Private Catered Sunset Reception for 6 Guests at Frey House II Including Highly Collectable, 1st Edition Hardback Book, "Albert Frey: Houses 1 + 2 " (1998) by Jennifer Golub. No Longer in Print, Sells for Upwards of $700 or More!

Now this is an experience very few will ever have the opportunity to do....and it includes a highly collectable and valuable, 1998 1st Edition Hardback (no longer available) book by Jennifer Golub, Albert Frey: Houses 1+2.  Published just months prior to Albert Frey's passing. 

Be the high bidder and invite (and impress!!) 5 guests to join you for a champagne toast at one of the most iconic modernist residences in the world, Frey House II.  

Maybe it's for your birthday, or birthday of someone very special, maybe an unforgettable anniversary surprise, or perhaps as the stage for the most instagrammable marriage proposal imaginable!  So think about which day you want to have an experience of a lifetime! 

Albert Frey (1903–1998), one of the most important modern architects of our time, lived and worked in Palm Springs since 1934. Over a long and prolific career, he produced more than 200 building designs, including such notable local landmarks as the Palm Springs City Hall and the Aerial Tramway Valley Station with John Porter Clark. 

Frey House ll, his long-time residence is perched high up on the hillside at the west end of Tahquitz Canyon Way, with views clear across the Valley.  

This was Frey's second home in Palm Springs, completed in 1964 and is now part of the permanent collection of Palm Springs Art Museum. Rarely open to the public, and then only during Modernism Week, this iconic structure will be open only to the winning bidder and up to 5 guests.  You and your guests will be able to tour the house at leisure, and enjoy a catered champagne and charcuterie reception as you watch the sun set and the lights begin to twinkle on across the Coachella Valley. 

The book is an exquisitely designed 1st Edition hardback monograph, Albert Frey: Houses 1 and 2,  focuses on two houses he built for himself in Palm Springs, California: one in 1941 (with an addition in 1953, no longer existent) and the other in 1964.

Although both houses have a modern aesthetic, including glass walls and concrete construction, they are fully incorporated into their surroundings, in keeping with Frey's principles of paralleling nature in his work. This book, which was developed in collaboration with Frey himself, includes color and duotone photographs commissioned especially for this book. The 10" x 8" book is cloth-bound and comes in a plastic slipcase.  

Things to Know:  

• This experience is for the winning bidder and up to five (5) guests, for total of six (6) lucky participants.  
• The experience is valid through to the end of 2024.  Advance booking is required 30 days or more prior.  Please consider submitting 2 different date requests.  
• Frey House II is not ADA accessible and no commercial photography is allowed.  There is a set of steep steps from where parking is to the level of the house.  
• Date of sunset reception to be confirmed at a mutually agreeable time between the winning bidder and Palm Springs Art Museum.  
• Private evening reception cannot be booked during Modernism Week due to previously confirmed events.
• Instructions to request reservation will be provided following the conclusion of the auction on December 10, 2023.  
• The reception cannot be booked on days the museum is closed or on summer hiatus. 
• Total time allowed from arrival to departure is 2 hours.  
• Museum security will be on site.  

• Company Name : Frey House II - Palm Springs Art Museum
  

• Company Name : Frey Book + Reception - Modernism Week