Girard Bird
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In the mid-1940s experiments lived the designer Alexander Girard with a series of abstract glass sculptures foam rubber corrugated board driftwood plywood and solid wood including a bird figure made by hand from apple wood has been cut. These sculptures were made in July 1945 presented in American magazine Arts & Architecture. Today the original wooden bird preserved by the Vitra Design Museum as part of the Girard-archive. In close collaboration with the family Girard Vitra has this figure again brought to life: although the bird characteristics are kept to a minimum isn't it the silhouette of the Girard Bird clear recognizable. The archaic looking figure made of solid maple wood from France can stand on its legs or tail to stand. Together with his colleagues Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson was Alexander Girard one of the leading figures of post-war American design. Girard mainly focused on textile design but it also becomes renowned for his graphic work and his furniture exhibition and interior design throw. Material: solid maple wood (France).