Marc Appleton is Principal of Appleton & Associates Inc. Architects with offices in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. He worked for several architectural firms before opening Appleton & Associates Inc in 1976. His design work has received many awards and been widely published in Architectural Digest, Town and Country, and other periodicals. He has consistently been named one of AD's top 100 Designers, and is the author of Rizzoli's California Mediterranean. Marc is a founding member of the Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch Foundation in Arizona and the Mingei International Museum of World Folks Art in San Diego. He has served on the Board of Trustees for Prescott College in Arizona, and currently serves on a number of committees and boards. Marc is a graduate of Harvard College (1968), and has a Masters of Architecture degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1972). Melba Levick is a widely published and exhibited photographer who lives and works in Paris; Venice, California; and Formentera, Spain. She has been the photographer for more than ten books published by Rizzoli, most recently The California Casa, Classic Homes of Los Angeles, and Dreaming Small.
The beautiful coffee-table book is packed with photographs and includes Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, and Piedra Blanca Rancho and Rancho Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County. --Santa Ynez Valley News