Inside House 849, a world market unfolds, with hallways lined with curio cabinets (the doors reclaimed from wardrobes circa 1929 at Hollywood`s Argyle Hotel, now Sunset Tower); walls of fine paintings, including a 15-canvas installation of sumie; grand rooms, one with a rustic chandelier hovering above a mahogany dining table punctuated with cowhide chairs for six; and many more niches and vignettes rich with French armchairs, fur throws, animal statuary, and beribboned throw pillows.


Just when you think you`ve figured out this place, you turn a corner and discover items even more exotic and aesthetically breathtaking. House 849`s globetrotting inventory offers more eye candy than most can comprehend in one visit — which accounts for the steady traffic well after season ended in town. Drawn in by this big box of a store and its beckoning Tiffany blue and chocolate brown logo, passersby often marvel at how this gigantic retail showplace suddenly appeared in Palm Springs` Uptown Heritage District, like Dorothy`s clapboard plunked down in Oz.