- Designed by
- Paul Tuttle
United States, active United States, California, Santa Barbara, 1918-2002 - Title
- Z Chair
- Date Made
- circa 1964
- Medium
- Chrome-plated steel, original leather
- Dimensions
- 28 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 32 in. (71.76 x 67.95 x 81.28 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2008.94
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
After a decade of working in wood, designer Paul Tuttle shifted to metal. He challenged himself to develop a form that would have been impossible in the former material, eventually creating the steeply cantilevered Z chair, made in strong, flexible steel. Eudorah Moore selected the chair for California Design 9 and for a related display at Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, where Tuttle won the department store’s Young Designer award in 1966.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
