PBS’ ‘Craft in America’ show highlights Inverness resident, architect and environmentalist

MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL

By PJ BREMIER | pj@pjbremier.com | IJ correspondent

Dec 9, 2022

When the producers of “Craft in America,” a Peabody Award-winning documentary series that’s aired on PBS since 2007, wanted to take a look at craft artists and handmade homes in America, they made their way to the Inverness home of Sim Van der Ryn.

“We first turned to the brilliance of Wharton Esherick and then decided to look into handmade homes on the West Coast to see how they might be different from Esherick’s aesthetic,” says Jacoba Atlas, the segment’s senior advisor.

Van der Ryn intrigued them.

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Sim Van der Ryn’s Inverness home is featured in PBS’ “Craft in America” show. Photo: Richard Olsen
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Sim Van der Ryn. Denise Kang photograph