Studio Retreat: Sea Ranch

Without a keen eye, one could almost miss it. A slightly deserted, nevertheless breath-taking community of architecturally cohesive and beautifully inconspicuous cedar abodes. In the words of Joseph Esherick “the ideal kind of building is one you don’t see”.

Over the three days spent together in Sea Ranch, the buildings would often disappear. Cement foundation gone, hard-edged, warm windows invisible, splintering walls melting away, years of work vanished around you into the windswept coastline.

All making way for another space more expansive. A boundlessness to fill with equal parts intuition and structure.

By night we looked to the stars, and by day bags of ice turned long sleeve t-shirts into idiosyncratic rainbows.

Colors chosen carefully, mixing slowly, marrying chance, strategy, and wisdom hard-earned over thirteen years.

“Success = modest improvement consistently done.”
—James Kerr