Rancho Dos Vidas
Hester
the Renaissance architect Giorgio Vasari." The viewer
is reminded of Julia Morgan's work for Hearst at San
Simeon and elsewhere, in particular, her designs for the
guest houses on that iconic estate. Whereas Morgan
was fastidiously loyal to the minutiae of the BeauxArts, rendering some of her creations overwrought,
Imber presents a near-ideal of the genre, refraining from
extreme ornamentation where it would be superfluous.
Few houses, whatever their size, resemble more the
ideal of a Mediterranean villa at home in America than
the Walker House, achieved by a successful ordered
irregularity, often the hallmark of genius.
HYLAND
