One of the few to attain that level of collector mania? The midcentury architect and designer Alexander Girard. Girard’s folk art collection reached 106,000 pieces before he donated it to the ...

Alexander Girard's miniature folk art collection hopes to evoke common humanity. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, iconic 20th-century designer Alexander Girard’s passion for folk art is on view at the ...

Now celebrating its seventieth anniversary, the Museum of International Folk Art has always drawn a remarkable range ... a grassroots start-up to a global phenomenon. Our new book, Alexander Girard: ...

Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe' is the latest exhibition to ... ‘living’ interiors and restaurant concepts; and his extensive folk art collection. ‘We normally showcase around 300 items in an ...

The Miller House and Garden was completed in 1957. It was designed by architects J. Irwin Miller, Dan Kiley and Alexander ...

‘Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe’, opening in May 2019. Organised by the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition will be staged at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, where it will ...

Photo: Girard Studio Alexander Girard’s textiles ... The city of Santa Fe was not yet an art-world destination in the 1950s. Girard said he moved there to have “the luxury of not being ...

and with support from the Columbus Museum of Art and Design. A screamingly hued mural, inspired by designer Alexander Girard’s vibrant color palette, will be done for the installation titled “ ...

Significantly, both objects emerge from O’Keeffe’s friendship with textile designer and architect Alexander Girard, who relocated to New Mexico from Michigan with his wife, Susan, in 1953.