Dressed in torn cargo trousers and beaten-up Vans, architectural designer and DIY influencer Ben Uyeda is stretched out by the pool in a rare moment of repose on a recent Tuesday evening at Reset, his new hotel in the city of 29 Palms in California.
“This is the best time to watch the mountains,” he says, looking south towards Joshua Tree National Park. “Right now they look really jagged, but they’ll turn soft and orange as the sun sets.”
Sitting next to him are his collaborators Emi Kitawaki and Jen Whitaker of the design firm Gry Space, who created the look and tone of Reset’s spare, earthy interiors. Sharing a cold cucumber salad from the hotel restaurant, they gaze across the spacious pool area with its wide platform loungers and stucco walls that perfectly match the colour of the dusty desert landscape beyond.
“The sky is the show,” Kitawaki says, looking up.
Reset, which opened to the public this summer, is a new kind of hotel for the high desert: modern, minimal and modular.
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