[3] CA-Modern was published by the Eichler Network, a company based in San Francisco that continues to operate a website and sends weekly e-mail news features to subscribers.
Founded in 1993 by publisher Marty Arbunich, first as a four-page letter-size, black-and-white mailer and then as a 16-page tabloid newsletter also called Eichler Network, it became a 36-page oversized color magazine in January 2006.
The switch in format and name from Eichler Network to CA-Modern included an increased geographic scope, adding Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Long Beach-Orange, and Palm Springs editions, and coincided with a broadening of the subject matter.
The magazine featured extensive color photography and mid-century type design, and the website and email newsletters continue that tradition.
In January 2012, the magazine entered the national conversation about Apple innovator Steve Jobs, who had reportedly drawn design inspiration from his childhood Eichler home.