Mutuus Studio Information

The Studio is led by three founding partners that draw from their artistic backgrounds to inform their work – 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 ten our team works enthusiastically and collaboratively with our clients, builders, and craftspeople to create authentic and unique environments. 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 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 and we see our clients and the builders as true collaborators. Our primary focus of our firm is Architecture yet we take on a broad range of design projects from residential and commercial projects to hospitality and artist collaboration projects. At Mutuus, we feel that our role as designers is to help narrate the story of our clients’ lives through the careful curation of furnishings, objects, and art. When you start from a position of telling your clients’ personal story, each project necessarily becomes unique because our clients are unique. We approach each of our projects with the utmost attention to detail and limit the number of projects that we have in the studio so we can provide the utmost attention that our clients deserve. We have a natural curiosity and passion for design and seek to work with clients that share a mutual obsession for highly crafted spaces with a sensitivity to the environment.