Its recent renovation has transformed it into an achingly hip, terracotta-roofed, adults-only retreat, and its low-lit, eclectic, vintage style provides the perfect foil for the sunshine-bright Shag House.

Borrow bikes to cycle to nearby mid-century masterpieces or chill on your villa’s private patio, some with an outdoor bath and fire pit and enjoy the desert skies. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.Designed to float elegantly above your garden furniture, cantilever umbrellas are ideal for outdoor dining or poolside lounging during the heat of the summer.

Fun and colourful, this funky hotel has a classic structure with several floors of rooms with rainbow-coloured balconies set around a central pool area with soaring palms. From this vantage point the low, sleek lines and “discreet to the street” styling of Palm Springs’s typical mid-century architecture make it look as if the buildings are trying to flatten themselves along the valley floor to shrink out of view.

Meticulous logbooks catalogue in microscopic detail the menus offered over the years (seafood in aspic and chicken curry on New Year’s Eve 1980; beef wellington for the prime minister of Japan in 1990) and the china used. However within a couple of weeks the main fabric has faded in the sun and it now looks a lot less appealing.