CONTENTS

SPACES WINTER/SPRING 2019

Features

56 FRAME OF MIND

Japanese-inspired modernism is built into a home in Ross. By Zahid Sardar

Photography by Matthew Millman

68 PARALLEL UNIVERSE

A modern St. Helena hillside house fits right in. By Zahid Sardar

Photography by Cesar Rubio

78 DÉJÀ VU

A second life for a wine country house destroyed by fire. By Zahid Sardar

Photography by Matthew Millman

86 THE NEXT WAVE

A Stinson Beach home perfect for indoor/outdoor parties. By Reed Wright

Photography by Paul Dyer

94 OUT OF THE BOX

A creative way to stay put in the midst of a renovation. By Sarah Moline

Photography by David Wilson

100 PARADISE CALLING Michael Lucas creates a garden inspired by a California mission. By Zahid Sardar

Photography by Marion Brenner

ON THE COVER

A glass-walled staircase adds drama to this home designed by Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai.

CONTENTS WINTER/SPRING 2019

Departments

18 EDITOR’S WELCOME

20 CONTRIBUTORS

22 LETTERS

25 DESIGN SPOT Design in unlikely places. By Zahid Sardar

31 GALLERY A roundup of irresistible objects for the home. By Lisa Boquiren

42 ON THE RISE Repurposed structures float into modernity. By Zahid Sardar

49 FOCUS SFMOMA focuses on The Sea Ranch. By Zahid Sardar

53 VOICES Getting creative with Celia Tejada. By Laura Hilgers

105 MAKEOVER Diego Pacheco goes modern. By Reed Wright

108 PORTFOLIO Conceptual photographer Catherine Wagner. By Reed Wright

117 IN BLOOM Regional experts go for evergreens. By Reed Wright

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:

MAKEOVER Designer Diego Pacheco worked with the owners to modernize this Mill Valley home. diegopacheco.com

UP FLOOR LAMP by Marcel Wanders for Roche Bobois is available for $3,690 at Roche Bobois. roche-bobois.com

CARACTERE Tableware from Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance. revol1768.com

COLUMN TABLE TALL by Tom Corbin for Corbin Bronze is available to the trade at Sloan Miyasato. sloanm.com

PORTFOLIO Conceptual photographer Catherine Wagner. catherinewagner.org

DOMUS table is designed by Cardenio Petrucci and produced by Studio Roeper. $26,000–$45,000. dsegnare.com

118 RESOURCES A guide to finding what’s shown in the issue.

122 REAR WINDOW

The Castro Theatre and social change. By David Weinstein

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Zahid Sardar

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Eva Hagberg Fisher, Laura Hilgers, Sarah Moline, David Weinstein, Reed Wright

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IT IS A SOBERING TIME. As the fog settles in and the air seems less choked by smoke and haze from the recent spate of California fires, some that have not fully abated at press time, we pause and pay homage to the losses of lives and homes. Perhaps there is no escape from such disasters that have grown too large and too enveloping. But for those rebuilding, there are, one hopes, ways to better live with the changing patterns of weather and wind, fire and water.

In this issue, we celebrate the ways Northern Californians have approached the environment since the back-to-the-land experiments in Sonoma at The Sea Ranch, where pioneering architects listened closely to nature. For instance, there, some homes emulated the angle of windswept grasses for shed roofs to help deflect the force of Pacific winds. In another corner of Sonoma, the high walls of a garden designed by Michael Lucas provide comfortable, elegant shelter outdoors.

There are other strategies. Architect Jim Zack of the firm Zack/de Vito Architecture + Construction has designed a St. Helena, Napa Valley home on a rocky fire-prone hilltop with a swimming pool that doubles as a fire reservoir.

Next to a lagoon at Stinson Beach, where rising tides could affect homes in the future, architect Cass Calder Smith has built a C-shaped home that wraps around an enclosed courtyard and sits high above the water on a stepped deck and a higher-than-normal foundation. Architect David Wilson found a novel way to weather the vagaries of remodeling while living at home in Berkeley: he built a large box around the parts of the house he wasn’t going to change and the family moved in. A cut-out window allowed them to witness the “storm” of change. In an ecotone where riparian redwoods meet dry-weather oaks on a hilltop site above Ross, Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects have designed a stunning Japanese-style compound that replicates the colors of the surroundings and opens to bay views, all fortified against fires by stone courtyards, infinity pools and spare landscaping by Surfacedesign.

Finally, a house by Aidlin Darling design is a reminder that there is no guarantee that the forces of nature won’t prevail. The house the firm designed in Glen Ellen — with every precaution in mind — was burned to the ground a year and a half ago in that season’s fires. Still, as the pictures attest, it provided a kind of perfection for the owners and it will be rebuilt just as it was, once again.

In this issue we also highlight the work of conceptual photographer Catherine Wagner, who has sometimes documented the changing cityscape in San Francisco.

In On the Rise you can read about interior designer Ken Fulk, who has revived an abandoned church building, and artist Ann Hamilton’s site-specific installation at Converge 45, an arts event in Portland, Oregon. In Bloom presents the objects gathered by Piraneseum and evergreens by horticulturist Margaret Majua. Designer Celia Tejada, who until recently led some of the innovations at Restoration Hardware, lends us her voice, and San Francisco designer Diego Pacheco’s Mill Valley remodel showcases space-saving ideas with Henrybuilt built-ins. And on a lighter note — because we need that too — we spotlight the Castro Theatre, the ribald, exhilarating scene of recurrent social change. We hope you enjoy these stories.

ZAHID SARDAR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, SPACES

Marion Brenner

“Paradise Calling” (p. 100), “In Bloom” (p. 117)

Berkeley photographer Marion Brenner’s work has appeared in national and international publications, including House & Garden, Garden Design and Martha Stewart Living magazines and The New York Times . She specializes in landscape and garden photography and did photography for the book In & Out of Paris: Gardens of Secret Delights. You can also see her work in the collections of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Matthew Millman

“Frame of Mind” (p. 56), “Déjà Vu” (p. 78)

For more than 20 years, Matthew Millman has been photographing architecture and interior design in the western U.S. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, Dwell, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Vogue and more. Millman also photographed the recently released book West Coast Modern

Braden Summers

Editor’s Welcome (p. 18)

Braden Summers is an artist and an award-winning photographer whose 2013 Kickstarter-funded All Love Is Equal photography series became a viral sensation and garnered global attention. He is equally known for his portraiture and lifestyle photography in national and international publications. In his words, the Connecticut-born artist/photographer, who is also forging new ground with his video portraits, alerts “the viewer to the beauty in people and their environment.” His work aims to highlight diversity in every sense of the word. When he is not on assignment, he spends his time on the West Coast and New York City.

STEVE KEPPLE

Rear Window (p. 122)

Marin resident Steve Kepple spent a decade in the Colorado Rockies as a ski patroller and framing carpenter before turning his long-running photography hobby into a profession. He now captures images of architecture and hospitality for a diverse set of clients.

David Weinstein

Rear Window (p. 122)

Dave Weinstein is a longtime El Cerrito author and journalist whose books include It Came from Berkeley: How Berkeley Changed the World and Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a reporter and editor for many years at the West County Times and Contra Costa Times. He also wrote a popular series of profiles of Bay Area architects for the San Francisco Chronicle Today he is features editor for CA Modern He’s the leader of El Cerrito Trail Trekkers and Friends of the Cerrito Theater and president of the El Cerrito Historical Society.

PAUL DYER

“The Next Wave” (p. 86), “Makeover” (p. 105)

Bay Area photographer Paul Dyer’s work has appeared in many publications, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor and House Beautiful . “I like working with architects and interior designers and a good mix of people who bring me to amazing locations and offer a different set of challenges each time,” he says.

Lisa Boquiren

Gallery (p. 31)

Marin-based editor and writer Lisa Boquiren, who was on the steering committee for the American Institute of Architects National Convention, is a design and architecture aficionada who also maintains a marketing consultancy.

LENNY GONZALEZ

Voices (p. 53)

Alameda portrait photographer Lenny Gonzalez works for commercial clients IDEO, Stanford Medicine and Glassdoor while maintaining a steady involvement in the local arts scene working for The Thing Quarterly, Kronos Quartet and InterMusic. His focus for the past five years has been on documenting the local creative music scene. A selection of these photographs can be seen in SFMOMA’s blog Open Space.

“Parallel Universe” (p. 68)

Cesar Rubio, a San Francisco–based photographer, has been documenting the work of architects and designers for more than 25 years, using an approach informed by his early studio work and a lifelong love of motion pictures.

LAURA HILGERS

Voices (p. 53)

Laura Hilgers, a regular contributor to Marin Magazine, is a Bay Area writer whose work has appeared in O, Sports Illustrated, Vogue and other publications. She enjoys the hiking trails of Marin.

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