The Desert Hot Springs Motel in Southern California, which was designed by noted architect John Lautner in 1947, has reopened as the Hotel Lautner after a three-year renovation.
The Hotel Lautner opened Thursday as a boutique resort with four architecturally-interlocking suites.
The property, which was acquired in 2008 by Tracy Beckmann and Ryan Trowbridge and renovated by the two Los Angeles-based designers, is offering introductory rates starting at $200 per night.
Lautner, who died in 1994 and whose works include the futuristic, spaceship-like Chemosphere house in Los Angeles, originally designed the hotel as a prototype for a proposed master-planned community.
Desert Hot Springs is about 10 miles north of Palm Springs and 110 miles east of Los Angeles.