Sell to Us · La Quinta
Sell vintage in La Quinta, a hideaway town since 1926.
Free visit · cash offers · no obligation
La Quinta has been a place people escape to for a century. The old hotel opened in 1926 as a hideaway for Hollywood, and Frank Capra famously holed up in a casita there to write. That resort habit shaped the town: houses here were furnished for pleasure, by people with taste and the means to indulge it, and much of what they bought is still sitting in the rooms.
The desert is kind to objects. Dry air means leather that has not cracked, textiles without mildew, and paper that stayed flat. When we open a La Quinta closet or garage, things are usually in better condition than their coastal equivalents. We visit the Coachella Valley regularly and bundle our stops, so one phone call is all it takes to get on the next trip out.
What we buy in La Quinta
Vintage clothing and western wear
Resort wardrobes, ranch-era denim and boots, and closets that stayed dry for decades
Furniture of the entertaining years
Rattan, wrought iron, mid-century pieces, and the good bar cart from the lanai
California and desert art
Landscape paintings, prints, and sculpture bought from valley galleries over the years
Jewelry, watches, and silver
Dress watches and the jewelry of formal desert households
From the Cove to PGA West
La Quinta splits neatly by era, and we read each part differently. The Cove holds the older, smaller houses, some going back to the 1930s and 40s, where original furnishings and long-held family things turn up. Around the resort and the older fairways you find households furnished in the 50s and 60s and rarely touched since. PGA West and the newer gated communities skew contemporary, but their owners inherited plenty, and the garages hold what the parents shipped out. We schedule La Quinta alongside our other Coachella Valley stops, so there is no minimum load to justify the drive. Call once, and we will fold you into the next trip.
A Recent Find
A 1940s Levi’s Type 1 jacket, sold to us by a former dealer who knew exactly what he had. We paid $12,000 in cash, the same day.
How it works
Call or text photos.
A real conversation about what you have, no pressure to sell.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
I only have a few pieces. Is that worth a visit?
Often yes, because we bundle La Quinta with other desert stops on the same trip. A single painting, a jewelry box, or one good closet can justify adding your address to the route. Send photos first and we will tell you straight either way.
Does the desert climate actually change what things are worth?
It changes condition, and condition drives price. Dry-stored leather, denim, paper, and textiles routinely arrive in better shape than coastal examples of the same pieces. We cannot promise numbers sight unseen, but desert-kept items frequently land at the strong end of their honest range.
How do you arrive at an offer?
We price from the real resale markets we sell into, including international collectors for categories like vintage denim, and we explain the reasoning in front of you. Cash on the spot if you accept, a friendly goodbye if you do not. The visit costs nothing.
There are desert landscape paintings that came from galleries here decades ago. How do we tell whether they matter?
Turn them around first. The back is where the answer usually lives: gallery labels, framer stickers naming a valley town, exhibition tags, an inventory number, or the artist’s name written in the same hand as the signature on the front. Check that it is a painting at all, since a printed reproduction shows a regular dot pattern under magnification while real paint sits up off the surface with visible brush texture. Do not peel off old labels and do not reframe anything, because for most pictures the back is the only provenance that exists.
Our house is in the Cove and the furniture has been there since the forties. Where do we start?
Start by opening the closets and the outbuildings rather than the good rooms. The older Cove houses are where original furnishings and long-held family things survive, and the pieces that surprise people are rarely the display furniture. Leave everything where it stands, including anything that looks like clearance, and let it be walked through in order.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
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