Wednesday, JANUARY 8, 2025 at 8:00pm EsT
Sven Kirsten & Peter Moruzzi: Palm Springs Tiki
Ever since meeting as presenters at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design in 1992, Sven Kirsten and Peter Moruzzi have worked on 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 is only fitting then that the two authors re-unite in the new book Palm Springs Tiki, which brings together Sven’s pet subject of Tiki style with Pete’s expertise in Palm Springs architectural vernacular.
In a presentation rich in images from both of their archives, Sven will illustrate how primitivism and modernism mingled under the desert sun.