The Villa Hermosa is a mid-century modern private complex in the Old Las Palmas neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, United States.
Located at 155 W Hermosa Place, near North Palm Canyon Drive and West El Alameda, it was originally commissioned as a residential hotel for winter visitors by C.K.
The property was featured in photos by Julius Shulman in 1947,[1][2] and subsequently recognized locally as historically significant.
[3][4] Designed by architect Albert Frey, as "an ode to international style modernism"[5] with railings outfitted with yellow canvas,[6] Villa Hermosa is an "assembly of stacked and terraced apartments that forms a partial enclosure around a garden and a pool that is oriented to a mountain view...with access to all apartments through the garden".
[7] In 2001, The New York Times Magazine ranked the building among the top five "most intact and notable"[8] of the 200 projects Frey designed in Palm Springs between 1934 and 1988.