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SUNNYLANDS A PALM SPRINGS REFUGE FOR THE RICH AND FAMOUS | STORY BY CARL H. LARSEN | you’re down, you find out who your “When real friends are,” a disgraced Richard Nixon wrote in the guest book at Sunnylands, the spectacular enclave Walter and Leonore (Lee) Annenberg built out of the desert in Rancho Mirage. His message of gratitude was written on Sept. 8, 1974, a month after he had resigned the presidency -- and on the day he was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. 40 Wine Dine & Travel Winter 2015
The 25,000 square foot Mid-Century Modern residence was designed by the late Los Angeles architect A. Quincy Jones. Lasting friendships and generous hospitality is what the Annenbergs were all about, as well as an unparalleled legacy of philanthropy. The wealthy couple used their Mayan-influenced home as the centerpiece of an opulent lifestyle more attuned to a British earl and countess in the tradition of “Downton Abbey” than that of a successful American publisher and his charming and equally astute wife, who served as chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department. Once staffed by 60 servants, including an Irish butler, their private domain, including a golf course, has recently been opened for all to see. It now joins the San Simeon estate of William Randolph Hearst as being two of California’s bestknown homes that are open to the public. Like Hearst, Annenberg was a newspaper publisher, and was the creator of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines. As a Philadelphia TV station owner, he promoted a young man named Dick Clark, who gave the world “American Bandstand.” But don’t take the Hearst-Annenberg analogy too far. There are no ketchup bottles to be found on the dining room tables at Sunnylands as there are at San Simeon. As a hostess, Leonore Annenberg was unmatched. Instead of one formal banquet table, she typically seated her dinner guests around several small, more intimate tables. With a golf course just out the door, and a home designed for entertaining, Sunnylands was a place where the high and mighty could kick back far away from Wine Dine & Travel Winter 2015 41
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