Sea Ranch
Sea Ranch is an architecturally significant, mostly unknown, but entirely magical place in Northern California. Many of the mid-century masters have a piece here. Visit as often as you can.
Sea Ranch Condominium One
Sea Ranch House
Charles Moore at Sea Ranch
Sea Ranch House
Sea Ranch House
Sea Ranch Cabin
Sea Ranch House
The Sea Ranch Chapel by Hubbell and Hubbell
For Gabriel Ramirez and his partner Sarah Mason Williams, following the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. The architects love Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, and they made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house “was very crisp and clean,” he says. “This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi.”