Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll Textiles & Objects
By Alexander Girard, Marilyn Neuhart
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
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Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll Textiles & Objects
By Marilyn Neuhart, Alexander Girard
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
Wool, Linen, Silk
Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll from Textiles & Objects
By Marilyn Neuhart, Alexander Girard
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
Wool, Linen, Silk
Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll Textiles and Objects
By Alexander Girard, Marilyn Neuhart
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
Wool, Linen, Silk
Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll from Textiles and Objects
By Alexander Girard, Marilyn Neuhart
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
Wool, Linen, Silk
Vitra Wooden Doll No. 1 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 8 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 7 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 4 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 5 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Little Devil Wooden Doll by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 18 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 22 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 17 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 14 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll Large Cat by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll Small Dog by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 16 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 15 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll Large Dog by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 20 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 10 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 9 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll Cat Small by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 13 by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 11 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 21 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Dolls Mother Fish and Child by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Girard Pierce Arrow French Roadster
By Girard 3
Located in Chicago, IL
compartment and Girard Balloon tires.
Vitra Wooden Dog Small by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Little Wooden Devil by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
Eames and George Nelson, Alexander Girard was one of the leading figures of Postwar American design. A
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 19 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Akris Cotton Top With Alexander Girard Print, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
colorful print of Mr. Girard's folkloric dolls incorporating shades of red, green, blue, black, pink and
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deKooning Book w. Girard Doll_Mary Finlayson_Vinyl/Gouache/Maple- Wall Sculpture
By Mary Finlayson
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Mary Finlayson deKooning Book with Girard Doll Vinyl Paint and Gouache on Maple 46 x 31 inches
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Marilyn Neuhart Alexander Girard Doll from Textiles & Objects
By Alexander Girard, Marilyn Neuhart
Located in Atlanta, GA
rare grouping of Neuhart dolls we have available and for Girard's poster promoting Textiles & Objects
Wool, Linen, Silk
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Mid-Century Modern Textile Art Handweaving in Manner of Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard
Located in Peabody, MA
the whimsical dolls of Alexander Girard. Measurement does not include hanging rod.
Alexander Girard "Dolls" Environmental Enrichment Panel, 1971
By Alexander Girard
Located in Brooklyn, NY
BRIGHT LYONS holds the world's largest private collection of objects designed by Alexander Girard
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 1 by Alexander Girard, 1stdibs Gallery Showroom Sample
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 2 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 3 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 6 by Alexander Girard
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
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Vitra Wooden Doll No. 5 by Alexander Girard, 1stdibs Gallery Showroom Sample
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
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Vitra Little Wooden Devil by Alexander Girard, 1stdibs Gallery Showroom Sample
By Vitra, Alexander Girard
Located in New York, NY
Eames and George Nelson, Alexander Girard was one of the leading figures of postwar American design. A
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The director of design for the textiles department at Herman Miller, Inc., from 1952 to 1973, mid-century modern visionary Alexander Girard introduced bright, bouncy colors to upholstery and drapery fabrics, created jaunty graphics for marketing and advertising materials and devised motifs for everything from textiles to ceramics based on his true love: folk art from cultures around the globe.
The son of an American mother and an Italian father, Girard (known as Sandro to his friends) was born in New York City in 1907 but raised in Florence. He came from a creative family — his father was a master woodworker — and Girard began drawing and making his own playthings as a youngster. He had a fascination for nativity crèche tableaux, an enthusiasm that likely was the germ for his later interest in folk art. He went on to earn degrees in architecture at schools in both Rome and London before returning to New York in the 1930s and working in interior design.
By the 1940s, he and his wife, Susan, had moved to Detroit, where Girard was head of design for Detrola, a firm specializing in tabletop radios. The elegant bentwood housings that he developed for the devices won him acclaim, but, more importantly, at Detrola he met Charles Eames. The two became lifelong friends, and it was Eames who drew Girard toward Herman Miller, which had no dedicated textile department until Girard arrived, and most of its furniture was upholstered in mundane, “safe” hues. Girard changed all that, introducing fabrics in vivid shades of red, orange, yellow and blue. His early designs incorporated geometric motifs — stripes, circles, square, triangles and such. But toward the end of the 1950s he began to introduce folk art themes into his designs.
Girard did not collect important or expensive folk pieces. Rather he was drawn to simple objects such as handmade toys, figurines and models of animals, buildings and plants. The fabrics that emerged had whimsical, lighthearted motifs depicting, for example, angels, children, birds and flowers. Toward the end of his term with Herman Miller, in an effort to achieve what he termed “aesthetic functionalism,” Girard produced a group of what he called “Environmental Enrichment” pieces — silk-screened cotton panels emblazoned with various graphic designs, from bold geometric patterns to folk art themes. They were meant to divide spaces in offices or the home in lieu of walls while simultaneously functioning as art. Today, panels of vintage Girard upholstery textiles have become premium collectibles. The designer's furniture is less well known, primarily because most of it was created for private commissions.
Girard’s most lasting contribution may be his folk art collection. He and Susan had begun gathering pieces shortly after their marriage, in 1936. By the 1970s, they had amassed the world’s largest collection of cross-cultural folk art, composed of more than 100,000 pieces from around the world. The Girards donated their holdings to the Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe (where they had moved in the ’60s), quintupling the institution’s collection, and a new wing — named for the Girards — had to be built to hold it.
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