To be built on a vacant double lot in Palm Spring purchased from the estate of Bob Hope, the clients wanted two houses - one to keep and one to sell, but that would act as a pair of sisters [similar in sensibility but unique in personality]. Founded in the modernism of the place, the houses need to act as a frame mediating between the foreground of the swimming pool and the background of the majestic mountains. The house became a material blind, cropping and bounding spaces, flowing between inside and out and minimally creating a desert experience through the material architecture.