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Jack Boyd
Japan
Mosaic mural by Genaro Álvarez
Greta Grossman
Alexander Girard and George Nelson/Irving Harper

Weekend / Stuff

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Meridian clock by Raymor and Howard Miller
Abel Sorenson
Tunsi Girard, Alexander's brother
Bruce Hill for Peter Pepper Products

Alexander Girard / St Johns

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In 1964, Alexander Girard redesigned the interiors of Saint Johns College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

 Artists painting the Girard mural.
Source: St Johns Digital Archive 
It still looks great. 










Gerard also designed this light fixture for the college.
Source:ALEXANDER GIRARD, by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee
Source:ALEXANDER GIRARD, by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee

Weekend / Stuff

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Clay
Greta Grossman
Paul McCobb
Alexander Girard and kid's stuff

Weekend /Stuff

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Alexander Girard paper
A. Quincy Jones, Builder's Homes for Better Living and an LTR that was once belonged to him.
LTRs in "The Barn". The Textile & Objects posters in the top picture also came from the Jones estate, via LAMA. Source:  Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Reading material

Raymor, Tom Tramel, Rupert Desse, Brent Bennet,

Knorr / Girard

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Scoren House (1969) in Woodside, CA by Don Knorr Robert Scoren, a dentist in Palo Alto, had his friend Don Knorr design a house for him.  Another friend, Alexander Girard, designed the doors and a number of other features of the house. I was able to get inside for a tour. Girard sketches of the SCOREN doors.  Source: House Industries
Wall of cabinets covered in Girard textiles by Herman Miller. 

Source: ALEXANDER GIRARD book by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee


Scoren, like Girard, was a folk art collector.
Source:ALEXANDER GIRARD book by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee
The bed and art are gone, but the Girard wall is still there. 
Herman Miller and Knoll once dined together in the Scoren house.
Source: 568 Mountain Home Road
Nelson, Girard and Eames were in the living room.
Source: SocketSite