'Names' Fabric Pillows Designed by Alexander Girard for Maharam- 5 Pieces

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Five 'Names' designed by Alexander Girard, the renown founding director of the Herman Miller Textile Division. These custom-ordered pillows from … Read more Five 'Names' designed by Alexander Girard, the renown founding director of the Herman Miller Textile Division. These custom-ordered pillows from Maharam, two crimson and three black on cream, have zipper covers and are filled with cotton batting and feathers. The Names fabric design features an abstract cursive type by Girard during his tenure at Herman Miller. The set includes four square pillows (12" W X 13" L X 5" D) and one long lumbar pillow (25" W X 12" D X 5" H. No maker's mark was found. The fabric and pillows are well documented by Maharam and Herman Miller.

'Names' pillows designed by Alexander Girard for Maharam (under license in 2002 with the Girard Studio. According to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Names was designed by Alexander Girard for Herman Miller in 1957. He used typography as pattern in many of his works by playfully mixing, transforming, and inventing fonts for whatever the project required. Sometimes he created entire alphabets while other times he designed only the letters needed for the specific words. In Names, the loops and curlicues continuously link the letters in four repeating lines, each with a set of names that were linked to Herman Miller employees. See less