Alexander Girard Furniture  

The crazy chair and ottoman
I guess something went wrong with the last two:
Here they are; they were sold on eBay and I couldn't resist pinching the pictures....dig that crazy fabric:

i know the guy that bought ...
i know the guy that bought that chair i would take anything Girard did.

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That little ottoman/stool with the tan cushion on top seems to have come from a different suite; the base and feet remind me of another group altogether. Hmm ?

Correct
That little ottoman/stool with the tan cushion on top seems to have come from a different suite; the base and feet remind me of another group altogether. Hmm ?
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Right you are...clicked in the wronmg image.
My mistake.
But...don't you agree that the Girard designs are super-swell and nifty-spiffy-keno?

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I love this kinky line,had a chance to buy the armchair in this line 6 yrs ago...I was an idiot not to buy it.

SF MOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a Girard exhibit awhile back and had a good selection of his work. They had the Braniff airport sofa and it looks even nicer in person, I was dying to sit in it.

The 1st 3
my late friend owned the top 3 items, items he bought off the dying Braniff office in Minneapolis as they were going out of business.
They were in typically great condition, except for the petrified foam.
When he died, he donated his Girard suite to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
One feature about this grouping is how low to the floor they were. The couch was very low.
There must be a story about why Herman Miller discontinued them so soon as after they made them available for general sale (1 year).

Very small scale
I believe that this line was quite expensive, and did not sell very well. I've seen examples of this line several times, and was always surprised at how small-scaled it was. And, if memory serves, the seating (I think it was a version of the loveseat) was quite uncomfortable.
I had the distinct sense that Girard did not consider comfort as a particularly important aspect of this line. But maybe I was just the wrong sized person ...

Nothing looks better than ...
Nothing looks better than Girard fabric on shell chairs that is just like coming home.!! so many people always want their chairs done in that fabric, but I buy direct from maharam fabric and all of the Girard fabrics has gone to around $90.00 a yard with retailers trying to sell it for 140.00 .
this is very expensive as most great fabric can be purchased from 30 to 40 dollars a yard. so may be they are paying the Girard estate some royalty. That would go to the museum in Santa Fe (that would be a good thing)

HEMISPHERE 68 IN SAN ANTONIO
As A kid, all I can recall of the whole, is his exhibit...striking...

I do; I do
agree that these designs are super-swell and nifty-spiffy-keno !
He sure had an eye for color, too. . .

You're probably right, YCL
I do bet they were expensive. It was difficult to judge the comfort of my friend's suite-full of Girard furniture 'cause all of the foam was pertrifed and hard-as-a-rock.
Just like the Eames' LaFonda legs were a real design departure, so too were the Girard legs and bases...elegant beyond words.

Yeah, those are
particularly nice legs and feet.
One year, eh ? Amazing.

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