Online Bidding Event Features More Than 100 Unique Architectural Experiences, Items, Exclusive VIP Modernism Week Event Tickets, and Much More
PALM SPRINGS, CA (November 24, 2025) – Modernism Week announced that it will again offer an exciting online auction of unique and compelling experiences and intriguing and distinctive items just in time for the holiday season. The online bidding event, called the ‘Best of Modernism – Holiday Edition” Auction, will run 8 days from December 6-14, 2025, and will feature more than 100 unique architectural experiences, exclusive VIP Modernism Week event tickets and experiences packages, and uncommon items not typically available to the public. Hopeful bidders may set up an account on the auction page and submit bids during the event. The winners will be announced after bidding concludes. The ‘Best of Modernism – Holiday Edition’ Auction will take place at the modernismweek.com web site starting Saturday December 6, 2025, at 12 PM PST. Proceeds from auction sales support Modernism Week, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
“Modernists have begun to appreciate that Modernism Week’s annual online auction offers one-of-a-kind exclusive architectural experiences and unique products they would not be able to find anywhere else,” said Mark Davis, Modernism Week’s Lecture, Travel and Auction Producer, who is organizing the auction. “This is the 5th year of the auction, and it will be the biggest and most exciting auction yet. We have secured a record number of very exciting items and experiences, including some truly exceptional architectural surprises. There is something for everyone in every price range, including those hard-to-please Modernists on your holiday shopping list, who can receive these items in time for holiday giving.”
Highlighted auction items include:
· Extremely rare opportunity for a generous top bidder and up to three (3) guests to experience a private twilight tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece designed in 1935. This experience includes a cocktail reception in the living room and a catered dinner on the terrace, with an overnight in one of the nearby historic accommodations on site.
· An Edward Fields 9 x 9 carpet in Raymond Loewy’s classic 1952 ‘Picnic Blanket’ design, custom-made in 1997 for the 1947 Kaufmann House by Richard Neutra in Palm Springs.
· A two-night weekend stay for two (2) couples in a privately owned 1958 Frank Lloyd Wright House which includes all the original furnishings. The stay includes a catered dinner for four.
· Modernism Week Opening Weekend VIP four-night stay in a deluxe room at the Kimpton Rowan Hotel and 2 tickets for each of the following events: Modernism Week Opening Night Party, Modernism Show Preview Opening Reception, the sold-out and highly desirable Garden Tour at the 1946 Kaufmann Residence by Richard Neutra, the sold out Sunday Night at the Sinatra Estate party, Premier Double Decker Architectural Bus Tour, Valentine’s Day Evening Performance of ‘Sweet Caroline’ at the newly restored and reopened Plaza Theater, including dinner, and a $100 Uber gift credit to use to get around town.
· A stunning selection of large-scale enameled metal sculpture works and paintings from a famed local artist’s estate.
· Holiday ornaments galore, including no-longer-available Alessi designs from Italy, retro Higgins Glass, unique artist designed pieces, designs from Trina Turk and Paul Smith, and classic mouth-blown, hand-painted glass ornaments from Inge-Glas Manufaktur, Germany.
· A 2-night stay for two (2) guests in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels, Casa Polanco.
· Multiple original, signed, and certified Julius Shulman photographs including classic silver gelatin vintage prints of the 1937 Grace Miller House and the 1953 Kramer House by Richard Neutra.
· Private tour and catered dinner for up to four (4) guests at 22 Parkside, the famed Wimbledon Glass House near London, designed in 1967 by British Architect Richard Rogers.
· 4 night/5 day stay in a private Palm Springs modernist home designed by Donald Wexler.
· A Grand ten foot Modern and a Jubilee tabletop Christmas tree from Modern Christmas Tree.
· Luxury SUV Tour for four (4) guests, with private driver, of some of the midcentury modern architectural masterpieces featured in photographer Daniel Chavkin’s acclaimed book, Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern, including a signed copy of his now out-of-print photography coffee table book, and a $200 gift card for lunch at one of Palm Springs most desirable restaurants, Jake’s on North Palm Canyon Drive.
· A 7-night stay for up to two (2) couples in the fully restored 1956 home of Sarasota School of Architecture architect, Gene Leedy in Winter Haven, Florida.
· Fine art graphic works from famed midcentury Mexican architect Pedro Ramíris Vásquez, Cuba, Shag, Arne L. Hansen, Rudolph de Harak and Yaacov Agam.
· 1970s brutalist bronze Pentti Sarpaneva signed jewelry from Finland.
· Vintage Midcentury Bakelite Mahjong Set with original case.
· An impressive midcentury modern collection of vintage Scandinavian and Italian glass.
· Signed copies and bundles of out-of-print architecture and design books on subjects including Richard Neutra, Julius Shulman, Herbert Bayer, Albert Frey, Edgar Kaufmann, jr., Keith Haring, David Bowie, Annie Liebowitz, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frida Kahlo, Mies van der Rohe, Diego Rivera, Mad Men, Bauhaus, Marilyn Monroe, Case Study Houses, and many, many others.
· Enjoy a tour of the modernist highlights of the exclusive London borough of Hampstead in a vintage chauffeured 1934 Bently for two (2) guests, then be guests of the Trustees of the 1934 Isokon Flats for a private tour of the Isokon Gallery and Penthouse, followed by champagne and a classic English cream tea.
The auction will conclude Sunday December 14 at 12 Noon PST. Winning bidders will be notified soon after the auction closes. For more information visit modernismweek.com.
Modernism Week top sponsors include Ferguson Home, Brizo, Dunn-Edwards Paints, Monogram, Cotino, DWR, Flor, and Natural Retreats. The City of Palm Springs is the Civic Presenting Sponsor. To receive Modernism Week updates, visit modernismweek.com and follow them on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X.
