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La maison Oakmont à Los Angeles, en Californie, conçue en 1956 par Cliff May (1909-1989) rénovée & restaurée par la société Marmol Radziner. Photo Joyce Kim. - source MCM Daily.

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What is most interesting about Mandalay was May’s ideas about the ranch style. Although May designed the house as an asymmetrical, one-story dwelling, the plan was complex, forming courtyards on both sides of the house rather than having the main courtyard in the center. The roof was low-pitched with wide overhanging eaves but covered with rock rather than wood shingles. May included board-and-batten as well as white-plastered walls but felt that he needed to give the house “a sophisticated touch of the Spanish past.” To achieve such an earthy, rustic look, he added Spanish, Mexican, and French architectural crafts and decorative elements: a sixteenth-century Gothic grille, historic doors, lighting fixtures, and wrought-iron door handles, and antiquated books.

May added a new concept to the idea of bringing the outdoors in. Not only did he use the same paving materials inside and out but also the same ceiling and wall materials. Wooden roof beams and rafters as well as board-and-batten and white-plastered walls extended both inside and out. Moreover, May included radiant heating in the patio terraces, and outdoor lighting matched the interior fixtures — a classic May touch used in other homes to make the outdoors feel as part of the indoors at night.

https://spfaust.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/developer-cliff-mays-last-home-mandalay-old-ranch-road-los-angeles/

http://historicplacesla.org/reports/cd691e9b-3fda-4fb0-b0e0-7d8313313e10

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/architectural-drawings-reveal-roots-of-california-modern

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For a non-architect, Cliff May left quite a legacy of residences behind in his corner of the California universe.

There are about 3,000 of them, including those he licensed to others. So says Jocelyn Gibbs, curator of architecture and design at the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

“He was a skilled builder,” she says. “He had an idea about a certain way that people ought to live, and that was that it should be a ranch house.

May was a descendant of one of the first land grant families in San Diego, and spent the summers of his youth on their ranch north of San Diego, riding horses and living among the adobe and courtyards of the vernacular architecture.

“He recognized that the ranch carried a certain appeal of old California,” she says.

http://architectsandartisans.com/california-modernism-from-cliff-may/

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