The Caldwell Splash

If you are reading only one part

Florist / plants

The palette below, and one rule: this event has no florals in the stationery at all. The suite's only ornament is a sunburst crest. If you are bringing green, bring desert planting — agave, citrus, oleander — not cut arrangements.

Venue stylist

The palette, and the note under Day-of notes about the crest: it is never repeated and never tiled. One per surface, large, or not at all. Umbrellas, towels and cushions should pick up terracotta and aqua — the brass yellow is a highlight, not a third colour.

Photographer

The stationery list below is the shot list. Worth a detail frame: the invitation flat in full sun (it is built to be kept on a fridge), the favour tags — there is a dachshund hidden in them — and the welcome sign before the first guest arrives. Golden hour behind the San Jacintos is the light the whole design was drawn for.

Planner / caterer

Everything, plus the timing note: food runs as stations from 1:30 PM and the frozen dessert cart circles at 4 PM sharp. The menu card is written as an all-afternoon graze, not plated courses — please do not re-sequence it into services.

The event

Date

Saturday, 29 August 2026

Arrival

One o'clock, at Evorrah

Venue

Villa Mirada
1147 Camino Mirasol, Palm Springs

Venue character

A 1962 mid-century modern house by a Krisel disciple — white breeze-block walls, a turquoise kidney pool, a butterfly roof, and the San Jacinto mountains going pink behind it at golden hour.

Guests

48

Replies by

8 August 2026

Materials language

English

The visual identity at a glance

Sand cream is the ground of everything. Terracotta is the loud one and carries the crest; aqua is the pool and is used in flat areas, never as type; brass yellow appears once per piece at most — it is the dessert cart, not a colour of the event.

Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. The values above are screen values: they are how the colour is specified, not how it will look under Palm Springs sun at two in the afternoon. Ask for a printed piece before committing an order of linen, umbrellas or paint — terracotta in particular reads considerably hotter outdoors than it does on a monitor.

Stationery arriving

Counts are 48 guests plus a proofing margin. “One per household” is the envelope count, not the guest count — a couple at one address is one invitation.

Day-of notes

The crest

The sunburst is the whole ornament — a hotel crest for a place that does not exist. It sits centred and owns about three quarters of the card. It is never repeated and never tiled. If you are producing anything additional — a sign, a bar card, a napkin — use it once, large, or leave it off entirely.

The conceit

The whole suite reads as a guest folio for a 1962 desert hotel called Hotel Mirada, invented from Daphne's own villa. Anything you add should sound like hotel signage rather than party decoration — Pool Deck, Cart Service 4PM — never a slogan.

Food

Stations around the pool deck from 1:30 PM. The frozen dessert cart circles at 4 PM sharp; the menu card is deliberately written as an all-afternoon graze, so please keep the stations open rather than closing one to open the next.

Favour tags

There is a small dachshund silhouette worked quietly into them — Martini, Evorrah dog. It is meant to be found, not pointed at. Do not enlarge it or move it onto other pieces.

Welcome signage

Read from across the drive, so it wants a clear sightline from where cars stop. Corner-rounded like the rest of the suite; if it is mounted, mount it square and low rather than on a tall easel — Evorrah is single-storey and a high sign fights the roofline.

Material

Flat digital offset on rigid heavyweight board, corners rounded. Nothing in this suite is laminated, foiled or textured — the flatness is the 1962 reference and it is deliberate.

Questions about anything on this sheet

Ask the studio directly rather than working around a detail — hello@evorrah.com. Artwork, vector files and colour references for anything listed here can be sent to a supplier on request.

The Caldwell Splash · Saturday, 29 August 2026 · Villa Mirada, Palm Springs · prepared by Evorrah