Alexander Girard’s poster for “The Nativity,” a folk art exhibition at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, which the designer curated in 1962 (photos courtesy of Vitra Design ...

”Memory is very peculiar,” observed Alexander Girard over lunch in the Compound Restaurant, a quiet, slick, cosmopolitan space fashioned in the architect-designer`s interpretation of ...

The last two of Alexander Girard’s residences were in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he and his family moved in 1953. His first property had two adobe structures that were more than a century old.

Legendary designer Alexander Girard fused sleek modernism with playful folk art. At Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art, "A Designer's Universe" highlights Girard's breadth of creativity ...

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe. Exhibit at the Cranbrook Art Museum runs through Oct. 8. Hours, admission fees, related events and more information at cranbrookartmuseum.org.

If my Alexander Girard-loving colleague Deborah Netburn should ever go AWOL, I know one place to look for her. While touring the new Los Angeles Herman Miller showroom ...

Established in 1966, Compound Restaurant is arguably the most genial environment for soaking in Alexander Girard’s many talents as an architect, interior designer, typographer, and a champion ...

Girard’s folk art collection reached 106,000 pieces before he donated it to the Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe, in 1978. Dozens of those items–which include figurines, toys, and ...

Designer Alexander Girard has been called “the perfecter of the conversation pit form.” One need look no further than the multicolored and once-radical conversation pit in the Miller House ...

Lot Size: 0.21 acres. From the Agent: "This pueblo revival–style masterpiece is a former home of the iconic Santa Fe artist and architect Alexander Girard.Charles and Ray Eames spent vacations ...

In 1937 Alexander Girard and Susan moved to Grosse Pointe, Michigan. They lived in a small apartment while renovating a home nearby, eventually moving to this residence on Lakeland Avenue in 1944.