CELEBRATING

Some images just stick. Here are a few shots of some iconic spaces that are hard to forget.

By Ian McMaster & Jickie Torres

PHOTO BY BRET GUM WORDS BY MICHELLE MASTRO

Issue: Fall 2022

It’s always a coup when you can score an era architect’s own home. That was Mike and Alison Presser’s experience with their home in Riverside, California, designed by distinguished area architect Clinton Marr for himself. The family room is just off the entrance to the home and its glass gives visitors spectacular views of the backyard, beyond which tree groves once stood. “The groves of walnut trees the house once abutted were seemingly framed in by the walls of glass that run along the back of the house and overlook the backyard,” Mike says. “It was as if Clinton Marr chose this lot for its abundance of nature.”