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digitizingmillerhouseandgarden: Template on board with affixed paper squares for needlepoint cushion for dining room chair by Alexander Girard, 1974, FF061, Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art...

Clearly vexed by a critical review in Architectural Forum of his friend Alexander Girard’s Santa Fe house, Charles Eames wrote a short letter on December 26th 1956 to the magazine’s editor Walter McQuade: “Alexander Girard is interested in the quality...

The designer Alexander Girard in his studio in the early 1950s (photo by Charles Eames, courtesy of Vitra Design Museum, Alexander Girard Estate) (click to enlarge) WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY — Sometimes an exhibition can be so packed with information and...

Left: George Nelson, Ball Clock, 1948/60. Metal, brass, diameter: 13 inches. Photo: Andreas Sütterlin. © Vitra. Center: Frank O. Gehry, Wiggle Side Chair, 1972/2005. Corrugated cardboard, hardboard, 34 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 24 inches, height of seat: 17 inches...

(Wooden Dolls, designed 1953 by Alexander Girard, American, 19071995. Photo by Marc Eggimann, Lent by Vitra, Inc. Vitra) Furniture you sit on it, you sleep on it, you eat over it and the rest of the time, you take it for granted. Some furnishings,...