If you love Frank Sinatra you have to spend a night in his Palm Springs hideaway. Twin Palms, the four-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot (480 square meters) mini-mansion, sitting just a mile from busy downtown Palm Springs, is where Sinatra lived from 1947 until about 1954. However today its available for vacation rental.

Back when Palm Springs was a drowsy desert village, Frank Sinatra commissioned the house to be built as the primary residence for himself and first wife, Nancy Barbato. And he wanted it built fast. Workers using floodlights laboured around the clock so the house could be ready in time for Sinatra to celebrate a New Year’s party in the house.

Twin Palms itself is a spectacular example of mid-century contemporary architecture in the heart of Palm Springs’ Movie Colony community. Designed in 1947 by Stewart Williams, the four-bedroom, seven-bath home boasts Sinatra’s original state-of-the-art sound system. (The sound system is still in the house, but it is not connected for use.) Every window looks onto the pool, the sliding glass wall leads out to the pool, the house bends around the pool, and its easy to understand that the pool was the architect’s focus, the turquoise nexus around which Twin Palms was meant to revolve. Shaped like a piano and heated in the winter to 90 degrees, the pool is where Sinatra liked to hang, drink, talk, and entertain his legendary friends.

However not long after moving in, Sinatra had a change of heart. He met Ava Gardner, the love of his life, and promptly left his wife Nancy, who begrudgingly granted him a divorce. Twin Palms then became the setting for one of the 20th century’s great romances, the hideaway in which Sinatra and Gardner conducted their operatic affair. If the walls could talk… The home was also host to some of the valley’s most glamorous parties with Hollywood’s brightest stars, including Bob Hope, Joan Crawford, Phil Silvers, Mary Livingston, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and even the reclusive Greta Garbo. As well the house was witness to some of Sinatra’s most memorable bouts. One of the most outrageous was when Frank threw then-wife Ava Gardner’s possessions onto the driveway after she appeared at the house in an attempt to catch him with Lana Turner. You can still see the chip in the sink where Frank threw a bottle in a rage.

So if you’re Sinatra-besotted, or just curious to experience first hand where and how Ol’ Blue Eyes lived, rent Twin Palms for the night and sleep in Frank Sinatra’s bed. A night at Twin Palms costs around $2600.

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