Founded in 2016, Mutuus Studio is a Seattle-based studio known for their refined architecture, interiors and objects that blend into one immersive environment. Our firm takes on a broad range of design projects from residential and commercial projects to hospitality and artist collaboration projects.
Our name Mutuus (moo-tus) is a the latin word for “mutual / exchange”. The name reinforces our studio philosophy that design is inherently collaborative and mutually beneficial. Although each project has a project leader, all of the three partners work together collaboratively on all the projects and lend one anothers expertise to a given project.
The Studio is led by three partners that all have artistic backgrounds – Jim Friesz, Kristen Becker and Saul Becker – architect/ musician, designer/ dancer, and artist/ builder – each contribute a unique vision to the firm’s multi-faceted mission by drawing on their diverse backgrounds to inform their work. Supported by a design staff of four including an in -house interiors team, the studio works enthusiastically and collaboratively with our clients, builders, and craftspeople to create authentic and unique environments.
Both Kristen and Jim are LEED AP’s and are committed to embedding national sustainable standards and equitable practices into our work. Saul and Kristen were a part of the early Green Building Community and both worked building straw bale houses in Colorado. Kristen is co-author of the book “The Good Office: Green Design on the Cutting Edge’. Mutuus was a part of the MoMA and PS1 Contemporary Art Center “Rising Currents” exhbit that to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation’s largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change.
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
LEARN MORE: mutuus-studio.com
The Grocery Studios is the private home and art studio for a creative couple in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The studio is a creative space where the clients host pop-up art exhibitions, workshops, lectures, music performances
Bold enough to take its name from an exploding star, Supernova Nightclub is the creation of design visionary Zac Levine who teamed with Mutuus Studio and GMD Custom to build Seattle’s most culturally inclusive atmospheric arts and entertainment nightclub.
The Hollywood Hills House indulges with a double stair, separating the space sequence into private and public quarters. The public continues down to the media, the private on the other hand, introduced the private quarters.
The restaurant takes its name, Samara, from the winged fruit of maple trees that twirls like a helicopter. That attention to nature find its counterpart in the design of the restaurant. Inside, rich earth tones dominate, bringing to mind a tranquil wooded understory.
