On a dusty desert highway in Twentynine Palms, bordering the iconic Joshua Tree National Park in California, Homestead Modern unveils a new home, Morning Dove, which is now available for private rentals. The brand has built a reputation for offering exclusive, design-centric accommodations in the Yucca Valley, atypical rental properties for unique getaways, of which past examples include Landing House. Designed by architect and builder Beau Campbell and his wife, interior designer Tracey Stehle-Cavaniola, Morning Dove sits on 20 acres of private land and is a model of 21st-century desert architecture.

Explore Morning Dove in Twentynine Palms

On the property, you will find two structures – a main house, and a guest house, both featuring rammed-earth construction, the ancient building method that blends sustainable architecture with a wildly distinctive look and feel.

'Rammed earth uses a combination of native materials, a binding agent and colourant to mix into the material by batch to achieve the layered look,' explains Tracey Cavaniola. 'In our case, we took the soil from our property, which we realised is mostly granite, screened it to get the consistency we wanted – a rougher, rustic look – and mixed it with specific-coloured mortars.'