Mid2Mod, a blogging magazine catering to retrophiles and devotees of everything Mid-Century Modern, recently featured the Twin Palms Estate in their article entitled “Star style: Frank Sinatra’s Twin Palms” Here’s a sample from the article: “In May of 1947, Frank Sinatra walked into the office of E. Stewart Williams and told him he wanted a Georgian-style estate built in Palm Springs, California, by Christmas, when he and his first wife Nancy Barbato planned to host a party. Horrified at the prospect of having to build a Georgian-style mansion in the middle of the desert, Williams nevertheless drew the plans, but he drew a second set of plans for a modern home. Fortunately, Sinatra loved the modern design, and construction began around the clock in an effort to meet Sinatra’s deadline. The four-bedroom, five-bathroom, 4,500-square-foot fully air-conditioned estate was completed in time for the Sinatras to host a New Year’s party. Sinatra immediately dubbed the estate Twin Palms…” Read the Article Online | View Print PDF  

The Twin Palms Frank Sinatra Estate was recently featured on page 22 of Canada’s LOOK magazine, in their Spring 2012 Online Edition.

Palm Springs Life recently featured the Twin Palms Frank Sinatra Estate in a September 2012 article entitled, “The VIP Treatment”. The article boasts you can stay and play like a star in a celebrity estate, mountain-view mansion, or an architectural gem of a vacation house, all in Palm Springs! Read the article online | View / Print PDF

Vanity Fair, in their Summer 2012 Best of Vanity Fair Issue, reprinted an article from June 1999 written by Bob Colacello (and photos by Jonathan Becker). The article features a number of the most well known spots in town including the Twin Palms Frank Sinatra Estate. Here’s the article’s forward. Palm Springs Weekends June 1999 “In the late 90’s, the faded desert jewel of Palm Springs sparkled once again as trendsetters from John Travolta to Tom Ford re-discovered its exuberant modernist aesthetic. Summoning the hedonistic past of a resort that drew a cavalcade of celebrities, including Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, and Frank Sinatra, and Presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan, writer Bob Colacello and and photographer Jonathan Becker toured its social and architectural delights: houses built by masters such as Albert Frey, John Lautner, A. Quincy Jones, and Richard Neutra and inhabited by luminaries such as Bob and Dolores Hope, Walter and Lee Annenberg, and Kirk and Anne Douglas.” View / Print the Entire Article Here

The Travel Channel recently featured the Twin Palms Frank Sinatra Estate in an episode entitled Jaw Dropping Rentals. Here’s a clip from the show: [jwplayer config=”myplayer” file=”https://sinatrahouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TravelChannelSinatraHouseFinal.flv” image=”https://sinatrahouse.com/blog-content/images/travel-channel-video-poster.jpg” html5_file=”http://www.mywebsite.com/myvideo.mp4″ download_file=”https://sinatrahouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TravelChannelSinatraHouse2012.mp4″ width=”640″ height=”480″]