Sunset Western Ranch Houses
San Francisco: Lane Publishing Co., 1946. First Edition. In collaboration with Cliff May. 4to. 160 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions, renderings, and floor plans. From the library of C(olumbus). J. Ryland (1892–1980), a prolific California architect whose career spanned over six decades, specializing in Spanish Colonial Revival, Streamline Moderne, and Monterey Colonial styles, with a profound impact on public buildings, residences, and educational facilities in the Central Valley and Monterey Bay region—making him a pivotal figure in preserving the area's architectural heritage during the early-to-mid-20th century. Tan and yellow cloth with black lettering in publisher's dustjacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, else a fine copy in very good dustjacket (wear and chips to extremities; large chip at spine head). Item #22942
One of the earlier references for modern house design in the United States and the first totally devoted to the Western ranch house style popularized by Cliff May in the pages of Sunset Magazine. It is a fascinating study of the roots of the ranch style, and it is also a compendium of ideas for today's home builders. The ranch house’s successful design for living — a rambling, one-story floor plan oriented to an extensive garden and one or more patios that functioned as “outdoor rooms”. Never trained or licensed as an architect, Cliff May was an artist: a saxophone player turned furniture designer who expanded his scope first into staging mission style houses, then designing ranch houses, and ending by inspiring a whole housing movement.
Price: $200.00