Architectural Digest - January 2004

ARC 1W TURAL DIGES

THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF INTERIOR DESIGN

JANUARY 2004

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1556 17th St. Santa Monica, CA 90404 310-828-0430 Fax: 310-828-0631 921 De La Vina St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-965-0304

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or Marc Yale School Appleton, of Architecture the traditional graduate, is radical. who worked The with Frank Gehry before striking out on his own in 1976, believes that his gutsiest move, “in an era still heavily in fluenced by modernism, may have been returning to classical influences.” He also advocates a return to small er buildings. “I think the McMansion syndrome is wear ing thin with many people,” he comments. Appleton’s West Coast style owes a debt to role models such as George Washington Smith, Gordon Kaufman, Wallace Neff and Paul It Williams. “These are all architects who were very rich in their reference to architectural history in ways that became, I think, typically California,” he says. Appleton’s current projects include a Santa Barbara equestrian estate and two houses in Carmel Valley.