The Curated Home
Good Taste Has Always Broken the Rules
For a quarter century, Maison Felice has gathered the world's finest antiques, furniture and fine art in one extraordinary gallery on El Paseo in Palm Desert. Twenty thousand square feet across two floors hold four centuries of design, from 17th-century European masterworks to the icons of Modernism. Each piece has been chosen for its quality, provenance and character, and for the story it brings into a room.
We believe the most memorable homes are collected, not decorated. A gilded Louis XV mirror above a Modernist console. An ancient bronze beside a contemporary canvas. Different centuries, perfectly at home together. This is the curated home: personal, layered, and entirely your own, filled with pieces no one else will ever have.
THE GALLERY
THE PHYLLIS WASHINGTON COLLECTION
Some Treasures Must Be Seen in Person
Beneath the violet awning on El Paseo, a pair of wrought-iron doors open onto a gallery unlike any other. Inside, two floors unfold room by room: gilded salons and sculpture, Venetian mirrors and Deco lighting, grand tables set beside Modernist chairs. Every corner holds a discovery, and every discovery has a story.
Curated with Intention, Available by Inquiry
Our collection is thoughtfully curated for discerning clients, collectors, and the trade. Each piece is carefully selected and offered by inquiry, with pricing and availability provided upon request
Open Monday through Saturday, or privately by appointment.
SAN FRANCISCO FALL SHOW 2026
The Gilded Hour
This past October, Maison Felice travelled to the San Francisco Fall Show, the West Coast's premier gathering of art, antiques and design. This year's theme was Métallique Chic, a celebration of every precious surface the decorative arts have ever known: gilded, silvered, burnished and bronzed.
This year’s theme was metallics, and we brought our best — gilding and parcel-gilt, ormolu, bronze, Japanese Imperial silver, gold leaf laid down by hand. Together they trace the journey of metal through time and technique, from the workshops of the eighteenth century to the foundries of the twentieth.
But technique isn’t really the point. The point is what metal does to a room. It catches light and gives it back. A gilt frame, a bronze mount, a parcel-gilt console — each one changes the air around it.
These are the pieces that debuted in San Francisco. They meet the moment, and they will outlast it.
The Collection
Métallique Chic
Four centuries of gold, silver and bronze.
Gathered for the San Francisco Fall Show.
THE ELSIE DE WOLFE EXHIBIT
Before Elsie de Wolfe, American rooms were dark, heavy and crowded. She swept it all away with pale walls, mirrors, trellis, chintz and light, and in 1913 her book The House in Good Taste turned decorating into a profession. Actress, hostess, tastemaker and later Lady Mendl of the Villa Trianon, she designed her own life as boldly as any room.
Our exhibit invites you into her world: her personal scrapbooks and diaries, black-and-white photographs of the rooms she created and the society she moved in, and a few remarkable pieces from her life. Come see where modern interior design began.
THE PHYLLIS WASHINGTON COLLECTION
Some Pieces Belong Together
Maison Felice is the gallery of Phyllis Washington — a lifelong antiquarian, interior designer and patron of the arts. What fills these rooms is not inventory but a collection, assembled piece by piece over decades from around the world. She buys by eye: period and provenance matter, but neither decides anything alone. What decides it is presence.
Our collections gather those pieces by era, maker and story — from souvenirs of the road to Rome to the rooms of the Temple of Wings. They change with the seasons, so look again soon.
THE GETTY COLLECTION
From the Temple of Wings
ART DECO
When luxury went modern
MODERNISM
Form, material, and line
GRAND TOUR
Souvenirs of the road to Rome
CONTEMPORARY ART
One canvas changes a room
PORCELAIN & CERAMICS
The alchemy of earth and fire