THE PLACE TO BE
TOM BLACHFORD/POWERHOUSE
FREE OF THE White House, on January 20 Barack and Michelle Obama flew to Palm Springs, California, the desert resort where they are rumored to be buying a home. Good enough for other former presidents (Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, lived there after leaving Washington), Palm Springs has long been home to the talented, the famous—and some of the lightest and most lithe mid-20th-century architecture.