Echoes Magazine

Reflections On Water – Cool Pools in the Desert

Excerpt by John Ellis

Wading Room
Soak your feet in the shallow end while you absorb the design of this elegant post-and-beam house, built by “desert-modern” architect Donald Wexler in 1954 for his own young family. Current residents Steve and Misako Samioff make sure there’s a lounge available poolside for their pooches Baby and Moo.