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BARBARA STAUFFACHER SOLOMON AND
SEA RANCH
SEA RANCH SUPERGRAPHICS
Sonoma County, California, USA
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b. 1928), Designer
San Francisco, California, USA
1966
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon pioneered the
use of Supergraphics* in 1966 with her work
for Sea Ranch, a residential community in
Sonoma County, California. Sea Ranch, noted
for its distinctive contemporary architecture of
simple timber-frame structures clad in wood
siding and shingles, was designed by Charles
Moore (1925–1993) of Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull
& Whitaker and landscape architect Lawrence
Halprin (1916–2009) in the vernacular style of
the rugged coastline ...