Sawyer (Cliff & Lou) papers, circa 1930-circa 1979

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Summary

Title:
Cliff and Lou Sawyer papers
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1979
Creators:
Cliff and Lou Sawyer., Sawyer, Cliff, (Clifton Howard), 1896-1966, and Sawyer, Lou, 1905-1995
Extent:
13.0 Linear feet (2 record storage box and 3 flat file drawers)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Cliff and Lou Sawyer papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Cliff and Lou Sawyer papers span 13 linear feet and date from circa 1930 to circa 1979. The collection is primarily composed of architectural drawings and reprographic copies of restaurants designed by the Sawyers as well as project notes, ephemera, newspaper clippings, small sketches of restaurant exteriors, and disbound scrapbook pages which document the many restaurants designed by the husband and wife team.

Biographical / historical:

Cliff and Lou Sawyer were a husband and wife design team whose work consisted primarily of designing and decorating food and beverage establishments in southern California. Lou Sawyer was born in the Basque country in the Pyrenees between France and Spain in 1905. Cliff Sawyer was born in Boston in 1896. Lou met her husband Cliff Sawyer in Paris, where he was studying art and design. The two left France for California in the early 1930s. Once in California, the two began an interior design business together. In 1966, Cliff Sawyer died and Lou Sawyer carried on the business, completing her 368th job by 1968. Lou Sawyer died in 1995. Over the course of their careers some of their more notable projects include: the original Luau in Beverly Hills, Don the Beachcomber in Palm Springs, Pago Pago in Long Beach and Tucson, Arizona, and the Reef in Casper, Wyoming.

Custodial history:

Gift of Henry Mazur, 1996.

Physical location:
Box 1-2/ADC - regular 3 Flat File Drawers/ADC - flat files
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino and Julia Larson (2019 revision)
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Date Prepared:
10/1/2012
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-03-06T08:12-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

Cliff and Lou Sawyer papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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