Clif and Lou Sawyer

Cliff and Lou Sawyer
Nationality American
Known for architecture
Graphic design
Notable work Luau in Beverly Hills, Don the Beachcomber in Palm Springs.
Movement Modernism

Clif Sawyer (Clifton Howard) (1896–1966) and Lou Sawyer (1905–1995) were an American husband and wife architectural design team who specialized in the creation of twentieth century exotica, Polynesian and tiki bars and restaurants in the western United States, primarily in Southern California and Arizona.

Life

Lou Sawyer was born 1905 in the Basque region. Clif Sawyer was born 1896 in Boston. The couple meet in Paris. They moved to California in the early 1930s beginning an interior design company. Together they created some of the most beloved and memorable exotic interiors of the mid-twentieth century influencing American interior design and popularizing the tiki movement. Projects include Don the Beachcomber in Palm Springs, the Luau in Beverly Hills, the Pago Pago Lounge in Tucson, and the Reef in Casper, Wyoming.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Finding Aid for the Cliff & Lou Sawyer papers, circa 1930-circa 1979 0000174". www.oac.cdlib.org. line feed character in |title= at position 69 (help)
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