73271 Buckboard Trl · Apartment for Rent

Discover the Paulette Johnson residence, one of the last homes designed by modernist architect Walter S White, designer, builder, and developer of a number of desert homes across the Coachella Valley from the late 1940s until about 1960. 73271 Buckboard Trail demonstrates White's use of typically strong lines and open, but defined spaces. Hidden steel columns support expanses of glass in the main living area and primary bedroom. The structure incorporates brick, concrete and walls of glass in its design to create indoor-outdoor living spaces, and interior clerestory windows provide spaciousness and light throughout. A raised concrete platform encircles the home. A long interior block wall runs from the bedrooms past the entrance, turns into the living room, and continues outdoors and past the patio where it meets another wall of pierced concrete block. There is a shallow sunning pool next to the primary bedroom, which has been converted to a fountain. The side yard in...