Alexander Girard’s textiles, his designs for Herman Miller, his restaurant design for La Fonda del Sol in New York, and his interior design for J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Miller’s house in ...

Alexander Girard's folk art collection at Museum of International Folk Art Museum Alexander Girard donated 100,000 objects from his and his wife Susan’s folk art collection to the Museum of ...

Significantly, both objects emerge from O’Keeffe’s friendship with textile designer and architect Alexander Girard, who relocated to New Mexico from Michigan with his wife, Susan, in 1953.

Alexander Girard has quite the history with Herman Miller: he served as the founding director of the company’s textile division in 1952, and spent over two decades with the company — creating ...

Until now, Alexander Girard's work has been relatively unknown – certainly when compared to the fame of his contemporaries Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and George Nelson, say – but that is ...

“Born in 1907 in New York City and raised in Florence, Italy, Alexander Girard revolutionized mid-century American design” asserts a press release on a just-published coffee table book on ...

Designer Alexander Girard has been called “the perfecter of the conversation pit form.” One need look no further than the multicolored and once-radical conversation pit in the Miller House ...

He placed some cushions at floor level. Photo: Girard Studio Alexander Girard’s textiles, his designs for Herman Miller, his restaurant design for La Fonda del Sol in New York, and his interior ...