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Title: Paul László papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000150
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
24.0 Linear feet
(7 record storage boxes, 5 flat file drawers, 1 model)
Date (inclusive): 1925-1975
creator:
Laszlo, Paul, 1900-1993 -- Archives
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Paul László, 1974. Additional material gifted from Loma Griffifth in 1978 and 2003.
Paul László papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Paul László, interior designer and architect, was born February 6, 1900 in Hungary. He attended the Staatliche Akademie der
Bilden den Kunste in Stuttgart, Germany where he studied architecture and design. László apprenticed with Fritz August Brueuhaus
in Cologne Germany before he opened his practice in Vienna in 1925, at the age of 24. In 1936, László moved to Los Angeles
where he quickly gained residential commissions. Throughout László’s career the majority of his work consisted of ultra-modern,
spacious residential homes for celebrities and the wealthy. He designed homes for Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor
and Barbara Hutton. László often designed all of the furniture and interiors for the structures he designed. As his career
progressed László focused more of his energy on interior design. Some of his more notable projects include: Bullock’s, Goldwater’s,
Robinson’s and Ohrhach’s department stores, a bomb shelter for Mr. John Daniel Hertz, and the Illing of California. Paul László
died on March 27, 1993, at the age of 93.
The Paul László papers span 24 linear feet and date from 1925 to 1975. The collection primarily consists of presentation boards
of commercial buildings (interior and exterior) and furniture designs. However, the collection also contains architectural
drawings and reprographic copies, correspondence, black-and-white photographs, and magazine and newspaper clippings arranged
by project.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Laszlo, Paul, 1900-1993
Architect-designed furniture -- United States -- 20th century
Architects -- California
Architectural drawings
Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th Century
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles
Correspondence
Furniture design
Modern movement (Architecture) -- California
Negatives
Photographic prints
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Reprographic copies
Sketches