Marin Magazine - SPACES January 2017

J O E F L E T C H E R

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

READERS RESPOND TO THE
SUMMER/FALL 2016 ISSUE

I just finished reading my new favorite magazine: Marin At Home [now called SPACES].

I wish it came every month. Congratulations.

Delanie Read, via email

Hurray for the barn house (“The Barn & Beyond”) — love the Swiss Army Knife metaphor. This innovative design that enhances its special setting is compellingly photographed and deftly described. Bravo Ross, Joe and Zahid.

Dan Gregory, Hanley Wood LLC, San Francisco

I loved getting a look at Marin At Home; I want the A-frame house on the beach (“A-Game in Muir Beach”) — can that be arranged? A few thoughts: Marin might seem too limited a territory for a whole magazine, month after month, but Marin’s landscapes are so varied, with so many micro-ecosystems for houses to respond to and fit into, that for me, at least, that becomes sort of the subtext of the magazine.

One suggestion, if you don’t mind, which has to do with a pet peeve of mine — if at all feasible, don’t stuff pages and pages of advertising between the cover and contents page. When you open a magazine, the first thing you want to see is the table of contents, not a lot of ads. I know almost every magazine does this now;