Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2026
Time: Tues., 6:15pm
Venue: The Rialto Theatre, Raleigh
Price: $20.90
Category: Film
Arthur Elrod was Palm Springs’ most glamorous interior designer, and his playground was architect John Lautner’s concrete-and-glass masterpiece — immortalized in Diamonds Are Forever. This film reveals how Elrod fused desert modernism with Hollywood theatricality, creating spaces so bold even Bond villains coveted them. Essential viewing.
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