Black Desert House by Oller & Pejic Architecture

Designed by renowned creative director Marc Atlan, alongside architecture office Oller & Pejic, "The Black Desert House" offers expansive vistas across Joshua Tree National Park in California. The low-profile dwelling forms a desirable and distinctive desert retreat, providing constantly changing panoramas of color, light and shade.

Centered around an external courtyard, the kitchen and dining areas become the focal point of the project’s interior, before a deeply tiered stairway leads to a sunken living room where soaring panes of glass frame views of the impressive terrain. Throughout the residence black walls, midnight quartz, high-gloss anthracite and darkened steel form the backdrop for the carefully selected use of color.