The Wooden Dolls by Alexander Girard are a large family of wooden
figures representing human and animal characters. Girard designed them
in 1953 for his own use as decorative objects in his Santa Fe home.
These originals, which are part of the Girard estate in the holdings of
the Vitra Design Museum, served as models for the current re-editions.
Precisely replicated down to the last detail, the many different Wooden
Dolls are still fabricated and painted by hand today, just like the
vintage pieces by Alexander Girard. And even if the differences between
them are only very slight: each wooden figure is a unique, individual
product, truly one of a kind.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Born in 1907 in New York City, Alexander Girard was one of the leading
figures of postwar American design, along with his close friends and
colleagues George Nelson and Charles & Ray Eames.The
primary focus of his wide-ranging oeuvre was textile design. Girard
created numerous fabrics for the Herman Miller Company, favouring
abstract forms and geometric patterns in a wide variety of colou ...
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