Such hype..geeze..this is a corporate rental.. .. Eva and kids stayed here mostly. Frank had several homes...mainly his huge compound in Las Palmas neighborhood was his real "home".

[@AnnieD1101]

I like the older Hines so much detail now days it's just thrown together sad I would take 1 like that over any new 1tiday

[@gunillabergmark3091]

Very lovley colors turquiose and compositions....☆ Shaping too 🧡😚🌿💧🦉

[@wggmn3]

Good architecture & home design-- but too bad where not in the post-war era: the 50's when Hope & Sinatra were still alive.. although the 60's & even the 70's weren't bad either.. today everything CA has become a museum...

[@TommyJordanRE]

Crazy that was one of his many homes. Homes in Palm Springs are stuck in time capsules!

[@jamesmcinnis208]

They're called "houses."

[@wolfpak8228]

Wonder what his new place looks like?

[@jimbuttitta5328]

Not in this video, but a previous one: Do they actually allow people to just meander thru his house like that?

[@user-bx7nw1ve6y]

When you 'insure' something, you take out a policy. 'Ensuring' means to assure.

[@FormerMPSGT]

Did they use this house in Oceans 11?

[@CygnusGF]

This house appeared in Ocean's Eleven, right?

[@jacobstratton1140]

Couldn't find anything about it online but it looks dead on like the one in the movie. I think you might be right.

[@raulduke6105]

@@jacobstratton1140 sure tax write off, brilliant!

[@bethelle9099]

The abstract painting...... Is it a Sinatra or is it an Artanis...............?

[@danielholmquist3449]

My Grad Dad Frank ol Blue eyes.

[@lilianebeeckman2901]

Ook big maar toch huiselijk voor zover mijn oog reikt....👀 daar kan ik wel vertoeven. Knap ! Ping! Ping! Groetjes

[@johndough3125]

Marilyn Monroe probably swam in that swimming pool

[@philippeplouchart8156]

Please redo the sound...not distinct enough. Too much echo.

[@RoseSharon7777]

Absolutely much?

[@golfmaniac007]

love this house but i like bob hopes space home better

[@MySpace662]

Lot of living space was deprived in the design of the house.

[@tearoomfilms]

3:09 - Awkward...

[@jordikeoni]

What is so "awkward?"

[@FreedomFighter-cr5xg]

If I bought that property the first thing I'd do is cut down those annoying useless twin palms , then change the name of the Estate to Eagle's Nest Estate

[@healthyamerican]

i cant understand either one of them

[@jennifer86010]

The piano is an inexpensive Yamaha player piano which is very much out of tune, most likely placed there by the current owners of the home. I'm sure that the executors of Frank's estate either kept his original grand piano or sold it to the highest bidder.

[@rob041]

jennifer86010 Frank had long moved out of this house by the time of his death in '98. He only lived here a few years from 1947 when he had it built to 1957 (I have also herd he left in 1953). The furnishings of this house have been chosen by the current owners to match closely to the period the home was built. Only a few items, like the recording equipment are original to the house. Frank livedfor many years at a larger estate in nearby Rancho Mirage where many of his possessions, including pianos remained after it was sold not long before his death.

[@jake1776]

More historic Victorian homes were destroyed due to the foolish modernism craze than any other trend. I’m happy his home is still there in original condition, but modernism as a trend was a poison to historic preservation. Half of San Francisco’s historic buildings were leveled in the 1960s and nobody paid a price for that.

[@beths4934]

Bob Hope's house is better than Frank's- oh my!

[@felixcat4346]

You silly Walkers Palm Springs is at the edge of the Muhammad desert not in the middle

[@5H4V3D89]

two squares in a box

[@JasonBroaddus]

Am I the only one who HATES seeing that TV mounted on the wall?? So out of place and ugly.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Nerve-wracking music.

[@robjohnson8214]

Terrible "tour". More like a couple of guys just talking in Frank's house.

[@bradklaatu]

The house is actually in the city of Rancho Mirage.

[@artabn]

That is the second home he’d lived in and built.

[@gallantrycrossx1915]

It looks like a motel.

[@nancycarroll5641]

Please wear booties, next time everyone, that is a guest, in these homes!

[@ashmyblunt]

These fools don't deserve to be in his home.

[@1960taylor]

POS.

[@addmarx7207]

#overrated

[@jameslaumand3686]

Bill pizza sucks

[@jacquelinejefferson1876]

Don’t you get sick of everything being ‘iconic’ these days. Most overused word in the English language. 🌹

[@hemmarket]

Yuck ! I love how all the strange and hideous design elements that were the 1950's have been glossed over and called mid-century modern. Does that include orange & green carpeting and dark brown wanes coating ? When the most noticeable feature of your expensive landscaping is unwashed cement, you know you have a bad-looking, unimaginative home. Looks like a really nice fallout shelter.

[@annetteadams7955]

Ignorant reply

[@WoodlandPoetry]

Orange was his favorite color.

[@reanetsemoleleki8219]

I'm interested in mid century modern architecture not celebrity trivia can anyone point me to a video or channel like that? All I ever seen to find on KZbin is pretentious bullshit.

[@dmachn333]

This home reminded me of the brady bunch! no taste only a hard fanatic of Sinatra could say this is master piece! then again Frank never did have good taste in architecture, and good things in life, he was like the old Italian mafia cosanostra all flashy with no substance and no real taste. I buy homes fix it and sell it, I my self would not paid more then 1,000,000 and the reason I put that prize is for the size of the property not for the house, then again I'm in Florida I don't live in the west coast, with all ya liberals.

[@dodgingbullets3503]

Problem is, none of the furniture is original..🫣