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Title: Paul Tuttle papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000185
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4.3 Linear feet
(1 record storage box, 1 flat file drawer, and 1 tube)
Date (inclusive): circa 1940-circa 2001
Location note: Boxes 1-2/ADC - regular Box 3/ADC - oversize** (framed drawing of dropleaf dining table) 1 Flat File Drawer/Mosher - flat
files 1 Tube/ ADC - oversize ** (tube shelf)
creator:
Tuttle, Paul, 1918-2002
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Andy Neumann, 2002. Additional materials gifted by Loma Griffith, 2003.
Paul Tuttle papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Paul Tuttle was born in 1918 in Springfield, Missouri. He was stationed in India during WWII as a cartographer, an experience
that he said made him want to go into design and architecture. After the war, Tuttle enrolled in what is known now as the
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, but quickly realized that school was not for him. Tuttle went on to
work for his former professor, the designer Alvin Lustig. Tuttle participated in the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin West Fellowship
in Scottsdale Arizona during 1949. After Taliesin, Tuttle went on to work for architects Thornton Ladd and Welton Becket.
In 1956, Tuttle moved to Santa Barbara where he began working intensely on his custom and manufactured furniture, as well
as architectural and interior projects. His more notable work includes: the Arco chair, the Z chair, and the six residences
he designed in Santa Barbara. Over the course of his career, Tuttle completed 200 pieces of custom furniture. His work was
exhibited twice at the University of California, Santa Barbara Art Museum once in 1978 “Paul Tuttle, Designer” and then again
in 2001 “Paul Tuttle Retrospective.” Paul Tuttle died in 2002 at the age of 84.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tuttle, Paul, 1918-2002
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