New tours offered for this year’s Modernism Week Fall Preview
Modernism Week Fall Preview weekend is right around the corner and tickets are selling quick. One of the new events this year is the Cul-De-Sac Experience complete with a street full of vintage cars.
Organizers hope the vintage cars and midcentury architecture take the viewer back to the ’60s.
“Everywhere you look, the houses are all intact from that period and I realized with my friend that when you put classic cars in the driveways you suddenly totally go back in time and create almost a movie set,” organizer Tom Dolle said.
That movie set is what you can expect to see on the Cul-De-Sac tour of five homes during the Modernism Week Fall Preview.
“We’re going to have classic cars in all the driveways, a trailer set up as a sales office, and a lot of vintage graphics that I’ve researched and found that tell you about those features that were sold to people when these houses were first new,” Dolle said.
Dolle gave me a tour of his home, one of the five on the tour.
“What’s interesting is you go from this grand living space, into this separate living space, which has lower ceilings; creates a really nice sense of space. And it opens into the master bedroom which has this wonderful corner window looking out to the east mountains,” Dolle said.
Dolle’s friend Jeff Stork brings the vintage cars into the mix.
“It’s traditional when you’re putting a house on tour to put a car in the driveway. And last year we tried putting a car in the driveway on either side, and we discovered you start to paint a larger picture and tell the story of the neighborhood,” Stork said.
He said they’re focusing on cars from the ’60s to match the era of the homes.
“We’re featuring a lot of cars from the era. We’re going to be showing an Avanti, which was designed in Palm Springs. It was a high end sports car made by Studebaker,” Stork said.
