Wooden Dolls
Alexander Girard designed these figures in 1952, not for a client or a brief, but for himself. They filled the rooms of his Santa Fe home with a warmth that no manufactured object could replicate, each one hand-carved and painted with the same folk-art instinct that ran through all of his work.
The originals remain in the Girard estate collection, held by the Vitra Design Museum. From those pieces, Vitra developed re-editions that follow every painted mark and carved contour without compromise. Human characters, animal forms, totemic silhouettes - the family is large, and no two figures are identical.
- Designed in 1952 for Girard's personal use in his Santa Fe home
- Re-editioned from originals in the Vitra Design Museum holdings
- Each figure fabricated and painted by hand
- Natural variation means every piece is genuinely one of a kind
Girard's sensibility sat at the intersection of modernism and folk tradition. These dolls carry that conversation forward, objects that feel at once archival and alive.
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Wooden Dolls
Alexander Girard designed these figures in 1952, not for a client or a brief, but for himself. They filled the rooms of his Santa Fe home with a warmth that no manufactured object could replicate, each one hand-carved and painted with the same folk-art instinct that ran through all of his work.
The originals remain in the Girard estate collection, held by the Vitra Design Museum. From those pieces, Vitra developed re-editions that follow every painted mark and carved contour without compromise. Human characters, animal forms, totemic silhouettes - the family is large, and no two figures are identical.
- Designed in 1952 for Girard's personal use in his Santa Fe home
- Re-editioned from originals in the Vitra Design Museum holdings
- Each figure fabricated and painted by hand
- Natural variation means every piece is genuinely one of a kind
Girard's sensibility sat at the intersection of modernism and folk tradition. These dolls carry that conversation forward, objects that feel at once archival and alive.
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Alexander Girard designed these figures in 1952, not for a client or a brief, but for himself. They filled the rooms of his Santa Fe home with a warmth that no manufactured object could replicate, each one hand-carved and painted with the same folk-art instinct that ran through all of his work.
The originals remain in the Girard estate collection, held by the Vitra Design Museum. From those pieces, Vitra developed re-editions that follow every painted mark and carved contour without compromise. Human characters, animal forms, totemic silhouettes - the family is large, and no two figures are identical.
- Designed in 1952 for Girard's personal use in his Santa Fe home
- Re-editioned from originals in the Vitra Design Museum holdings
- Each figure fabricated and painted by hand
- Natural variation means every piece is genuinely one of a kind
Girard's sensibility sat at the intersection of modernism and folk tradition. These dolls carry that conversation forward, objects that feel at once archival and alive.