Ranches: Home on the Range in California

Description

Like Rizzoli's Stables and Hunt Country Style and At Home in the American Barn, Ranches celebrates a lifestyle that, at its essence, is one tied to the land - where horses and cattle graze, where crops are planted and harvested - and at the center of all this is warm domesticity, home, embodied in the ranch house. This book will focus on architecture and interiors of the homes at each ranch's center, and will be of interest to home owners, architects, and interior designers. Ranches presents the best California ranches, from the historic Rancho Camulos of 1842 - the purported home of the heroine of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona - to working ranches and small ranches, to trophy ranches or "gentleman's ranches," such as the home of Will Rogers, in Pacific Palisades, and Jack London's Beauty Ranch, in the bucolic Glen Ellen on Sonoma Mountain.

Marc Appleton is Principal of Appleton & Associates Inc. Architects with offices in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. He worked for several architectural firms before opening Appleton & Associates Inc in 1976. His design work has received many awards and been widely published in Architectural Digest, Town and Country, and other periodicals. He has consistently been named one of AD's top 100 Designers, and is the author of Rizzoli's California Mediterranean. Marc is a founding member of the Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch Foundation in Arizona and the Mingei International Museum of World Folks Art in San Diego. He has served on the Board of Trustees for Prescott College in Arizona, and currently serves on a number of committees and boards. Marc is a graduate of Harvard College (1968), and has a Masters of Architecture degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1972). Melba Levick is a widely published and exhibited photographer who lives and works in Paris; Venice, California; and Formentera, Spain. She has been the photographer for more than ten books published by Rizzoli, most recently The California Casa, Classic Homes of Los Angeles, and Dreaming Small.

"The beautiful coffee-table book is packed with photographs and includes Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, and Piedra Blanca Rancho and Rancho Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County." -Santa Ynez Valley News