Sunset Magazine Kicked Out of Their Beloved Cliff May-designed HQ

2014-12-17T12:25:00-05:00

In a letter to employees Wednesday, Time Inc. announced that it had sold Sunset’s serene seven-acre Menlo Park, Calif., campus of carefully designed gardens and 1950s ranch-style buildings to Embarcadero Capital Partners, a San Francisco real estate investment and management company.

This is so sad, as it very likely means the demolition of Cliff May's beautiful and quintessentially Californian design. I would have loved to have visited the campus.

I can easily credit Sunset Magazine with being a major influence on my decision to become an architect: as a pre-teen I pored over their 1974 "Garden & Patio Building" book - I literally read every single word multiple times.

My family had a subscription to the magazine, as have I for most of my adult life. In fact, just last night I made a recipe (Corn Flour Orange Chiffon Cake) from the current issue to bring to our office holiday party.

So sad. California 'necters, make sure to go visit this legendary place while you still can! Info on visiting here.

Architectural review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at UC Santa Barbara

2012-03-30T18:24:00-04:00

To the extent that modernism in architecture was about clearing the historical decks — about dramatically and even gleefully breaking with the past — Cliff May was never cut out to be a modernist. Not an orthodox one, anyway.

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Sunset Magazine Kicked Out of Their Beloved Cliff May-designed HQ

Architectural review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at UC Santa Barbara