It’s all Harry Styles and substance in California’s sunny Palm Springs

A bucket-list trip to California’s golden Coachella Valley exceeded expectations during Modernism Week

The 'Forever Marilyn' statue in Palm Springs. Picture courtesy of visitgreaterpalmsprings.com

Lucy White

It’s 29 degrees in the shade and a rivulet of sweat trickles from beneath my silk headscarf as I step out into the Canyon View cul-de-sac, its Daz-white modernist bungalows punctuated by gangly palm trees soaring into a Matisse-blue sky, a heft of mountains in widescreen.

I stop briefly for a photo outside a gleaming Ford Thunderbird convertible before being ushered into the house, my heart pounding in anticipation.