The Monkey Tree Hotel
The hotel is filled with a mix of vintage pieces from different eras, many sourced from the Perez Design District in Cathedral City and Etsy. The Antiques Gallery of Palm Springs in Sunny Dunes was a favorite source for "smalls," the quirky midcentury accessories like resin grapes or gravel art that can be found throughout the hotel. "Buying this type of furniture, you can't agonize over it," Kathy says. "If you think about it too long and wait, it may be gone."
The Jungle bathroom at the Monkey Tree hotel in Palm Springs. Accessories and art like the roadrunner needlepoint wall hanging were largely "made by regular people and found in vintage stores," Kathy says.
The new hotel's Jungle bedroom, stocked with finds from places like The Estate Sale Company, where it's not unusual to find treasures from the Parker Palm Springs, located just across the street. Other scores came from the now-shuttered Lot 58 auction house.
The original Jungle bedroom that inspired it. The refurbished interiors are light and cheery, an interpretation of the 1960s seen through a playfully kitschy lens. "I like midcentury accessories that our guests remember from their grandmother's house," Kathy says of the hook-rug wall hangings and velvet paintings that fill the space. "I gravitate to the old-school and the handmade."
The new pool area.