MATTER OF PLACE · EDITORIAL DESK
California
THE PLACE
Setting first.
California is terrain before it is anything else. Ridges, canyons and bluffs decide where a house can sit, and the light, fog-filtered in the north, hard and golden in the south, decides how it should open.
PLACES WE FOLLOW
Los Angeles · Malibu · Beverly Hills · Westside · Orange County · San Francisco Bay Area · Wine Country · Select architectural destinations
HOW WE READ CALIFORNIA
- Terrain
- Hillside lots, fire zones and coastal bluffs shape every plan. The best houses step with the land rather than flatten it.
- Lineage
- Bay Region shingle and redwood, Case Study glass and steel, Spanish Colonial courtyards, Sea Ranch restraint.
- Light
- Marine layer on the coast, clear heat inland. Overhangs, clerestories and deep eaves do the real work.
- What we look for
- Original architects on record, views held not borrowed, indoor-outdoor rooms that are used.
REGIONS
Within California
OPENING SOON
No property is listed in California yet.
The California desk is reading the market and reviewing what agents send us. We will write when the first California property is published.