Vitra
Wooden Doll, 30 Variants
- Description
- Specifications
- The Designer
- The Maker
The Wooden Dolls by Alexander Girard are a large family of wooden figures representing human and animal characters. Girard designed them in 1952 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.
- Brand:Artek / Vitra
- Care:Care instructions included.
- SKU: VT-215-SET-28
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Material:
- Solid Fir, Hand Painted
- Packaging: High-quality wooden gift box with printed label, brochure included.
- Origin of wood: silver fir (Abies alba) from Western Europe and/or Poland.
- Designer:Alexander Girard
- Dimensions:
- No. 1 - W: 1.375" x D: 2" x H: 10.875"
- No. 2 - W: 1.75" x D: 1.75" x H: 7.25"
- No. 3 - W: 1.75" x D: 3.25" x H: 5.75"
- No. 4 - W: 1.75" x D: 3.25" x H: 10.625"
- No. 5 - W: 1.375" x D: 2" x H: 10.625"
- No. 6 - W: 1.75" x D: 2.75" x H: 6.875"
- No. 7 - W: 1.375" x D: 1.75" x H: 12"
- No. 8 - W: 1.625" x D: 2.75" x H: 8.25"
- No. 9 - W: 2.375" x D: 1.75" x H: 8"
- No. 10 - W: 3" x D: 1.75" x H: 6.25"
- No. 11 - W: 3" x D: 1.75" x H: 7.875"
- No. 12 - W: 3.25" x D: 1.75" x H: 7"
- No. 13 - W: 2.75" x D: 1.75" x H: 6.875"
- No. 14 - W: 2" x D: 1.75" x H: 10.25"
- No. 15 - W: 2.75" x D: 1.75" x H: 6"
- No. 16 - W: 1.75" x D: 1.375" x H: 9.875"
- No. 17 - W: 2.75" x D: 1.25" x H: 5.75"
- No. 18 - W: 2.875" x D: 1.875" x H: 6"
- No. 19 - W: 3" x D: 1.875" x H: 6"
- No. 20 - W: 2" x D: 1.75" x H: 9.25"
- No. 21 - W: 3" x D: 1.875" x H: 7.25"
- No. 22 - W: 1.75" x D: 1.375" x H: 9.25"
- Little Devil - W: 1.75" x D: 1.75" x H: 5.5"
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, favoring abstract forms and geometric patterns in a wide variety of color compositions. Many of his upholstery fabrics remain as timely and vital as ever and are still manufactured and utilized by Vitra today.
Having originally studied architecture, Girard made a name for himself over his long career in the fields of furniture, exhibition, interior and graphic design. Moreover, he was one of the world's most important collectors of folk art. The objects and textiles acquired by Girard on his extensive travels provided him with a rich source of inspiration and ideas. When Rolf Fehlbaum, the son of Vitra's founding family, first visited Alexander Girard and his wife Susan at their Santa Fe home in 1960, Fehlbaum wrote a letter to his parents telling of the deep impression it had made on him, and describing it as the most fascinating house he had ever seen in the United States.
Vitra and the Vitra Design Museum have devoted themselves to the reappraisal and revival of Alexander Girard's work over the past several years. The growing Girard collection in Vitra's product portfolio includes his painted Wooden Dolls, the Environmental Enrichment Panels and various furniture pieces and objects, along with his distinctive fabric designs.
After Alexander Girard's death in 1993, his heirs donated the Girard archive (comprising hundreds of drawings, prototypes and samples) to the Vitra Design Museum. In 2016/17, the museum mounted the exhibition 'Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe'.
The name Artek is a synthesis of "art" and 'technology'—concepts central to the international modernist movement that came to prominence in the 1920s. It was Walter Gropius, a key proponent of modernism, who coined the motto 'art and technology—a new unity.' Technology was understood to include science and industrial production methods, while the conception of art extended beyond the fine arts to encompass architecture and design. Modernism aimed to achieve a fruitful union of these two spheres. This same aspiration guided the founders of Artek in their naming of the company.
The Artek collection consists of furniture, lighting, and accessories designed by Finnish masters and leading international designers. It stands for clarity, functionality, and poetic simplicity.
virta. - Creating innovative products and concepts with great designers is Vitra's essence. They are developed in Switzerland and installed worldwide by architects, companies and private users to build inspirational spaces for living, working and shopping as well as public areas. With its classics Vitra represents groundbreaking 20th century design. Today, in combining technical and conceptual expertise with the creativity of contemporary designers, Vitra seeks to continue pushing the boundaries of the design discipline. A family business for eighty years, Vitra believes in lasting relationships with customers, employees and designers, durable products, sustainable growth and the power of good design.
