Nicolas girard typography biography of george
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Alexander Girard
Born in New York City and raised in Florence, Girard was educated in Europe as an architect. He began practicing architecture and interior design in the late s. The exhibition he curated for the Detroit Institute of Arts in —“For Modern Living”—celebrated postwar modernism. Girard developed a friendship with Charles Eames in the s when the two men realized they had coincidently designed almost identical modern radio cabinets and were both experimenting with plywood chairs.
Girard’s reputation soared in , when his zestful interior design of the La Fonda del Sol restaurant in New York electrified the public. He designed the entire experience for the restaurant—interior, graphics, place settings, staff uniforms. Girard reprised the feat for Braniff International Airways in the mid s, designing no less than 17, different items—from logo to lounge furniture.
Girard’s risky, sometimes iconoclastic fabrics were inspired not by a vision of the future but by a love of