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. — New York Times
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.
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I have walked by there lots of times - Menlo Park has many great mid century(20th) - Eichlers
I used to clip the architectural details. Lost that box.... Isn't the complete Sunset run on a DVD?
Here is the cake I made - bonus, it's gluten-free if you go for that kind of thing!
Thanks for posting, Donna.
Yes, Sunset taught me to better read floor plans and mentally connect them with photographs of interiors and exteriors. I could always look at a new issue for fresh content when I'd gotten tired of poring over my local library's half-dozen books on architecture yet again. (I can sketch all levels of the White House floor plan from memory, thank you very much.)
And, beautiful cake! I'll take my slice with extra gluten, please ;o)
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