Villa Verde

Villa Verde began its life in the 1960s as a pleasant but non-descript Mid-Century residence in the storied Deepwell Estates neighborhood of Palm Springs, California. While the home’s architecture was modest, its essential gifts were clear: mature gardens, generous outdoor living areas, mountain views, and an effortless relationship between dwelling, climate, and landscape. Rather than overwrite those qualities, the design sought to reveal and intensify them, honoring Palm Springs’ celebrated design legacy while allowing the home to evolve beyond period nostalgia.

Unusually for R+B, the project was almost entirely an interior design effort focused on transforming the existing residence through atmosphere, materiality, furnishings, and use. Informed by the established gardens and wraparound outdoor spaces, the interiors were conceived as an extension of the landscape: colorful, relaxed, highly personal, and attuned to the rituals of desert living.

Interior curation brings together contemporary Milanese furniture, textiles created with female artisans in Mexico, Japanese ceramics, handcrafted objects, auction finds, and selected works from the owners’ Aspen collection. Each element carries its own origin and character, yet together they compose a home that feels balanced and lived in.

Villa Verde flourishes through the relationship of indoor and outdoor realms. Seamless decking connects rooms, terraces, poolside areas, and gathering spaces into a fluid sequence of experiences, while retractable awnings extend comfort and shade throughout the day. Handcrafted concrete benches embedded with Italian tile frame the entry, Jacopo Foggini A’Mare chairs animate the morning sitting area, and the south-facing dining and living deck becomes the natural center of evening life as the desert cools and the mountains gather the last light. The result is a sophisticated home designed for ease, movement, conversation, retreat, and daily pleasure.

Named for the many shades of green embedded in its décor and for its deep connection to the lush life of the garden, Villa Verde acknowledges the chrysalis of history while proposing a more individual and contemporary expression of desert modernism. Rooted in Palm Springs but not confined by its visual orthodoxies, the home becomes a colorful, international, and highly personal oasis on the other side of tradition.