Rob Edley Welborn Art & Design

Rob Edley Welborn Art & Design I'm a multi-tasking designer working on buildings, interiors, furniture and art.

06/14/2026

Organic Style 1978

Ken Bangs Kellogg authored the Chart House Restaurant in Rancho Mirage in 1978. Later, in 1985, he began work on his famous High Desert House in Joshua Tree. He called his style "organic architecture", and it fit perfectly into its zeitgeist. The bell bottoms emerging from their dinner fit the times too.

It sheltered under a low vaulted roof that featured a skylight running all the way along its spine and sported hugely deep scalloped, overhanging eaves. The building won a lot of awards and was designated a historic landmark by the city of Rancho Mirage.

It burned down in 2012; the lot still sits vacant.



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Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through...
06/12/2026

Interior designers often talk about sightlines. They're the natural path your eye travels when you enter or move through a room.

Most people never think about this consciously, but they feel it. Art placed directly in a sightline changes a room immediately.

Placement is as intentional as the work itself.

Where would you put The Dove of Peace 1968?

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I think "Duly Recorded 🥂1971" could fit into a few different places. Where will you display it?Tempe, AZ, city hall was...
06/11/2026

I think "Duly Recorded 🥂1971" could fit into a few different places. Where will you display it?

Tempe, AZ, city hall was completed in 1972 by architects Rolf Osland + Michael and Kemper Goodwin. Its dramatic inverted pyramid shape serves a practical purpose in that it creates its own shade. The burning orange sky proves how badly we need it.

Here's hoping that the wedding couple is sheltered too!

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A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not ow...
06/10/2026

A lot of people hold off on collecting art because they rent and feel uncertain about committing to walls they do not own. But art does not belong to a wall. It belongs to you.

Renting is not a reason to live with bare walls. It is a reason to collect work that matters enough to keep moving (and growing) with you.

"1948 Starshine" and my other work are connected to the people who love them, not just the places they're displayed.

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06/08/2026

Catedral do Brasília 1970

The national cathedral of Brazil was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, engineered by Joaquin Cardozo, and completed in 1970. The cathedral is a hyperboloid structure constructed from 16 concrete columns, weighing 90 tons each.

We walk under the reflecting pool through a dark tunnel to emerge inside the brilliant stained glass roof of the church.

There can be as many as 4,000 worshipers!



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06/04/2026

"Chapel at Ronchamp 1955" // https://www.robedleywelborn.com/warehouse/art_print_products/221114-ronchamp

A view from my world into that of Corb.

Notre-Dame du Haut (Our Lady of the Heights) is a hilltop chapel in Ronchamp, in the far southeast of France just a few klicks from Bern, Switzerland.

Built in 1955, it is one of the most loved works of the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

In 2016 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of its importance to the history of Modernism.

At the time the new building was being constructed Corb was no longer interested in the International Style, if, indeed, he ever had been. He knew that his style had become grittier and more sculptural.

He also realized when he visited the site that he couldn't call for heavy construction machines because access was too difficult. It was hand-built with wheelbarrows, shovels, and hammers dragged up the hill from the road far below!

06/02/2026

From my collection, this is: "The Replicants Return"

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The Petersen Automotive Museum, on the Wilshire Miracle Mile in Santa Monica, witnesses the return of the Balde Runner replicants. All its occupants have fled, except for this one lonely gal, who stands in the middle of the street to welcome her mates.

Where do you spend the most time? Does the art in that room actually reflect how much time you spend there?The spaces we...
05/31/2026

Where do you spend the most time? Does the art in that room actually reflect how much time you spend there?

The spaces we use most deserve the most thought.

On my mind lately: "Sonoma Beach Trees"

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05/29/2026

Savings & Loan 1961

The second Palm Springs Coachella Valley Savings and Loan building was designed by E. Stewart Williams, as was the first, and built in 1961.

It's at 499 S. Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs and is well preserved and still being used as a bank, by Chase.

Its front porch is a row of upside-down arches, reminiscent of Oscar Niemeyer's Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, built in 1957.

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