Alexander Girard has fairly the historical past with Herman Miller: he served because the founding director of the corporate’s textile division in 1952, and spent over 20 years with the corporate — making a swath of memorable items from the playful Shade Wheel Ottoman to the invigorating Environmental Enrichment Panels. “I’ve no favourite materials,” Girard as soon as stated. “Something can be utilized to create magnificence if dealt with properly.”
Now, Herman Miller is giving one in every of Girard’s designs a large launch for the primary time: the Girard Flower Desk, a brass construction that boats scalloped edges on its spherical prime and a repeating, petal-shaped sample at its base. The Girard Flower Desk initially debuted as a part of the Miller Home in Columbus, Indiana, a house that Girard designed in collaboration with the famed architect Eero Saarinen — and it sat on the center of a lush dialog pit.
In 2022, Girard Studio — a corporation based by the Girard household and run by Girard’s grandchildren to advertise and protect his designs — labored with Vitra to carry the desk again to market, and now Herman Miller is making it accessible in North America for the primary time ever.
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It’s now product of powder-coated metal as an alternative of brass, making it acceptable for each indoor and outside use, and is obtainable in each anthracite and crimson in addition to small and huge sizes (the assorted sizes and colours have been made to seamlessly stand alone or collectively).
“What Girard dropped at fashionable design was a warmness and a humanity. He wasn’t afraid of utilizing textures and shiny colours, which [his collegue] George Nelson and Herman Miller embraced,” stated Amy Auscherman, the pinnacle of archives and model heritage at MillerKnoll. ““He introduced a levity to an in any other case chilly notion of modernism on the time, which got here by in each room of the Miller Home and different well-known interiors he designed.”
You should buy the Girard Flower Desk by way of the Herman Miller webstore now in addition to at Herman Miller and MillerKnoll sellers. The small desk is priced at $995 USD, whereas the massive desk retails for $1,295 USD.
