LABC Presents: Palm Springs Tiki with Sven Kirsten and Peter Moruzzi

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: Ever since meeting as presenters at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design in 1992, Sven Kirsten and Peter Moruzzi have continued researching and documenting 20th-century urban design and popular culture. Each went on their own path publishing several books about their chosen subjects, but also collaborating on two book projects that brought them as far as New York and Havana. It's only fitting then that the two authors reunite in the new book “PALM SPRINGS TIKI: POLYNESIA IN THE DESERT,” which brings together Sven’s pet subject of Tiki style with Peter’s expertise in Palm Springs architecture and history. Through a myriad of captivating objects, historic photographs, vintage postcards, colorful architectural renderings, and other ephemera, Sven will illustrate the many imaginative concepts that proprietors developed in creating a tropical paradise in the California desert. Afterward, both authors will sign their most recent collaboration.

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